Where do you come from they say,not often though because my broad accent gives it away.I am a 'brummie', well almost.
When I read your lovely postings I realise how fortunate I have been.
I was born in 1942 in the Staffordshire moorlands.My childhood was spent in the countryside,we wanted for nothing.My Dad worked down the pits,(wages and free coal.)We bought produce from farms,my mothers father was a butcher so her family was quite 'well off'.
When I was 8years old my Dad decided that he didn't want to crawl on his belly underground for the rest of his life so he would become a policeman.
At 5ft 9in he was too short to join the local force(have you seen the size of some of the policemen nowadays)so he came to Birmingham and we followed a year later.
Dad had a good job and we had a lovely three bedroom,modern house rent free.We were never a rich family but we did not suffer any hardships.
My Potteries accent soon disappeared and I became a brummie.
I feel just as proud of this City and its history as anyone who was born here,so much so that I could not imagine living very far from where i can hear the brummie accent.
Are there any more,almost brummies,out there that feel the way that I do.
Incidently my mother never lost her accent and always referred to the moorlands as 'home'.
When I read your lovely postings I realise how fortunate I have been.
I was born in 1942 in the Staffordshire moorlands.My childhood was spent in the countryside,we wanted for nothing.My Dad worked down the pits,(wages and free coal.)We bought produce from farms,my mothers father was a butcher so her family was quite 'well off'.
When I was 8years old my Dad decided that he didn't want to crawl on his belly underground for the rest of his life so he would become a policeman.
At 5ft 9in he was too short to join the local force(have you seen the size of some of the policemen nowadays)so he came to Birmingham and we followed a year later.
Dad had a good job and we had a lovely three bedroom,modern house rent free.We were never a rich family but we did not suffer any hardships.
My Potteries accent soon disappeared and I became a brummie.
I feel just as proud of this City and its history as anyone who was born here,so much so that I could not imagine living very far from where i can hear the brummie accent.
Are there any more,almost brummies,out there that feel the way that I do.
Incidently my mother never lost her accent and always referred to the moorlands as 'home'.