I cry when I see dudley and other towns have become

I was 14 when this was filmed, how sad the decline of Dudley over the years...

We went to Dudley a few weeks ago it looks like a different country now

Just wonderful. Just how I remember it as a kid! The bustling marketplace compared to now, has made me feel quite sad.

My first trip to Dudley Castle was in 1987. Great memories ❤

This was so nostalgic to watch.

I remember it like this as a kid. Great memories ❤

Live in Dudley it's definitely not quite the same place it used to my nan used to take me and my friend to Dudley Zoo I'm my school holidays happy days

This was 10 years before I was born but still a nice video to be able to watch

I am from Iran , I studied my degree in Birmingham 78 to 82 and though I visited a lot of places in UK my knowledge about Dudly was next to zero and missed this wonderfull musume. What a pitty. Great video.

I worked on the zoo when it was a part of the zoo federation and Mr Grace was the Director It went down after he left

@karpetcabin

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When did the elephants disappear?

Many memories there!!!!! tears in my eyes!

My home town but thankfully now live in Yorkshire. Dudley has gone seriously downhill in the last decade

An unbelievable watch, the year I was born. Thank you posting this

I remember when this Day Out series was presented by David St John Howell who was a dear friend and boozing pal of mine.

Really enjoyed this video.I was a guide at the Black Country museum now living in Cumbria. Brought back many memories

I visited the Museum in the 90's with my very young children and it was like being in my old Street of Oldbury.

This is awesome, being from Dudley originally

what is not mentioned is the earl of dudley's staue originally faced overlooking his lands down castle hill, but after his great debts and betrayal of the dudley people his staue was turned up towards the town with his back on his beloved black country. He left hundreds of open mine shafts which the council had to pay to have capped and a whole lot more not mapped and still today opening up like the one which did at back of my junior school in tividale and the one in centre of main rd from dudley to oldbury.

Most birthdays were a trip to the zoo in the 80's for me

Rip the Hippodrome

@Wench64

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Yes we miss that land mark, I went passed and saw they were knocking it down I cried, dudley in the 70s and 80s was the best of times, so sad now

40 years ago, unbelievable!

Nice!!!

Poor animals.

Theres nothing like that now Dudley is dead almost 😮

its 800 too 900 ft up how would they have got plenty of water up there to tackle the fire in them days regardless of suspected gun powder storage any thoughts

i remember goin to the zoo around 10 yrs ago....there was barely any animals in it ha...wasnt the same as when i went when i was a kid prob around same yr as this video...

@hogwashmcturnip8930

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That is rather the point? The zoo now is dedicated to helping endangered species, not collecting them like pokemon cards and shoving them into totally unsuitable enclosures. Most of us prefer it that way. You come across like a bit of a museum exhibit yourself, to be honest.

@hitchannel7777

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@@hogwashmcturnip8930 Spot on, I 'm glad this is the way forward.

She made a pig’s ear out of that bread!

Still mostly looks the same...just less people shopping...a LOT less...

A crime what the planners have did to that town. The Zoo, however, I took my daughter there when she was about 9'years old and have never visited another, & neither has she, or her, now grown up, children. It was awful, like Victorian visitors to an insane asylum to look at depresives.

I’m glad that remaining zoos (which should be banned - much better to have safari parks especially for large mammals) are larger than they used to be with more to occupy these poor animals who, on this clip, look thoroughly bored and under fed.

Dudley council ruined the zoo Councils ruin everything

@karpetcabin

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How did they ruin it?

@charleslucas5930

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@@karpetcabin well when Mr Grace left it was sold to Scotia Investments an entertainment company.A load of wide boys. The killer whale Cuddles was brought in poor devil did his tricks in a small pool. He died his stomach was full of ulcers. I’m not sure when the elephant ts left. They got the zoo into a bad state The Council took it over. It was then dying on its legs and now you have got what’s left.Councils can never run anything properly.

@charleslucas5930

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@@user-sc3ts6lf8r The staff who worked truly loved the animals and devoted their lives to them

Ts ...

still looks the same