The last of the foundry men.
Meet foundry man Bob Wright, also my dad, as he breaks from his taciturn humdrum and through just two evocative photographs he recollects with vivid description yet melancholy anecdote as being a skilled Black Country foundry man.
Recorded over the xmas break, I want this excerpt to be reworked with new footage, interviews and archive for a worker’s heritage documentary titled The Last of the Foundry Men.
Paul Wright
Martin Parr at Teddy Gray’s Sweet Factory Documentary.
Magnum photographer Martin Parr returns to working with moving images in this wonderfully engaging documentary about Teddy Gray’s sweet factory in Dudley.
Anna Keay on Berthold Lubetkin at Dudley Zoo
The Tecton practice’s zoo buildings at Dudley zoo introduced modernism to a mass audience and attained a degree of popularity and face-to-face exposure that other architects could only have dreamed of.
Give It some Ommer, 1984.
Fabulous documentary Form 1984 where 5 kids in 1984 take a look around the Black Country where they live and look at all aspects of life.
Turks Head Pub, 1960’s.
The clientele of The Turks Head Pub, Brierley Hill. The film shows a fascinating insight into pub culture and community as it was then.
Dudley Bus Station
Old super 8 camera footage of Dudley Bus station, January 1978
Crooked Houses of Dudley. 1940
Pathe News take A look at the crooked houses in Dudley caused by subsidence from mine works.
Robert Plant interviewed for The Tube TV show at JB’s, Dudley.
The former Led Zeppelin frontman interviewed by Jools Holland on The Tube 1982 / 83 at JBs Club., Dudley.
Dudley words and phrases with Korean Billy.
Korean student Billy films himself copying the Dudley accent and explaining popular phrases and words from across the region.