As a brummie born in 1962 it was a much better place way back its become unrecognisable now .

@peterwilliamallen1063

4 күн бұрын

As a Brummie born in 1955 I found Birmingham upto 1970 a dirt Dump riddled with slums and reminents of the second world war, from 1970 onwards Birmingham City Council got rid of the slums building new Houses and totaly rebuilding the City Centre and now is a beautiful modern cosmopolitan City to be proud of.

When Birmingham was great, not like it is today unfortunately

@deanhowell5936

11 ай бұрын

What's about it now? What has changed?

@knowhatimean5141

7 ай бұрын

@@deanhowell5936 am 68 and I went home on a bus a few weeks ago in Birmingham,the bus was full, and I was the only white person on that bus!!..thats what's changed.

@deanhowell5936

7 ай бұрын

@@knowhatimean5141 is that a bad thing?

@_B.M_

6 ай бұрын

@@deanhowell5936 exactly. times change. different does not mean bad. Simply different!!

@Stinger2020

5 ай бұрын

​@_B.M_ is is bad now. I left brum in the 90s and now it's full of Muslims gangs, and groomers. It would be like going to the middle east and seeing white people and churches every where. Its different and bad.

Gives one a warm comfortable feeling looking at these pictures. Everything makes more sense. Trams and buses that invite travel. A sense of purpose and meaning.

Just look how clean everything is . Not a bit of graffiti in sight beautiful.

I was in Birmingham about five years ago. I recognize nothing in these photos. It is now a completely different city.

@wendywolfman

11 ай бұрын

Yup. Thank you Tony Blair.

@davidnarbett

8 ай бұрын

These photographs are from SEVENTY years ago - Your comment is pointless

@stermindelves4251

7 ай бұрын

I was born in 1960 and recognise most of the places pictured. Thank you

@Villa832

6 ай бұрын

@@wendywolfman😂😂😂😂😂😂😂I’m a Brummie born 1955. Tony Blair, don’t be ridiculous. I recognise many of those places. They disappeared in the 1960s and 1970s.

@wulfhere83

5 ай бұрын

Most of what you see here is still standing, I've lived here my life I can name locations. But I know what you mean, architectural modernisation aside, Birmingham as a city has changed a great deal over 70 years.

Great pic of the tram going past the Shakespeare pub. Both long gone now.

I loved Brum once now I can't stand the dive,I would rather pull my teeth out with pliers than be there now,it's become a third world doss house.

My Home City, during my growing up years. I can always date such photographs, by the Cars, and the fashions. They make me feel emmotional.

Excellent photos,well done

@Gunnar_Gunnarson

6 ай бұрын

Many thanks!

Mermaid pub, collecting point for many a man (mainly Irish) for a days work back in the day, I miss so much from our past

Absolutely wonderful and there was 3 pictures of where i am from - Shard End, the Heathway and the old Beaufort cinema at the Fox and Goose 😁

@ozone1959

Ай бұрын

I know what you mean, I'm from Erdington and used go to the fox and goose on a Sunday for the disco in 1979 with my first love ... Ahhh I still love and miss her.... But thats life 😂

I think it would be good for everyone to return back to their corners! As a black woman born an raised in Birmingham, I agree that the country you see here in these pictures has long gone to the dogs. I hope this country can be restored back to it glory days, as much as I would like to enjoy the glory days of the carribean islands from which I inherently came. The war is over now - let's get rid of the welfare system and the NHS. Folks will soon start selling up and fleeing!

@peterwilliamallen1063

4 күн бұрын

What utter rubbish, I grew up in these times and Birmingham was a smelly dity place, since it has been rebuilt it is a clean aired modern cosmopolitn City.

Born and bred in the city centre in the 50s it was always my home until the infestation which has dragged it down just like all third world countries.☹️

@_B.M_

6 ай бұрын

Economically, it is doing better than it was in the 50s.

@Roy-in-U.K.

6 ай бұрын

@@_B.M_ I would agree economically however that’s the end of the story. Everything else has gone downhill due to mass immigration and crime. As a serving copper for 30 years I have seen the underbelly of the city which is progressively getting worse. Whatever money they throw at it or building they build, as the motto goes, you might be able to polish a turd but will still be a turd!😎🍺

@paddyanglais91

6 ай бұрын

​@@_B.M_yes, let's celebrate those all important GDP numbers in a modern day cultural wasteland

@baldieman64

5 ай бұрын

@@_B.M_ That would be why the city council is bankrupt, and the city has the lowest employment rate in the country.

