It was hard in the 1970s in Brum. But it was a million times better than today. A million times better.

Anyone remember the giant T-Rex in the history museum?

So many old folk there. Most old people I know, won't go into the city centre these days.

I was six years old, but I have a great memory of the 70s growing up, I crave to go back, Birmingham was a great place to live. I remember the Lucas factory in Newtown had a Christmas tree on the top every year without fail, and most people had mannors and respect.

@imogenimeson664

2 жыл бұрын

My Grandfather worked for Lucas.

@sandrapowell64

Жыл бұрын

@@imogenimeson664 so did mine james reading was his name.

@angelacooper2661

Жыл бұрын

John, I must be a year older than you even though I didn't live in Birmingham (and still don't). ATV Studios and Tiswas back then, now long gone.

Good ole Birmingham in 1977. I was 15 at school enjoying my youth.

@angelacooper2661

Жыл бұрын

I would have been seven and moving from infant to junior school then.

@BIJOU167

Жыл бұрын

Me too in Great Barr

@musiclover5023

Жыл бұрын

@@BIJOU167 used to Go to the Great Barr quarry on a Sunday riding our Montessas, Suzukis, Yamahas Bultacos, those were happy times, great Fun !

@LHRTW

8 ай бұрын

@@musiclover5023how old are ya now ?

@musiclover5023

8 ай бұрын

@@LHRTW 150 but I look like 45 lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Oasis market and Reddington’s rare records on a saturday, Silver Blades on Saturday night

@ventibreeze6648

8 ай бұрын

Ooooh silver blades the first time I drank a coke float😊

@TheWhitehawker

Ай бұрын

Loved Reddington's rare records and the Oasis market and as a little kid I used to go to Silver Blades for skating lessons.

Can't believe how clean it is!

I remember it well. The Queens silver jubilee! Lovely memories of bygone times. I'd go back in a heartbeat.

Memories of old Brum - I was 23 & working at Rover Cars Lode Lane Solihull, just married & living in Redditch but parents still in Solihull Blossomfield Road. Good to see all these !

Birmingham was better back then … Ok it’s famed brutalist architecture… but no pot holes in the roads… police on the beat… bustling shops and markets… People with respect and no beggars…We have gone backwards in many ways

Birmingham is just a dirty hell hole now,no matter how many new buildings go up(even the new Bullring and Grand Central looks jaded now)just can't polish a turd!.Glad I was around in the '70s as a young kid.Shame no punk rockers were captured in the footage though, '77 being the year punk broke.

@peterwilliamallen1063

2 жыл бұрын

So how do you make out that Birmingham is a dirty hell hole, it is a modern cosmopolitan City with one of the greatest shopping centers in the country, the Bullring / Grand Central. I think you need some glasses dear

@peterwilliamallen1063

2 ай бұрын

What utter rubbish

I remember this exactly , and it was better back then ❤️❤️❤️🇬🇧🇬🇧

@LHRTW

Жыл бұрын

And it stank of urine everywhere

@ozone1959

Ай бұрын

Try posting an English flag

Thankyou for posting this, lovely memories, I was 14 then, loved to go up town on a Saturday, trawling all the clothes and record shops, sadly I don’t recognise it now, it’s changed so much and not for the better.☹️

Aged seven at the time, I was taken to see the Museum and Art Gallery and the Science Museum on many occasions. I well remember the West Midland cream and blue buses and the Midland Red ones too. Takes me back to childhood, as I am now aged 52!!!

Like all town in and around Birmingham and The Black Country over the past 40-years or so, something went very wrong with society and how it conducts itself! Such a shame...

@paulcarter6146

Жыл бұрын

When brum was a nice place sadley not any more 😢😢

@kayanbrice8771

11 ай бұрын

@@paulcarter6146tf u on about Brum is a thousand times better now, the inner city areas have always been shitholes.

@Paratus7

6 ай бұрын

‘Something’? We all know what caused this city to die.

