Love Your Neighbourhood: Penkridge

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Our Love Your Neighbourhood feature lands in the pretty village of Penkridge.

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00:00So Jodie, Jodie if you don't mind saying where we are, promote the shop a little bit obviously.

00:09We're at Trudy's Sweet Shop in Pankridge.

00:11Fantastic, so what's it like going in there? Because obviously this is a very popular shop, loads of people love it.

00:17What's it like being on the high streets?

00:19It's lovely, people get to park outside to be able to come in, so it's good to have parking outside.

00:25And then all the local villagers come in and we get people from further afield as well.

00:30Fantastic, so I was going to say what are we doing here then?

00:33But obviously it's Rangus Weeks and Kitchen Sinks, Kitchen Sinks, you know, your sweets and whatnot.

00:39So we always ask the question, but if there's one thing that you could pick out of Pankridge that you like the most, what do you reckon?

00:45Jaspers.

00:46Jaspers.

00:50I'll tell you what, Jaspers is quite well known, you know.

00:53Jaspers is popular.

00:54Jaspers is popular.

00:55Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

00:56So you also do, I mean, there's also a strong link with celebrity around here, isn't there?

01:00We've had...

01:01We've had Basil Brosh, we've had Vigo Ven.

01:04For some reason the celebrities love Pankridge obviously.

01:07They do.

01:08So what about Pankridge Market, big favourite as well, top three things in the area, Pankridge Market?

01:13Pankridge Market's up there, definitely attracts a lot of people in and then obviously they come to the sweet shop.

01:18That's fantastic.

01:19Yeah, it's one of the busier days of the market days.

01:21Brilliant.

01:22So brilliant people, brilliant customers, brilliant market.

01:24Brilliant customers and it's just a very friendly place to live and work at.

01:28That's fantastic, thank you very much.

01:29So you're exchanging.

01:30So you said you might have been here for what 12 months, was it?

01:34It was about 12 months to say?

01:35And the Isle of Wight.

01:36Uh, here.

01:37Oh here, 12 months, yeah.

01:3812 months, yeah.

01:39So where did you live before?

01:40Isle of Wight.

01:41Isle of Wight.

01:42And also previously Germany as well.

01:43Germany a year ago, yeah.

01:44So, gotta ask the question.

01:46Yeah?

01:47Pankridge better than a lot of them.

01:49Can't beat the Isle of Wight.

01:51Can't beat the Isle of Wight.

01:53No, that's fantastic, that's fantastic.

01:55Obviously nice place, doesn't compare to the Isle of Wight though.

01:57Yeah.

01:58I mean, what do you like last time?

01:59Have you been here in Tarkman so far?

02:01I like the people actually.

02:03People?

02:04Yes.

02:05Probably people.

02:06They are, yeah.

02:07Ah, fantastic.

02:08Nice talkative people.

02:09It is, they're very very friendly as well.

02:10I've got to say, the High Street as well, it's sort of like, it's sort of, it's very, it feels very different.

02:14And you've got the market as well.

02:15Yeah, the market as well.

02:17Renowned market down here.

02:18Oh it is, yeah.

02:19And you sometimes get some famous places.

02:21We had Basil Brush down here the other week.

02:22Oh, did they?

02:23Yeah, we had Basil Brush down here the other week.

02:25Yeah, you know the guy off the line, you know the guy before the high business on Britain's Got Talent.

02:29And down here as well.

02:30Really?

02:31Yeah.

02:32To say for the stars.

02:33Yeah.

02:34So, if you could pick one of your favourite things, the one favourite thing, other than people,

02:37like Penbridge, what do you reckon it would be?

02:39Markets?

02:40Market?

02:41High Street?

02:42I like the markets out there.

02:44Markets.

02:45I do like the markets.

02:46I think that's going to be everyone's decision in the market.

02:49That's fantastic.

02:50Yeah.

02:51Right, so we're here with Phil.

02:52Phil, have a good, good weather for people.

02:54Hello.

02:55Good weather for Penbridge, isn't it?

02:56You know?

02:57It's blooming beautiful indeed.

02:58Always carry a brolly.

02:59Just in case.