Birmingham where i still live..... memories here nice video 👍👍

@Gunnar_Gunnarson

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks!

Birmingham is a vile place to live now days

@peterwilliamallen1063

4 күн бұрын

How do you work that one out, Birmingham in those days was smelly and full of slums. I grew up in these times

Was this before or after the invasion?😢

@_B.M_

6 ай бұрын

Definitely after. All the invading was done by the Brits years ago when they went round colonising half the world. Nobody wanted them in all those countries, they just turned up, that's about as invading as you get.

@Symptomless_Coma_

Ай бұрын

@@_B.M_ Rhodesia - fed Africa.... Zimbabwe - can't feed itself. Cry more.

Captions would have dded immeasurably to this.

All look at it nowadays 😢

RIP Brum.... murdered by immigration

@ozone1959

Ай бұрын

And corporation masquerading as government

@westy6214

Ай бұрын

And horrible urban planning.

@MrDaiseymay

Ай бұрын

@@westy6214 A Countrywide disease

@bernardlandymore7372

10 күн бұрын

So was my uncle.

Love it !

So nostalgic for me. I remember the 'Circle' and going to the Odeon Kingstanding as a child! Life was so simple back then!

When birmingham was a nice place look of the state of it now absolute disgrace 😢

@MrDaiseymay

Ай бұрын

All great Cities are the same, even London, and don't think it will ever change for the better

@peterwilliamallen1063

4 күн бұрын

Did you live in this period, these photos only show the better bits, most of inner City Birmingham at the time of these photos was made up od slum housing , dirty factories and bombed out buildings from the second world war, far superior now

As children we went to Lewis, to see father Christmas so excited, now wouldn't go if you paid me, so sad what's happened

@MrDaiseymay

Ай бұрын

all references to Christ mas, has become illegal

1:39 wow, Centenary Square looked amazing back then

Great Picture of Colmore Row, it looks amazing

1:16 Kingstanding Circle, now a decaying mess

@MrDaiseymay

Ай бұрын

Always reminds me of our trips to Sutton Park

R I P Birmingham like all other city's ,I was born in Liverpool 18 in 1945 in the 60 I had a and went to the cabin the birth of the Beatles served my time at fords and in a great union supporting are brothers. And sister in strikes but far better times life was easier trams great music I bought a house with my wife in 1971 now decades later the rot has set I love my city but it's getting over run not through vermin but in other ways it's a shame thanks to decades of badly run government starting with Blair opening the flood gates I feel sorry for the very you kids growing up they will have no life Christianity almost gone I wouldn't be surprised if the take over a great 2 cathedrals over the catholic and the protestant wat a city it was but there are still great Liverpool people here who will always make any one who comes here feel welcome ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

This is poignant. I grew up in Brum during the 50s. Change is inevitable as they say, but sadly not every change is desirable.

@MrDaiseymay

Ай бұрын

and what say, did we have in it ?

Miss school supplies.

An English city that was 100% English, not the shit hole it is today with many parts unrecognisable

Birmingham had got it's own big Ben?

@Gunnar_Gunnarson

Жыл бұрын

Who knew? Thanks for the comment.

@nickb5391

Жыл бұрын

no it hasn't

@sausagemash3977

Жыл бұрын

@@nickb5391 Just cos you got a little big ben,

@lillianflorence6056

Ай бұрын

​@@Gunnar_Gunnarsonclosed k in hockley, jewelry quarter

I know it wasn’t all rosey then but it was definitely a better place than today even the back to back houses with neighbours all chipping in toilets and the washing done in the yards gas lighting ha, well things move on .

I want to lives there ! But I in Hong Kong now😂

Islamic Republic of Brum, more like. 😥

@peterwilliamallen1063

4 күн бұрын

What Crap, there are no more Islamic people in Birmingham than London, Manchester or Paris

It was better in those days

@peterwilliamallen1063

4 күн бұрын

Did you live in those days like I dis as a child, if you did you woudn't make such a silly comment

When birmingham was white

"iT's AlWaYs BeEn MuLtiCuLtUrAl"

Scum live here now

I was born in Birmingham in 1991 and I find this stupid. If you was born in 1985 you’d complain. If you was born in 1975 you’d complain. It’s a generational thing.