@phealy02

5 ай бұрын

Muslims? @@Paratus7

@theviraltrend7551

3 ай бұрын

Biggest impact was social media

So sad to see brum today , good old days wish I could go back

That was a lovely video and thank you for posting it on KZread. This video brought back so many happy memories of Birmingham of times spent there back then and of how it was for I agree with other comments when they say Birmingham was better back then for it was so much better than it is now for it has changed so much and so quickly too and things felt better back then. I was eleven years old in 1977 and that was the year Star Wars came out and I went to see it with my mom,dad and my twin brother at the Gaurmont cinema in Birmingham,it was a lovely cinema but sadly it was knocked down in the early to mid 1980s but it was so nice watching this video and remembering the good old days of Brum.

@WorldVintageFilms

3 жыл бұрын

I also have a video of Birmingham. Please look forward to.

@zachariasbennett5105

3 жыл бұрын

@@WorldVintageFilms Thank you for sending me your message regarding that you have another video of Birmingham for it was very kind and I look forward to seeing it and I will also look at other videos that you may have. Wishing you all the very best,Zach

@garypritchett8136

2 жыл бұрын

Lol, me too, I was 12 years old in the Oct of that year. Also saw Star Wars at the gaumont, perhaps we went to the same screening!

@zachariasbennett5105

2 жыл бұрын

@@garypritchett8136 Hi Gary,I was glad to hear that you saw Star Wars at the Gaurmont too,it was such a lovely cinema but yes it is possible that we may have gone to see the film at the same time and probably passed each other all those years ago but do you remember standing in line for ages outside waiting to go in for we did but we didn't mind for it seemed to add to the excitement,

@garypritchett8136

2 жыл бұрын

@@zachariasbennett5105 I don’t really remember the queue (although I’m sure there was one!), I went with my dad. I think I saw other films there, but don’t remember what they were. I work in bham city centre, it’s changed so much since the 70’s. I loved being a kid, but the place was so grim back in those days!

I remember it well and with great fondness. Now it wouldnt bother me if i never saw it again. Sad but true. Thanks for the memories.

@Paratus7

Ай бұрын

Better now? You know it’s not.

Loved watching that .. brought so many memories back .. thank you 😍

The old Bull Ring Markets , New Street when vehicles drove through the old library. Birmingham has changed

It woz all gooin' on in Burm-ming-erm then ! Flares, huge collars, and buzzes gooin' down New Street ! !! I was 9 in 1977. Glad i was a kid back then. ☀️🌻☮️👍

A trip to the Bull Ring on Saturday was great. I’d spend hours in the record shops and drool at all the gear in the Hi-Fi shops in Hurst St.

That's my old city ,far more interesting than toda y's sanitised euro copy,you could be anywhere!! I was 22,great girlfriend,a Morris Marina,king of the world!!!!

@8:33 - That stall seems to be popular, and look how everybody queues politely instead of scrumming around it.

Great to see Birmingham from the 70s

Having just spent a day in Birmingham for the first time in ages, I was staggered at how much it has changed from 25 years ago, and even longer as I well remember wonderful days chasing buses quite often. This is a wonderful throwback, so wish there was a soundtrack on it especially to catch the sound of that last bus, very likely a Wolverhampton based Bristol VR on the 79.

How visually its changed, if you know what I mean? What did we do to England?

@LHRTW

Жыл бұрын

Nothing happened and get your head back in your backside.

@andrewmoore5628

Жыл бұрын

@@LHRTW yet right, nothing has changed ,I think your the one with your head up your backside 😂

@pmrose18

10 ай бұрын

We arent allowed to mention " what you mean" however Mosely and Sparkhill used to be lovely areas ..........in the 1950's now its a filthy dump.

@andrewmoore5628

10 ай бұрын

@@pmrose18 I know, think about it ' we aren't allowed ' what country are we living in, freedom to speak is fundamental, pointing out the obvious should never be a crime, look at London, Birmingham and Leicester I could list more.

@LHRTW

10 ай бұрын

@@andrewmoore5628 we should call all Aussie whites back

What happened to all the Starlings you used to hear from the rooftop`s down Corporation Street in The 1970`s and 80`s ?

I remember walkin through Manzoni gardens in the mid 90s as a child

Remember it like this & Loved it, would spend all day in town I was 14 in 1977

Dull and grey. Although, people dressed a lot better then. Very smart. The women seem thinner too.

