A series of six films,. in which English communities still look remarkably different from each other.

As. the hand chainmaker -man or woman - becomes a -thing of the past, there's still pride in application to the metal trades which have always been the basic occupation.

Brian Trueman looks at the market-place and the chainshop, the Ragged School and a Black Country Night Out, but it's in the Staffordshire bull terrier that he finds a reflection of the Black Country man himself.

BBC Manchester