I want to go back to the 1980s, it was all so much better....thanks for uploading.

@misslaurap

Жыл бұрын

i totally agree i was born 1977 but i enjoyed going into Birmingham in the old days with my family

@Only-one-life-68

Жыл бұрын

I worked as a barrowboy in around 1981 on my uncles egg and poultry market stall outside of Woolworths.. I was 13 yo I loved it .. Long days could be very cold to in the winter..

@stephenroche5107

5 ай бұрын

Apart from thatcher

@stephenroche5107

5 ай бұрын

​@Only-one-life-68 I remember it well the other end they sold crockery love them days the council strangled access to the markets through transport access

@matthewwilliams3827

2 ай бұрын

@@Only-one-life-68I’d prefer that even in cold rainy weather than in a modern depressing retail job

Wish I could go back in time. Seems like this is the closest to a time machine I'll get to. Thank you uploader.

@lorie1482

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly.. quite a shame really. .. all we have is a computer screen

@garymwalton

4 жыл бұрын

Feel the same way. I'd love to live the rest of my life out in this time zone. Everything now is pure misery.

@S7EVE_P

4 жыл бұрын

I couldn't agree more. I have a pretty good life now, but I miss the vibe of the 1980s....it was definitely better

@zark212

2 жыл бұрын

@@garymwalton 100% Mate. I live near Brum and went there to get some of the imported games console software ( Megadrive etc ) in this time zone plus lived hear all my life. It was and always will be an Aladdin's cave of sheer innovation and brilliance. I literally loath modern times. Then it was all about the moment and good vibes with no egos or anything. How times have changed mate. I detest the way the High street shopping has gone.

@misslaurap

Жыл бұрын

agree these videos are great reminds me of the old days

My happy days 😌 I hate going into town now.

Good old days 👌 the city centre had actual soul and character, including the folks back then, family spirit atmosphere ❤️👍

I say, those were the days. Trip to the market on Tuesday afternoon with friends, the fish market, the donut shop by the stairs. Town is not the same anymore. The good old memories.

The place had character in those days. Modern shops just haven't got the same warmth to them.

@mozfan737

7 жыл бұрын

I have to agree with you

@rw6391

5 жыл бұрын

Totally agree,I keep saying towns got no character now.

@zark212

2 жыл бұрын

Couldn't have said it better. Then it was superior. The buzz of shopping and actually owning merch on the Day and seeing new people and buying super cool stuff. I LOATH modern Day shopping mate. Its utterly depressing to the point of vomit inducing. For instance the amount of security with egos stuck up there back sides. Had one follow me who must have been half my age mate when all I was doing was buying Christmas presents in WHSmith about 2 years ago in Brum. I felt like telling the cretin that I was witness to Brums best times and that people like Him make shopping a living Hell by following innocent hard working blokes around. I remember getting up early in the 80s to get to Brum...The smell of the morning cooking and breakfasts and then heading to Virgin megastore and the Games shop under it, Then richer sounds and comptazia which is now utterly rubbish. I went in there a few Years back and every single comic is perfectly situated on shelves in pristine order as iff no one is supposed to touch them unlike the 80s when there was so much good stuff in there. I utterly detest modern shopping. There is no way it will ever approach what we were privileged to witness. I went in there a few Years back and every single comic is perfectly situated on shelves in pristine order

@user-mc1yd9bp5x

3 ай бұрын

Your words have wisdom mate ​@@zark212

That place that cooked the doughnuts... all the steam from the shop !... Great atmosphere back then

@stephenroche5107

Ай бұрын

It was called the roller coaster at the other end of the row one of the best chippies under the chippie inches wall chilly Billy's and under the stairs we'll Harrison dairy eggs and cheese I can remember so much more

I was 9. I remember going all round here with my mom And family. The memories are insane and the speed at how life is passing is even more so Amazing

I miss this place so much the noises, the aromas, the people. I worked in the Bull Ring fish market and I use to draw the crowds shouting" 2lb of cod 2 quid " I would sell out cod by the end of the day. Then when work was finished I'd be over by Moore street station supping at my favourite pub The Outrigger dancing to the Northern Soul... That was such a different world in which we lived.. :( Thanks for the trip down memory lane!!

@acquiesce100

2 жыл бұрын

Great story --How much revenue would you have brought in on a Saturday and what was your profit and the end of the day? Just really interested to know what it was like for a market seller back then. My uncle had a fish stall late 80s early nineties.