@golden.lights.twinkle2329

10 ай бұрын

Everyone was thinner then.

@angelacooper2661

9 ай бұрын

And I was a seven year old kid moving from infant to junior school!

@user-mc1yd9bp5x

6 ай бұрын

No tattoos, no aggressive attitudes and no pronouns

Excellent video a little before my time as I wasn't born till 1978 but I remember it bean very much like that in the 80s my late farther would take me a lot used to go down the steps and go though the under pass to the slope my relative tom ran the fish market

I was born in Loveday Street Hospital in 1956 . Raised for the first 4 years in Lower Essex Street and then in St Martins Flats , Highgate till I was 15 . I now live in Moseley ...... A true Brummie . 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

I was working in an office in the Rotunda building in 1977; I was 21. We got bombed on two different occasions by the IRA back then and I had to help clear up the broken glass from the windows each time. Great times though. Love seeing the old cars. I had a Hillman Imp, followed by a VW Beetle 1302S. Wish I had had the foresight back then to take lots of photographs of everyday life and locations.

@musiclover5023

Жыл бұрын

I remember the Birmingham pub bombings in 1974, The Tavern in the Town was hard It And the loss of life.

@golden.lights.twinkle2329

10 ай бұрын

Dozens of people were killed and maimed for life in those bombings.

@angelacooper2661

9 ай бұрын

My parents were in Birmingham for a concert the night of the Pub Bombings. My Grandpa was looking after my seven year old brother Anthony and myself aged four; we were both fast asleep in bed. Blissfully unaware of the atrocity, I knew nothing and was never told about it. So the first I found out was the release of the Birmingham Six on BBC News, by which time I was in my early twenties!!!

Birmingham is a nice city.

I have been travelling to Birmingham to have a wander around, since the year in the video, 1977: and l still vist today. Sadly it has lost its character, and things are not the same. I liked the old Bullring centre, and palacades centre and markets: the shops were more interesting. I believe when todays primary school children are adults: city centres will be even worse, as most will buy things on the Internet, which will mean a further decline.

@user-mc1yd9bp5x

6 ай бұрын

Street busy life is dying, phones, internet have ruined everything that's also including the horrors of dating apps

Celebrating my 21st in the Bull Ring Tavern in this year.

I was 8 when this was filmed. When we used to 'go to town' we sometimes got the train in from Lea Village and i used to love the fountain between the station and what is now 'Mcdonalds ramp'. I also used to love going in the old Co-op and you could go right down into the basement, through the garden centre (a tunnel really) and you would come up in the Co-op on the other side of the street lol

The year Lauri Kirsch of Tampa Florida and Michigan USA graduated from high school in 🇺🇸

music on this is fitting with the time. It's kinda creepy but it just matches perfectly the era that was. I do remember the market near the bullring.

Magic.

If you were to film like this today you would be probably approached by the police.

@golden.lights.twinkle2329

10 ай бұрын

Or worse!

Almost entirely brits living there. gg no re.

@LHRTW

Жыл бұрын

There were no Brit’s then only English colonisers of Scotland

@marypetrie930

7 ай бұрын

@@LHRTW time for your medication!

@LHRTW

7 ай бұрын

@@marypetrie930 I medicate you many times gleee

The year before I was born. I live near Birmingham.

AHH.go down and look at it now.looks like its been just bombed where have all these people have gone v depressing. Nice video .👍👍👍

Great memories of better days for my old hometown Brum. I decided 25 years ago that things were heading downhill and moved to Australia. Sorry but I can't stand the place any more

@_B.M_

7 ай бұрын

But is Australia faring any better??

Winnie wallace. Used to love a day in Brum. So much nicer then . Who ever chose this music to accompany the film needs a kick up the arse. Spoils the whole thing.

@imogenimeson664

2 жыл бұрын

I think the music is nice so there.

@golden.lights.twinkle2329

10 ай бұрын

There's a mute option!

Lovely video. One observation though, does the girl in the phone box give the cameraman the finger ?

Aawlright! 👋

It was a better time back then

Wow I wasn’t even born til 1979

Feb-April 1977 I reckon. I would have been 15 at the time.

