Brierley Hill and Dudley are pretty much no go areas, they've always been rough but theyre at a different level now, Lye and Cradley were good old fashioned black country places, salt of the earth people, Lye as been taken over by curry houses and barbers, you wouldn't go for a beer there but at one time it had some of the best boozers around, all the problems have one common denominator, unfortunately
Fairly sure when I was about eight, my parents were together but skint we stayed in Dudley and did a mini holiday going to Cadbury World and some other stuff nearby. Probably the last straw before the divorce if my dad came up with that idea and rightly so.