Smethwick

[Rob]

I think we've had this topic before but i'm still confused.
Is there anyone from Smethwick on here? How do Smethwickians pronounce Smethwick?
I heard various pronounciations lately due to the fire and was curious to the correct one.

[Antie Em]

Rob - can't believe you have a problem here - it's called Smethick, you just drop the 'w' - or in black country I suppose Smerrick. Hell of a fire - it blocked out the sun for most of the day. All caused by a Chinese lantern landing on the plastics factory.

[MarkCDodd]

Mum and dad always drop the wubleya and have corrected me in the past for including it.

No sign of the rolling Rs though.

Might be because they have a bit of Brummie in them as well.

[Northern Lass]

Dreadful these lanterns I see loads of them flying past
shouldn't be allowed hey Sparks!

[Rob]

Rob - can't believe you have a problem here - it's called Smethick, you just drop the 'w' - or in black country I suppose Smerrick. Hell of a fire - it blocked out the sun for most of the day. All caused by a Chinese lantern landing on the plastics factory.

I never did have a problem and as a kid i said Smerrick but it seems it should be Smethick.I was just wondering if there was a real Smethwickian on here to solve it once and for all for me.Dt's from Handsworth so she wouldn't know.

[peterd]

Rob - can't believe you have a problem here - it's called Smethick, you just drop the 'w' - or in black country I suppose Smerrick. Hell of a fire - it blocked out the sun for most of the day. All caused by a Chinese lantern landing on the plastics factory.

I never did have a problem and as a kid i said Smerrick but it seems it should be Smethick.I was just wondering if there was a real Smethwickian on here to solve it once and for all for me.Dt's from Handsworth so she wouldn't know.

DT if you ever see him at a bcc do you want to bash him

[dudleytaylor]

Rob - can't believe you have a problem here - it's called Smethick, you just drop the 'w' - or in black country I suppose Smerrick. Hell of a fire - it blocked out the sun for most of the day. All caused by a Chinese lantern landing on the plastics factory.

I never did have a problem and as a kid i said Smerrick but it seems it should be Smethick.I was just wondering if there was a real Smethwickian on here to solve it once and for all for me.Dt's from Handsworth so she wouldn't know.

OH YES SHE DOES !. Just cause i was born in Handsworth don't mean i don't know , and you forget my mom was from Norman Road Oldbury ,and the other half was born in Bearwood .When I got married I lived in Broadway off the Wolverhampton Road till we moved to Hayley Green Halesowen , and my sister lives off Norman Road with her " Toy Boy" . Why am I telling you this I do go on Smethick thats how i pronounce it . Thats how all the brummies I know say it . Unless you're from Harborne or Solihull in which case you would probably pronounce the W to sound posh

[dudleytaylor]

Rob - can't believe you have a problem here - it's called Smethick, you just drop the 'w' - or in black country I suppose Smerrick. Hell of a fire - it blocked out the sun for most of the day. All caused by a Chinese lantern landing on the plastics factory.

I never did have a problem and as a kid i said Smerrick but it seems it should be Smethick.I was just wondering if there was a real Smethwickian on here to solve it once and for all for me.Dt's from Handsworth so she wouldn't know.

DT if you ever see him at a bcc do you want to bash him

I'm a bit naive, so I don't think I would get the joke

[Rob]

DT you lived on Broadway? Did you know Megan Beech? She lived halfway down the street on the right going down to Pottery Road.

[snoopysue]

Smethick thats how i pronounce it . Thats how all the brummies I know say it . Unless you're from Harborne or Solihull in which case you would probably pronounce the W to sound posh

Maybe they don't know any better

[dudleytaylor]

DT you lived on Broadway? Did you know Megan Beech? She lived halfway down the street on the right going down to Pottery Road.

No Rob ,I didn't know her,we lived on the left next door to a lorry driver who use to bring his vehicle home and his wife a hairdresser who had shop going towards Smethwick via Norman Road .I lived there in 1971,and when I was having our first child in 1974 we left for Halesowen ,My hubbies mom lived in Lewis Road his father had just died , thats why we lived there . We were at Thimblemill recreation club a couple of weeks ago at my sisters partners birthday . I am hoping to go to Rood End cemetery soon to find my moms family . Most of them are buried in there.

[peterd]

DT you lived on Broadway? Did you know Megan Beech? She lived halfway down the street on the right going down to Pottery Road.

No Rob ,I didn't know her,we lived on the left next door to a lorry driver who use to bring his vehicle home and his wife a hairdresser who had shop going towards Smethwick via Norman Road .I lived there in 1971,and when I was having our first child in 1974 we left for Halesowen ,My hubbies mom lived in Lewis Road his father had just died , thats why we lived there . We were at Thimblemill recreation club a couple of weeks ago at my sisters partners birthday . I am hoping to go to Rood End cemetery soon to find my moms family . Most of them are buried in there.

i have quite a few photo of roods end cemetary oldbury side still got the smethwick side to do about 1,500 to 1,600 hi san

[Rob]

There's an Oldbury and a Smethwick side at Rood End Cemetery ?
Who's told you that?

[peterd]

There's an Oldbury and a Smethwick side at Rood End Cemetery ?
Who's told you that?

when i enquire about why two side to the rood end cemetary originally i was told catholic ( small side) and prodestant (large side) got talking to someone working in the cemetary and he told me the other side of the road use to belong to smethwick so im asuming the road was an early boundry between oldbury and smethwick ?

[peterd]

just been looking and found this

The cemetery originally featured two chapels, the one just demolished on the 'unconsecrated' side of the road, and a similar chapel taken down many years ago on the Anglican 'consecrated' side

so a anglican consecrated and an unconsecrated side for the rest of use

or this

One or two minor corrections on the geography quoted in the past week, Rood End road came up from Birmingham Rd. and turned away from the cemetery to Rood End (actually seen as Rude End on some older maps). The road between the cemetery was Cemetery Road, which changed to St.Pauls Rd. at the Smethwick border which ran through the cemetery at that point.

The two halves of the cemetery were designated "Church" & "Chapel" ie C.of.E & Non-conformist, so it would be normal for R.C. burials to be on the church side.

so both could be right ? as just behind the small cemetary is west smethwick park