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Black Country Day celebrates the region’s history, but does that identity still matter today? We visited Stourbridge to ask local people whether pride in the Black Country remains as strong as ever.

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00:01I think it's probably, in certain parts it's falling, but in the core areas, then it's probably still there.
00:10If you go to Bathurst pubs and other places like that, you'll see that there's a good, good core of
00:16black country people in there.
00:18So black country people tend to stay together.
00:23The black country's dying out. I'm afraid it's dying out.
00:26Yes, yes. It isn't like it used to be.
00:30No, the old characters aren't there. It's changing, totally changing.
00:35We're, what, simply odd, and we've seen some changes.
00:39It's massive what you see. Well, you can see it in the local area as well, can't you?
00:44It's not what it used to be.
00:46It's our country. It won't die up at all.
00:52I like the idea of the flagship, giving it a bit more community.
00:56It is dying, though. It's been ruled out, hasn't it, by them or both.
01:00All the local shops seem to be closing down and all that, don't they?
01:04They're phasing them out, aren't they?
01:05Yeah, you've got to go to the Mary Hill centres and all that. You want your stuff.
01:09To be fair, I think it's the same as everywhere.
01:12Everywhere's identity is dropping, to be quite honest.
01:15Starbridge is still quite massively black country compared to some of the places around black country.
01:20There's pros and cons. I think, you know, we're definitely out and about there.
01:24So, like, Peaky Blinders, obviously, that's, like, you know, made people a bit more aware of what's going on around
01:28the black country and things like that.
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