Wesley Perrins was a lovely man and a good friend of my father. He lived in Lye and I recall chatting to him around 1980, not long before he died. I think he would be surprised at Lye in 2022. Also, I suspect that he was reading from a document he'd written out which was added to this film at the time. Just a guess however.
That accent is crazy. Stourbridge? Is that extinct or just idiosyncratic to him? It’s kinda Brum but with some West Country rhoticity and other alien pronunciations.
He mentions somewhere, perhaps another interview how he was sent to public speaking lessons which helped him to become an MP. Personally I think his accent is the result of both his Black Country roots as well elocution lessons to make him more easily understandable.
I have just googled him 😂he’s from Lye / Wollescote area in between Dudley and Stourbridge he was a trade unionist and Labour mp so probably adjusted his accent to be understandable 😩
Wesley Perrins was a lovely man and a good friend of my father. He lived in Lye and I recall chatting to him around 1980, not long before he died. I think he would be surprised at Lye in 2022. Also, I suspect that he was reading from a document he'd written out which was added to this film at the time. Just a guess however.
Love the use of the Welsh word 'hiraeth' which means a longing for your home area.
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What a fantastic video great job I’m proud to have come from the Black Country RG
love this from quarry bonk
He’s got a bit of Kiddy (Kidderminster) in there..!
Love this. I dred to think what he'd make of the lye today, terribly sad what a filthy ghetto its turned into.
Love my gornal
Im a Perrins .]
That accent is crazy. Stourbridge? Is that extinct or just idiosyncratic to him? It’s kinda Brum but with some West Country rhoticity and other alien pronunciations.
He mentions somewhere, perhaps another interview how he was sent to public speaking lessons which helped him to become an MP.
Personally I think his accent is the result of both his Black Country roots as well elocution lessons to make him more easily understandable.
I was born in Birmigham Loveday Street Hospital and raised in Tipton in a working class family. His accent doesn't sound Black Country to me.
Being bought up around the area it’s almost certainly between Dudley Cradley Lye Gornal accent but hard to pinpoint exactly
I have just googled him 😂he’s from Lye / Wollescote area in between Dudley and Stourbridge he was a trade unionist and Labour mp so probably adjusted his accent to be understandable 😩
It definitely does
Ar think he was just tryin t' spake proppa for the videow.