Julie Gray (Ted's daughter) was sitting at my old desk lol it was my 1st eva poppa job when i left school £75 a week 1990 i worked with Edward Jnr (Ed) he used to crack me up cuz he cud neva find me lol It's great to see sum of the original folk still there Bonnie..Jill..Joanne..John..Ray..Dave..Christine..Sue..Mark..think i saw Maureen T..xx still all wearing of them finger prints on the griddles lol they put my name in the rock once :) Xmas was great . Ted supplied all the alcohol & the men used to nick it all ;( so i used to pop ova the road to the dentist to Diane and get pie eyed ova there xx GUD TIMES ;) Long Live Ted & Betty Gray :)
Growing up around whiteheath/lion farm estate we used to go up oakham and walk to Dudley and Coseley baths in the summer holidays. I remember the smell of Teddy Grays mixed with the old Brewery up by top church. Magical.
Absolutely brilliant! I have always loved 'erballs since I was a kid and it would be terrible if this company ever changed. Keep it how it is...wonderful film and people!
This is really awe-inspiring! Love the calendars in the background - Mr. Gray with the woman in the bikini and the woman with the bare-chested man. :) Nice to see a film about something so positive and downright like-able instead of the typical documentary films focusing on war, poverty, drug addiction, etc...
Stephen fry brought me here.... And I'm so glad he did! What an AMAZING place. I dare Google them to see if they're still in business as it would break my heart if they got swept away by more modern businesses. Now, off to buy a stick of rock.
Love em and I will love teddy grays sweets till the day I die I now live in Doncaster but I get my brother to post me some every fortnight as he shops in Dudley and always calls in the castle for a pint and teddy’s for our sweets 🍬 quality our kid 👍👍
I just bought some Gray’s Herbal Tablets and by coincidence up popped this documentary. I’m just hoping that the company is still being run along similar lines. It would be wonderful to think that this wonderful business continues to flourish. My favourites have always been toffee bonbons. Love their shop and goodies. Hope they go on forever.
Brilliant! I really miss these sweets (I'm diabetic now) but I remember loving just about everything they sold. The herbal tablets were amazing, and thankfully I *can* still have an ice cream every so often. I just wish they made sugar-free sweets -- plenty of other traditional places do them now, so come on Teddy Grays! You'd get my money for sure!
@@DJenerate Yeah, I was in Bewdley recently and they do too. Trouble is they're extremely expensive, getting on for two quid for 100g. Warmans in Worcester does sugar free sweets for much less, so I go there now.
This is old fashioned quality love for their business that brings pure love and joy without the dumbing down and anxiety provoking that some modern technologies have created in people's lives!
I hope they are online. I would very much like to order some sweets, and break a tooth, from this wonderful company. Just look at them. Beautiful. Old. Amazing
I used to live by the van driver they interviewed. He used the van to go home in. Whenever you walked passed it it always smelled of herbal tablets from 10ft away!
That was the place for sweets and ice creams. Loved that store like so many others. I must say that I was surprised to see that some of the people did not wear disposable gloves when handling the rock etc.
Wow she’s a human calculator 😮 the way she can handle all the numbers just in her head! That’s incredible, a true asset to any company, can’t believe how long ago this was filmed tho, I hope it’s still the same old same old, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it!
"so you're redundant!" looool very friendly interviewer!! Great business. Great footage and amazing subjects. But Bad questions by an apathic interviewer. Having said that, I'm off to buy maself some Teddy Grey sweets!
Don't know anyone who doesn't like them,I'm eating a pack of herbals right now,you got to keep buying these ,don't let another uk company close down,they need our support,maybe our kids will be able to enjoy them when their older too.
This is the most famous company in the Black Country but not only that it developed its own famous black county suck and this business is a family owned business not owed by council at all also its sweets date back to Victorian years
Just bought a large container of your small pear drops. Delicious. Had them shipped to my mother, who will send them to me in Georgia, USA.
Julie Gray (Ted's daughter) was sitting at my old desk lol it was my 1st eva poppa job when i left school £75 a week 1990 i worked with Edward Jnr (Ed) he used to crack me up cuz he cud neva find me lol It's great to see sum of the original folk still there Bonnie..Jill..Joanne..John..Ray..Dave..Christine..Sue..Mark..think i saw Maureen T..xx still all wearing of them finger prints on the griddles lol they put my name in the rock once :) Xmas was great . Ted supplied all the alcohol & the men used to nick it all ;( so i used to pop ova the road to the dentist to Diane and get pie eyed ova there xx GUD TIMES ;) Long Live Ted & Betty Gray :)
Lovely to see an old fashioned business still surviving in the 21st century. I love their sweets!
Such a lovely film about a wonderful company
Growing up around whiteheath/lion farm estate we used to go up oakham and walk to Dudley and Coseley baths in the summer holidays. I remember the smell of Teddy Grays mixed with the old Brewery up by top church. Magical.
Happiest place in my life into Teddy Grays 1961 after being at the cubs.
Black country folk are the best.
You can't beat old-fashioned sweets. Sweets to all the sweeties at Teddy Gray's.
Well done Martin, and thanks to all who featured, so much to enjoy.
such a sweet little film .long may they carry on doing what they do and never change a thing
Absolutely brilliant! I have always loved 'erballs since I was a kid and it would be terrible if this company ever changed. Keep it how it is...wonderful film and people!
***** ...uck off yow!
I remember going on a school visit when I was 14. 1961. The smell was wonderful.
Magnificent! What a wonderful documentary and so Martin Parr.
This was fascinating!