@Badger69-96

2 жыл бұрын

@@acquiesce100 I was only a sales assistant so the profit I'm not sure about, I can tell you I was on £100 a week back in 87, that was a modest wage for a 17 year old, I do remember working overtime one Christmas to pluck fresh turkeys, my boss said he'd give me a Christmas bonus when all the plucking had finished. After my £5 Christmas bonus and 8 hours of overtime, sometimes leaving the market after 22:30hrs, I decided it was my last time I'd work after 18:00, the day I left was a huge loss to my boss and my new bosses gain on the building sites.

@acquiesce100

2 жыл бұрын

@@Badger69-96£100 a week for a 17 year old back then was very good. I remember walking around the market with my dad always wondering how much the sellers were making and I bet it became harder as the supermarkets got bigger with more choice. Great story.

@Badger69-96

2 жыл бұрын

@@acquiesce100 you can only imagine how I must of felt earning £50 a day carrying the hod on a building site? I did meet some interesting people working at the Bull Ring, Graham Taylor was the manager of Aston Villa at the time was a regular on Wednesdays just as the market was starting to close he would come and stroll through...

@acquiesce100

2 жыл бұрын

@@Badger69-96 Ah wow. I would have been going down to the Villa around that time. I was only around 7-8. before I became a Man Utd Fan. Haa. Graham used to live in a house on Maney Corner for a while in Wylde Green as Aston Villa FC owned a few houses in Wylde Green which they used to let the players stay in. Steve Mcmahon had a house pretty much next door to him in the Boulevard. So it makes Sense Graham would come round the market. Happy days. I used to love catching the old diesel multiple unit trains from New Street back up to Sutton Coldfield. Just lovely days. Really dislike Town nowadays and always avoid it if I can.

What a wonderful video capturing the old bullring.. My family had a egg and chicken stall outside Woolworths. My uncle and mom used to work on a Friday and a Saturday.. William”Bill” and Maggie Griffiths. I’m 50yo know I was a barrow boy about 13 yo.. I loved it.. The other traders were so warm to one another even though they were competitors.. Things are so different today.. Thank you for the video.. Ps I remember the lady selling the flowers at the bottom off the ramp..

Born and bred in Birmingham remember going to bull ring market with my parents when I was 8 I miss the way used to be good quality stuff that time in late 70s 80s 👌👌👌👌👌🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

@theholyoneofisrael.9550

3 жыл бұрын

toys r us days

Love seeing this i left school in 1985 but I do remember around 1984. I would deliberately go down to the bullring outdoor market everywhere on a Saturday with my sister and brought oranges I did not want until the young lad Clive who worked on a particular fruit and veg stall asked me out. I didnt even like oranges. I thought he was so cool with his shaggy perm🤣🤣🤣 and he took me to see a rocky film. Wonderful times back then none of this gang violence and people robbing and raping and chopping up people. The city centre is horrible now. Im so thankful im not part of the younger generation. 70s and 80s were still brilliant.

@ShaolinMeditator101

Жыл бұрын

There were also problems in 70s and 80s aswell with racism violence and football hooliganism violence. But ofcourse if it doesn't affect you than its all good you'd rather go back to that time even if it means other ppl will suffer.

@oddities-whatnot

7 ай бұрын

@@ShaolinMeditator101Why would others suffer just because that person wanted to go back to that era ? Makes no sense whatsoever when you consider we have far more problems these days. Unbelievable.

Memories...that was best times of our lives 🙏🙏💯

I was born in 75,this is the town is knew!I loved it,remember the flower lady well.Its all changed, wish I could go back.

omg I remember that woman selling the flowers .... I love the bull ring like this it was real not ponzy like now .

The 2 men in the blue coats at 0.37 are Tom and Steve Hunt father and son they sold towels and bedding . I used to stand across from them selling shoes and slippers from 87 to 2000 . I used to drive down from Lancs every week and took great money then . Yes it was a shit hole but a lot of us traders were making good money and all cash . Johnny Mathews sold cakes and biscuits under the bridge at that time too

Could people who have vhs videos of the 70s 80s 90s 2000s put them on KZread please. Many thanks

I did not enjoy going to the market because I hated, and still hate crowds, but I'd force myself because I knew that you got good quality food and bargain prices. The last time that I went, which was the year I retired, 2011, after a break of many years, I was appalled by the rubbish that was being sold at prices higher than I was paying in the supermarket. Stall after stall selling the same, and most of what I bought ended up in the bin as it started rotting after a couple of days. I'm not one for quoting "good old days", but the old market certainly was much better.

