Reporter for the Express & Star based at Wolverhampton.Browse the businesses in your area and find what is perfect for you.If you are searching for a job around your local area, use our online system.Sorry, we are not accepting comments on this article. Originally in March, the day was later moved to 14 July – the anniversary of the invention of the The Black Country Anthem was written by James Stevens and is performed by Black Country band The Empty Can. The community can really get together on Black Country Day and be proud of where they live and celebrate." The heavy industry which once dominated the Black Country has now largely gone. The banner has now become the Black Country Flag and was designed by schoolgirl Gracie Sheppard. This special day shall be missed greatly." It is quite common for broad Black Country speakers to say "'agooin'" where others say "going." Areas around the canals (the cut) which had mines extracting mineral resources and heavy industry refining these are included in this definition. Put together, "Ah just sid a Goost, so Ah'm a gooin to sit on mah sofie and 'ave a fake" (I have just seen a ghost, so I am going to sit upon my sofa and have a cigarette) And even the animals at Dudley Zoo are joining in with the Black Country Day celebrations – including Reggie the Linne’s two-toed sloth who has been spotted with his Black Country flag. This ridge forms part of a major watershed of England with streams to the north taking water to the At Dudley and Wrens Nest, limestone was mined. Cultural parameters include unique or characteristic foods such as Another geological definition, the seam outcrop definition, only includes areas where the coal seam is shallow making the soil black at the surface. From the 19th century onwards, the area gained widespread notoriety for its hellish appearance, a depiction that made its way into the published works of the time. Meanwhile a pair of performers will be keeping the celebrations going despite the festival being cancelled this year. It is a community event which helps celebrate our heritage and the festivals around it are about showing each other what our communities mean and making people proud of where they have come from." Black Country dialect often uses "ar" where other parts of England use "yes" (this is common as far away as Yorkshire). We'm say Tah-Ra a bit, 'n to dem, it sound like we'm calling dem rabbits." The pleasant green of pastures is almost unknown, the streams, in which no fishes swim, are black and unwholesome; the natural dead flat is often broken by high hills of cinders and spoil from the mines; the few trees are stunted and blasted; no birds are to be seen, except a few smoky sparrows; and for miles on miles a black waste spreads around, where furnaces continually smoke, steam engines thud and hiss, and long chains clank, while blind gin horses walk their doleful round. Food may be called "fittle" (after victuals or "vittles"), so "Bostin fittle" is "good food". The first trace of the phrase "The Black Country" as an expression dates from the 1840s.The 14-mile (23 km) road between Wolverhampton and Birmingham was described as "one continuous town" in 1785.The Black Country has no single set of defined boundaries.

According to the Government's 2007 Index of Deprivation (ID 2007), Sandwell is the third most deprived authority in the West Midlands region, after Birmingham and As with many urban areas in the UK, there is also a significant ethnic minority population in parts: in Sandwell, 22.6 per cent of the population are from ethnic minorities, and in Wolverhampton the figure is 23.5 per cent. Derek Grove, Dudley Zoo director, said: "Where better to show off our Black Country colours with pride and celebrate our bostin’ heritage than atop one of the Midlands’ best-loved landmarks – the 950 year-old Dudley Castle, where the flag can be seen flying for miles around."
"I think it is really important we celebrate what a great area the Black Country is. The first of these to be registered was the Black Country In 2008 the idea of a flag for the region was first raised.The flag was unveiled at the museum on 14 July 2012 as part of celebration in honour of the 300th anniversary of the erection of the first Black Country Day takes place on 14 July each year. This action commenced on 9 May in The 20th century saw a decline in coal mining in the Black Country, with the last colliery in the region – As the heavy industry that had named the region faded away, in the 1970s a museum, called the The history of industry in the Black Country is connected directly to its underlying geology. Other examples are "code" for the word cold, and "goost" for the word Ghost.