Loved this short film. It looks like a company full of good values in many ways. I didn't think places like this were around anymore. Fantastic!
This is really awe-inspiring! Love the calendars in the background - Mr. Gray with the woman in the bikini and the woman with the bare-chested man. :) Nice to see a film about something so positive and downright like-able instead of the typical documentary films focusing on war, poverty, drug addiction, etc...
Stephen fry brought me here.... And I'm so glad he did!
What an AMAZING place. I dare Google them to see if they're still in business as it would break my heart if they got swept away by more modern businesses.
Now, off to buy a stick of rock.
Alan Pender it still going strong pal
Still going strong mate the factory and the shop
Just brought some sweets from the shop today!
I can buy pear drops when I attend Leighton hospital, but rarely. I’d buy more if I could. Wish I could buy from supermarkets
Love em and I will love teddy grays sweets till the day I die I now live in Doncaster but I get my brother to post me some every fortnight as he shops in Dudley and always calls in the castle for a pint and teddy’s for our sweets 🍬 quality our kid 👍👍
I just bought some Gray’s Herbal Tablets and by coincidence up popped this documentary. I’m just hoping that the company is still being run along similar lines. It would be wonderful to think that this wonderful business continues to flourish. My favourites have always been toffee bonbons. Love their shop and goodies. Hope they go on forever.
absolutely hypnotizing
Superb, long may they reign.
This was a fantastic watch. What an amazing story, and indeed factory!
Brilliant! I really miss these sweets (I'm diabetic now) but I remember loving just about everything they sold. The herbal tablets were amazing, and thankfully I *can* still have an ice cream every so often. I just wish they made sugar-free sweets -- plenty of other traditional places do them now, so come on Teddy Grays! You'd get my money for sure!
They had a sign saying they now have sugar free sweets available when I popped to their shop in Dudley yesterday.
@@DJenerate Yeah, I was in Bewdley recently and they do too. Trouble is they're extremely expensive, getting on for two quid for 100g. Warmans in Worcester does sugar free sweets for much less, so I go there now.
Marvelous.
I feel refreshed after watching this and i don´t even like sweets.
Just another classic from Martin Parr.
Faith restored,simply wonderful
Love their herbal sweets 😍😍😍
Fabulous story, so well told.
An absolute delight to view.
Thank you
Best sweets ever - Ice cream to die for!
A lovely film
Amazing!
This is old fashioned quality love for their business that brings pure love and joy without the dumbing down and anxiety provoking that some modern technologies have created in people's lives!
Wow proper old school sweets great to watch :)
This is great, Can't believe everything is so mechanical and anti-digital
I really enjoyed it and the sweets.
fantastic and the little things 😀
Lovely little film.
I hope they are online. I would very much like to order some sweets, and break a tooth, from this wonderful company. Just look at them. Beautiful. Old. Amazing
I love this factory and there sweets and there shop so tasty and ye it’s good old Victorian sweets
soo sweet
I used to live by the van driver they interviewed. He used the van to go home in. Whenever you walked passed it it always smelled of herbal tablets from 10ft away!
i dig this
When will teddy Grays Dudley be opened up again it was sad to see closed all through this stupid virus
I love how the jug of red colouring has never been washed.
Just ordered some Grey's herbal sweets.
That was the place for sweets and ice creams. Loved that store like so many others. I must say that I was surprised to see that some of the people did not wear disposable gloves when handling the rock etc.
My mom worked for em for 30 odd years
Amazing video. It's a shame they'll probably have to modernize at some point. It's nice to know some companies haven't changed in decades.
1826 the famous date and creation of teddy grays factory
reminds me of a sweet factory in BLACKHEATH (B'HAM) MR.& MRS Harris used to own it.. rock and sweets is in here, sad when it closed
RIP teddy and berty
2:18 where can i get a calendar?
Best sweets ever
Wow she’s a human calculator 😮 the way she can handle all the numbers just in her head! That’s incredible, a true asset to any company, can’t believe how long ago this was filmed tho, I hope it’s still the same old same old, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it!
Excuse the pun, but that was sweet!
lol at the calendar.
wow...
Where?
The smell of herbals fills kates hill when they make them
@@oberonstringweed3344 who needs a covid vaccine get some teddy grays herbals down ya 😂👌
@@oberonstringweed3344 definitely 👌
want to work here want to try all the goodies which is a shame they are not on the net or i would go order right away lol
WITHAAHT A DAAHT THE BEST SUCK IN THE COUNTRY
"so you're redundant!" looool very friendly interviewer!!
Great business. Great footage and amazing subjects. But Bad questions by an apathic interviewer.
Having said that, I'm off to buy maself some Teddy Grey sweets!
Herbal tablets are good and the pips sweets are grate on flavour
Upthumb if you saw this on Kottke
Don't know anyone who doesn't like them,I'm eating a pack of herbals right now,you got to keep buying these ,don't let another uk company close down,they need our support,maybe our kids will be able to enjoy them when their older too.
Does anybody remember Orchard sweets from Blackheath?
I've gotta go out and buy some suck now!!
Herbal tablets my favorites sweets.
It's a shame Orchard Confectionery aren't still about.
And yow cor get na sweet like Teddy grays does them
This is the most famous company in the Black Country but not only that it developed its own famous black county suck and this business is a family owned business not owed by council at all also its sweets date back to Victorian years
Stephen Fry brought me here
Bostin
I notice that ones were use in there hands with out gloves not good
Lets all have dental cavities!
The rock don’t taste very nice sorry guys just didn’t enjoy them