The sister's who sold the flower's,sold them for decades & I seen this one out last summer bless her,although I'm not up town a lot these day's since my health has deteriorated 😀

@simonedgbaston

4 жыл бұрын

❤

@mistofoles

2 жыл бұрын

What ?? The same lady seen here was still selling flowers 30 years later ?? She must have been nearly 100 !!

@blossie33

Жыл бұрын

I remember that flower lady from way back very well, I was amazed to see her near the new Rag Market when I returned to Brum for a visit in the 00's 😮

Great video brought a tear to my eye

This is some decent video camera for the 80's, my phone camera isn't this clear 😒

@rude2870

4 жыл бұрын

So true

I loved the bullring market in the 80s, thanks.

I'm from Birmingham and whilst I can see the nostalgia from watching this video there is no way from a visual point of view that the old bullring was better than the new one, maybe a better atmosphere back then if u were a market person but it was a concrete shit hole, I worked in the indoor market on A J Barlows and it's true that those kind of market stalls are nearly dead

@theholyoneofisrael.9550

3 жыл бұрын

first 2 words 4th line

@ajs41

2 жыл бұрын

It seemed impressive when it first opened, as this 1965 film shows: kzread.info/dash/bejne/k4ubzsmuXZC9psY.html

@seabassmcgee3367

2 жыл бұрын

@@ajs41 I understand that it would have been impressive at the time, it just didn't age very well lol

Aww, miss this old place. Hate the new one: too crowded, too 'glamorous', no character and no proper Brummies. Surely they could have tidied it up a bit without knocking it down? I feel sorry for the traders, they've been steadily pushed further and further away. Without the markets, Brum wouldn't have existed today.

@mozfan737

7 жыл бұрын

Yes definitely no character now!

@anitamason1325

6 жыл бұрын

Moz Fan, I agree wholeheartedly. Back then you could have spent an entire day in the markets & still not seen all there was to see. I hate the new look Bull Ring but worse is what they've done to New Street station. It's the biggest eyesore to be inflicted on our city centre since the travesty that is Selfridges.

@Only-one-life-68

5 жыл бұрын

It’s all about big business sadly.. They aren’t interested in the traders.. I suppose that’s evolution

@muhammad40000

4 жыл бұрын

390h8er the world moves on, it’s the best that could happen for your city tbh

@simonedgbaston

4 жыл бұрын

Totally agree ❤

The best decade for me. It was awsome when though we never had as much as they so now we were happier.

Excellent video brings back my memories of past.

Just how much I love and miss U my beloved Bir.

I used to shop in mark one haha get my outfit for town on the night and my impulse those was the days of boogies wine bar and Edwards no 7

@theholyoneofisrael.9550

3 жыл бұрын

And The Dome.

takes me back. my dad was born sladepool rd maypole and even at 75 is a proud brummie. he settled in north lancs with my mum and on our regular visits back this is exactly how i remember the bullring and markets in the 80s

One thing not changed the litter on the streets of Birmingham.

It was what we knew and it had a genuine feel that we belonged, a time that has long passed now there is just designer shops that has no feeling of what we once knew but we have memories .

Everything just looks better.

Great quality, I was 18. Like stepping back in time.....to good times , thank you x

@TurcVideo

Жыл бұрын

Thanks. It was shot on u-matic. Cutting edge at the time 😁

absolutely superb! I remember the flower seller..4 buches a pound! great memories.

@Only-one-life-68

5 жыл бұрын

I do too around 1982 As I was a barrow boy for my family They sold eggs and chickens on a stall outside Woolworths Great I’m 50yo know..

@mandymoseley4868

5 жыл бұрын

@@Only-one-life-68 my family sold fruit and veg. My grandad was percy.

@lillianflorence6056

2 жыл бұрын

Think died in last 10 year, flower lady she was nice

never be the same again

@riyadh5100

7 жыл бұрын

Nope it will never ever be again, never ;)

@benjaminprice7996

6 жыл бұрын

rich turner true

@WillScarlet1991

5 жыл бұрын

@@riyadh5100+ Just take away everyones' phones, cancel the internet, and we'll be right back 😊

@Zanyzo22

4 жыл бұрын

True 😣 The good old days 😁

People would pay a fortune for those jeans with cartoon characters on them

I remember someone stealing my Kubricks Cube at the markets, 1981 I think . Cried my eyes out !

I agree it’s not the same anymore it’s lost it’s character it was basic and beautiful once upon a time.

These really were good times ..Birmingham now is the worst City in UK.I was born and bred here but loath everything about it

@WillScarlet1991

2 жыл бұрын

You should come to Bradford 😁

@jakeb7912

2 жыл бұрын

Birmingham has always been a shithole nothing special about the place always been ugly dump city no wonder the Government didn't care for the city and left it with years of austerity and cuts ,now its full of violent people and locals are rude and hostile.