@angelacooper2661

9 ай бұрын

If that is the case, it would be four to two months before my seventh birthday. I would have been in my last year at infant school then!

I was born that year. November 10th. So depending on what month this was filmed after February in to March when I was conceived I was on the way. 😂

@9:27 - What was that ?? oO

I like the flared coat the girl @)03:16 is wearing.

Chelsea girl with the big red plastic flower doors?

Great footage but the bloody music ffs !

Its beruit now

All the ghosts....

It's not Birmingham any more it's over run glad I'm old wots it going to be like in 20years glad I won't be hear 2 see it ❤😢

not a burkka in sight ohhh the days

00:45 is nor Birmingham. It's the National Exhibition Centre which is actually in Solihull.

@peterwilliamallen1063

2 ай бұрын

But is still classed as Birmingham as it was built by Birmingham City Council

Bad muzic

B.D before diversity

@guleiro

2 жыл бұрын

You've lost a good opportunity to be quiet...

@nicholasgargano7396

2 жыл бұрын

@@guleiro follow your own advice. It's OK to be white

@An-lv9vw

2 жыл бұрын

@@nicholasgargano7396 your name does not suggest though ..

@nicholasgargano7396

2 жыл бұрын

@@An-lv9vw I'm a black country man, white man, very honoured to be so

@An-lv9vw

2 жыл бұрын

@@nicholasgargano7396 whats white in your surname ..

Ah the days when Birnmingham catered for shopers with easy access on the roads even the tunnel near St Mrtins chruch into the mutli story car park..........roll on 50 years now its an arm and 2 legs to park and the cars the govt told us to buy in 2005 are deemed filthy and incur a clean air zone charge...........well done Brum, you ruined the place!!

@tommyplunkett3643

8 ай бұрын

I look at that and it is a different country so clean and a different pace of life, there was respect and human nature was a everyday thought. Thank God I got out of a dirty litter ridden infested existence that it has become today all down to immigrants with no work ethic and take take attitudes. I am proud to be Irish but must agree with one man who seen it well before fruition ENOCH POWELL the streets would still be clean today if he had his way. England is haven of years gone by. Thank you forgreat footage of happy times.

@user-mc1yd9bp5x

6 ай бұрын

​@@tommyplunkett3643your a irish that makes you a immigrant too

Just look how clean it is no graffiti. And its terribly white 😂😂

@LHRTW

Жыл бұрын

It is better now than those days when it stank of urine and no cctv cameras

@golden.lights.twinkle2329

10 ай бұрын

Some areas were and some weren't.

When were they putting up all those ugly modern buildings? Ugh.

Were are all the Muslims ???

@_B.M_

7 ай бұрын

There were plenty of muslims in Birmingham in the 70s.

@galin95

7 ай бұрын

@@_B.M_ And look then , What a horrible Sh*t hole it is now then, From immigration, Us English people have just gave up. Horrible Government letting Muslims in.

@user-mc1yd9bp5x

6 ай бұрын

​@@galin95why are you afraid of, is it the hijab and beards

@galin95

6 ай бұрын

@@user-mc1yd9bp5x Because Satan the Devil set up Islam in 7th Century to cast all the Jewish people out of Israel, And to set up his temple (Dome of Rock 688 AD) over Gods temple. And before you ask i have never been to a Jewish synagogue. !

@TheWhitehawker

Ай бұрын

Aston mainly back then.

What a grim place with an depressing atmosphere. The people are walking along like zombies with nowhere to go. Maybe that's what the film-maker wanted. Could not understand why he spent so much time on uninteresting scenes like the crowds in the market or a dog chasing pigeons. Surely there were more interesting things to film. I lived in Coventry and visited Birmingham often. I worked at Fort Dunlop for a couple of years. I don't remember the city being this bad. The music in the video is horrible, I had to mute it.

@stermindelves4251

10 ай бұрын

So you lived in Coventry and worked in Fort Dunlop yet possess the nerve to criticise Birmingham. Hypocrite 😂

Not a Muslim in sight!! Today not a Brit in sight

Birmingham was a great city then..now just a shithole. I go back from time to time.. very sad to see how it is today!!!