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Brownhills shoppers and residents reveal what they love most about their town
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01/04/2025
Brownhills is a town full of culture, history and lovely people.
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Down you walk with the express to start we're down here in Brown Hills for this time's
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lovely neighborhood as you can see behind me we've got lovely Jigger who's obviously a major
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icon in Brown Hills obviously a big big memorial to the mine in history of the centre of the town
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so yeah we're going to be walking around asking asking the local asking some of the residents
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some of the shoppers some of the shopkeepers what they think about living in the area
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yeah it's quite quiet people are friendly pretty good little centre what's it like what's it like
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what's it like being in a cafe around here it's all right like i don't really know too many at
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the minute it's my first day back today so but everybody's been polite they've been lovely well
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i'm going to pray surely yeah i think it's lovely around here i do really like um brown hills
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so what a nice canal walk yeah where i live i live by the canal i do yeah on my balcony you
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can see the canal from where i'm where it's a good it's a good view isn't it that's a lovely
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view that is especially in the weather like today as well yeah so what's your like what's
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your favorite thing about the area then you got you got one favorite thing um the jiggers
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how often do you come down here is it like once a few times a week yeah so we're jamie and lottie
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obviously where are we uh the jack jigger taylor brown hills high street that's it so uh so yeah
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what's the uh obviously we're doing a yeah we're doing lovely lovely neighborhood what's the what's
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the best thing about uh best thing about brown hills which is the uh the residents maybe the
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shoppers i think i think that the best thing about brown hills although trades not what it
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used to be when the market when it was a market and the market was on the best thing about brown
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hills is the fact that it still has the community vibe everybody knows everybody um the local the
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majority of local business is an independent home so everybody helps each other out um the pub
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itself you've got the community feel when everybody gets together on the weekends for
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the social events that we have on and as i say everybody helps each other um it's all to the
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earth really if you talk about the local people good old good old-fashioned feel of
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a local community still in brown hills
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