03:00Smart man.

03:01Smart man.

03:02So, what's your history here then?

03:03What's your history here?

03:04How long have you been living here for?

03:05I started here in 1970.

03:071970.

03:08Got married in 1970.

03:09And moved to our first house here.

03:11Since then we've had five or six houses in Penbridge.

03:16Gradually moving up.

03:17And then as I got older, gradually moving down, you know.

03:20Man of the area.

03:21And so, yeah, I've been here, what, 56 years.

03:25Brilliant.

03:26So, over the 56 years, ask it every time.

03:28It's a question of the day.

03:29If you could pick one thing that's the best thing in the area, what do you reckon it is?

03:33The village life.

03:35The village life.

03:36I mean, look at it.

03:37I know, I know if you own one of the shops, you're going to say, we don't want it quiet.

03:41But it's lovely and quiet.

03:43Yeah.

03:44And it's safe.

03:45You can come out and you can walk out at night and feel safe, you know.

03:50Okay, we get the odd little spot of bother, but who doesn't?

03:53The youngsters have got to grow up, haven't they?

03:55Well, it's very different.

03:56It's very different from like, you know, your city-based, your city-based area.

04:00I was brought up and spent my childhood, should we say, in Wolverhampton.

04:04Okay, yeah.

04:05So, you know, but you, even in those days, you didn't want to stop in town much after half past 10.

04:11Now you're sick of houses, yeah.

04:13It's nice to say that.

04:14And there's some good pubs.

04:15So, village life.

04:16That's what you want.

04:17So, village life, yeah.

04:18Now, if you could pick, because you've been here for a while now, yeah.

04:20Yeah.

04:21So, you obviously know the shops, yeah.

04:22Pick one shop.

04:23Somebody from out of Pankridge is coming to visit.

04:24If you're going to point them in any direction at one shop, what do you reckon it would be?

04:27Oh, dear.

04:28Okay.

04:29It could be a shop, it could be a pub.

04:30It could be a pub, it could be a shop, it could be whichever you like.

04:32Well, at the moment, I'd send them down the jockey.

04:34The jockey?

04:35You know, which has not long been done out, actually, and they've made a fantastic job of

04:39it.

04:40It really is good.

04:41On this weather as well, huh?

04:42Nice cider.

04:43Lovely garden outside.

04:44And if you go just up here and round the corner, there's another pub.

04:48Right.

04:49No, the White Hart's down there.

04:52It's well, well to do for pubs.

04:54Oh, that's fantastic.

04:55And it's nice.

04:56But the shops, yeah.

04:57There's nothing you can't get here, if you really want it, you know.

05:01Because most people like they do go to the big supermarkets to do their weekly shop.

05:07But most of the essentials, you can get here.

05:10So, obviously, you've got a very prestigious market, you know.

05:13Very popular market.

05:14Oh, Penkridge Market.

05:15Do you visit them much?

05:16Do you go much?

05:17Oh, yeah, every week.

05:18Yeah.

05:19You know, like, yesterday was Bank Holiday, and I always have a car boot sale there on

05:23Bank Holiday, and they had the market on there.

05:25And if you've got the weather, it's a lovely half day out, and people come from miles to

05:30go to Penkridge Market.

05:31It's well known.

05:32If I go, I was up north a couple of weeks ago, and they said, where are you from?

05:36I said, oh, Penkridge, all right.

05:37And they all say, great market.

05:38Penkridge Market.

05:39Yeah, we've got a market, you know.

05:41We've had it for, I think, about a thousand years now, you know.

05:46And supermarkets have tried to build on there and get planning permission, but some king

05:52from a thousand years ago says, no, no, no, no supermarkets.

05:55So you're not looking for a house anywhere else anytime soon?

05:58No, no, no.

05:59We're quite happy where we are.

06:00That's fantastic.

06:01You know, we might sell it and spend the grandkids' inheritance.

06:05Well, there you go.

06:06For any potential buyers, you know, nice three bedroom house there in Penkridge.

06:11That's nice, yes, yes, yes.

06:12That's brilliant.

06:13Thank you very much.

06:14You're welcome.

06:15That's fantastic.

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