Love Your Neighbourhood visits St Georges in Telford

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00:00Tell me about St George's. Do you live here?

00:03I live here now, yeah. I'm originally from Mid Wales, which we're slough, you know.

00:09But yeah, it's a nice, quiet area. It is. I've only been here, what, six years, February, I'd say.

00:17Friendly?

00:18It is, yeah. It's quiet though, so people are friendly around here.

00:22I've heard quite a few people refer to St George's as sort of more like a village.

00:27Would you, does it feel villagey?

00:30I've never lived in a village, so I couldn't tell you.

00:33But it is a nice little area anyway.

00:35Is there much to do?

00:38Not in St George's itself, but when you go to town, there's plenty to do in town.

00:42So that kind of convenience of the location?

00:45Yeah, it's close to the train station and open gates and things like that.

00:49And you guys are the only Catholic, are you?

00:52We are in St George's, yes.

00:53Yeah, yeah.

00:54But there's more down the hill to Donington or like open gates and things like that.

00:58So you must have quite kind of a regular space?

01:01Yeah. Yeah, it's nice here.

01:03Yeah? People come in a lot for a chat?

01:05Yeah.

01:06Very chatty.

01:07Very, very chatty.

01:08Well, it's good.

01:09Any plans to go anywhere you hear for good?

01:11Hopefully I am, yeah. I don't live far, so hopefully I'll stay here.

01:15Which is good. Thank you so much.

01:16You're so welcome.

01:17You're in your local lab, Mick. What brought you to St George's?

01:20Um, St George's?

01:22Um, yeah, just the shop really. Just worked in, got a job in.

01:26Well, took the shop on.

01:28And 23 years you said?

01:3028 years.

01:3128 years. Wow.

01:32And loyal customers?

01:34Yeah, of course.

01:35And what are the people of St George's like?

01:38They're alright.

01:40Mostly alright, yeah.

01:43But, you know, it's good and bad everywhere. Good and bad in Wolverhampton.

01:47For sure.

01:48Um, a little more villagy than your, you know?

01:51I suppose so, yeah. A little bit more villagy, yeah, yeah.

01:55Is there lots to do?

01:57In St George's now, it's pretty quiet really, compared to Wolves, isn't it?

02:01It's not, it's not as, um, I don't know what the word is.

02:06It's just a bit more relaxed, innit?

02:08Hmm.

02:09I wouldn't move back then.

02:10No.

02:11Um, is that something you like about a kind of relaxed, quiet?

02:14Yeah.

02:15It suits me.

02:16It suits me at my age, you know.

02:18And Telford as a whole?

02:20You a fan?

02:21Not a fan?

02:22Yeah, I've been here a long time now, so yeah.

02:24It's, it's my home now.

02:25It's home now.

02:26Till I win big money, half a million on the lottery.

02:30We'll get an inherited house and, you know.

02:32Yeah.

02:33Take it with you.

02:34And sell it, you know, to, yeah.

02:36Um, and it's, it's quite a historic bit, St George.

02:38It's quite pretty.

02:39Is that something you enjoy about it?

02:41Yeah.

02:42It just, you ignore it after a bit, don't you?

02:44You just come to work, so, yeah, it's, it's, it's okay, innit?

02:48Yeah.

02:49It's not, I don't think it's quite, like, it's not as nice as Bridge North, is it?

02:52Or Shrewsbury, but it's okay.

02:54Hmm.

02:55It's a bit of what they've done to the gower down the road, but they should have knocked

02:58it down, if you ask me.

02:59Do you think?

03:00Well, I do, you know.

03:01All that money they've wasted.

03:02I'm not a fan of what, what's happening to it?

03:05No, I'm not, no.

03:06Well, they should have knocked it down in the first place.

03:08They'd have put more, put, put more houses on it than they's on it now, but.

03:12Um, well, there's quite a, quite a bit of kickback sometimes, isn't there, in St George's,

03:16when new housing development kind of happens, is that, but it sounds like you're all right.

03:21I've been everywhere though, isn't it?

03:22It doesn't matter where you go, you know, um, I did a lot of work during COVID.

03:27I was, uh, driving for Asda, so I've done a lot of driving around Shropshire.

03:31So, yeah, you see places, uh, estates springing up all over the place.

03:36That's nothing new, is it?

03:37You know, it's going to carry on, isn't it?

03:39And the government are quite happy to keep, um, keep building, giving permission to build these

03:45estates, so.

03:46And while you've been here for 28 years, how, how has St George's changed?

03:51The, the faces really, the names and, you know, the people change over the years.

03:56But my, my customers, uh, tend to be more, uh, mature customers.

04:00So it's always, uh, it's always a, you know, it's always a revolving door in it.

04:05There's always, always people, uh, shuffling off, but fortunately people are still having kids, so.

04:11You must have seen over those kind of almost 30 years, quite a few generations.

04:14Like, kids growing up?

04:16Yeah, yeah, still.

04:17I mean, some, some people stay with you, some don't.

04:19Sometimes the kids, uh, you know, when they get a bit older and they want a trendy haircut,

04:23they go to the turkeys.

04:25And then, uh, hopefully they come, they return sometime later.

04:28But, it's one of them things, isn't it?

04:30That's yeah.

04:31And you said, no plans to go, this is where you're at now?

04:34Well, I've just turned 60, so I think I'll probably stay here until I retire, so.

04:38Let's go.

04:39That'll do, it's wonderful.

04:40That'll do, it's wonderful.

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