What Andy said except I spell a certain word Bollocks.
Thanks for your reply MM. Another dictator on this forum 👍
Is it being so cheerful that keeps you going?
AndyBollox, the people in the West Midlands are some of the friendliest, most unassuming people going. Pretty hedgerows are great but our people are what make it special.
Mercia will rise again.
Rule from Wessex has failed. The time for Merxit is nigh.
TresorLuntalaYou mean Greater Birmingham?
As someone not originally from Birmingham, that's how I see and refer to the wider West Midlands metro area.
I know there's a reluctance to be lumped in with Birmingham from the likes of West Brom, Solihull, Sutton Coldfield etc, I personally as an outsider see all of these places as just Greater Birmingham.
London has Greater London, Manchester has Greater Manchester, I see no issue with using the term Greater Birmingham.
Worcestershire is not in the West Midlands
Wired and tearyWorcestershire is not in the West Midlands
It really is...
[www.smallheathalliance.com]
I think people are mixing up the West Midlands travel zones with the interpretation of the full region.
The hard to please Jonathan Meades writes quite well about our part of the world
[www.theoldie.co.uk] (Worcestershire, west of the Severn, is the loveliest part of England)
[thecritic.co.uk]
and his 90s Birmingham doc on Youtube is worth a watch.
West Midlands county should be called Greater Birmingham.
West Midlands region should be the Heart of England.
The hard to please Jonathan Meades writes quite well about our part of the world
[www.theoldie.co.uk] (Worcestershire, west of the Severn, is the loveliest part of England)
[thecritic.co.uk]
and his 90s Birmingham doc on Youtube is worth a watch.
You can't beat a good chunk of Jonathan Meades ... a beautiful writer of whom i seldom tire
His tv programmes are always lots of fun and stimulating too. Plus I think he has really good judgement.
The linked articles are v good.
Ricky BlottoWhilst I must admit to having a bit of a love/hate relationship with the city of Birmingham itself (sorry...), I honestly believe the West Mids is one of the best regions in the UK. Particularly Worcestershire, which I'm most familiar with.
It's a fantastic place to live, unrivalled transport links, loads of beautiful countryside, incredible restaurants, and some cracking towns and cities..and the people are ace; full of spirit and character.
Literally the only downsides I can think of, are we're a bit far from the sea, it's home to the vile (fannys), and our police force are tossers.
Anyway, I'm pissed, up the west mids.
I have a love/love relationship with the city of Birmingham: it's ace, and many many times better than the city of my youth (I'm 59). Great place to live and a great place to go out. Some very passable suburban centres (and plenty of crap areas too, I will admit). Sad to see some great pubs disappear over the years, but overall the trend feels like onwards and upwards to me. We're lucky to have our young vibrant community. I know it's not all perfect, but mostly it's sound. The wider West Midlands Region is great, esp. Shropshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire. My daughter seems to think that Coventry city centre is starting to get its act together. The Black Country metropolitan boroughs seem to have lost their identity to me. All sprawling dual carriageways and warehouse units.