@marktaurus206

2 жыл бұрын

Always been a dump Birmingham.

@user-mc1yd9bp5x

3 ай бұрын

​@@WillScarlet1991pakistanis and Indians have always been there but i know what you mean, the city has become harsh, modern, expensive, the mass immigration, unsafe including London, what a mess

I loved the old bullring.

This is pretty excellent quality for a 1980's camcorder.

@TurcVideo

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks. it was shot on lo-band u-matic.

Things move on not always in a good way

Great days.all the old characters died when they rebuilt it.never the same again.

4 bunches a pound.... how much are they now ? 4 pound a bunch ffs

My sister worked on the roundabout ride in the 70's by the King Kong, uncle and auntie ran stalls, and went school with the lad bagging fruit up near end of video wonder Paul is doing now, how things have changed. Can't stand the place now.

Loved the the market indoor and outdoor. 👍

I used to work in digbeth wholesale markets i remember the old woman calling hear four bunches a pound, she used to come to our stall always trying to get flowers on the cheap, remember my boss always getting pissed off with her, he was an arsole anyway, lovely woman with her barrow boys

@Only-one-life-68

5 жыл бұрын

Marc VanHeemsbergen Hi I do too around 1982,my family had a egg and chicken stall outside Woolworths.. I’m 50yo know I was a barrow boy about 13 yo.. I loved it.. The other traders were so warm to one another even though they were competitors..

@mandymoseley4868

5 жыл бұрын

I think that the woman selling the flowers is florrie hart.

@mandymoseley4868

5 жыл бұрын

Did you work at the triplex sports and social club in 2001 with Chris speakman

@mandymoseley4868

5 жыл бұрын

@@Only-one-life-68 my mistake it was katie Kelly aka one of the Sutton family

Its great that it was recorded for historical fact....how life has advanced now....UBER ....who would ever imagine...?

Happy days though I wouldn't go now!

oh i miss this so much.

i used to walk around this place with my mom and nan, who have both passed away now it had such a buzz about it and the traders were ace, it should never have been knocked down they should have rejuvenated the place theres no character there now just hustle and bustle, only been to the new place twice never again, doesn't seem like brum anymore

Oh wow I remember that 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

1988, I was just a young teenager, 14, best days, the city and country has changed in viewing it, the lov for your street, town and alike has gone, there is just empty people, no warmth, the olde skool people are a minority,

@user-mc1yd9bp5x

3 ай бұрын

Agreed ❤ it's sad because this cold deceptive emptiness is with social media too, it all began mid 2000s 😮😢

When the New Bull Ring Opened in the early Noughtie's I was really excited, but it didn't last - I guess I prefer the more basic look it just felt more human and too over the top stylish.

im only 20 with amazing taste but wow the difference back then and now is somewhat hurtful. Children under 18 either attended school or worked back then, and now we have the drug dealers and the gangs. Birmingham had class not anymore!

at 37 seconds at the watch stand is a young martin bailey in the dell boy sheep skin now works in hobs moat solihull.

Feels like yesterday I was walking around there and it looking like that, but it has changed so much since. Edit: Who remembers Summit records upstairs, and Reddingtons at it's various sites? Tempest etc. Loved shopping for vinyl in Birmingham. I was doing photography as part of my art course and have some great photos from around the Bullring taken in 1985... people doing their chalk art on the streets and the onlookers.

I am from Birmingham, so I'm so sad watching this film i miss the old Birmingham

the flower seller at 0:30 is still around today!

@gillwarr6192

8 жыл бұрын

She has recently passed away www.itv.com/news/central/2016-06-21/tributes-paid-to-birminghams-my-fair-lady-flower-girl/

@sarahsimmons5373

6 жыл бұрын

+Gill Warr ty so sad i was from northfield not the same no more and i was born 78

Man that’s my childhood right there how we wish we could go back

love brimgham

Dark, dank and cold in the winter, not much cheerier in the summer. Nostalgia is great when there's no chance of returning to it.

@theholyoneofisrael.9550

3 жыл бұрын

good point

@WillScarlet1991

2 жыл бұрын

Nothing wrong with wanting to go back 😊

@Heaven-dy9lj

6 ай бұрын

Still dank and cold in the winter today, so all things considered I'd rather go back to those times. More cohesion nicer atmosphere, with the cold dank weather.

Gd old days 🙌🙌😊

Looks great things were better in those days never to be seen again I drive around the city last week as a lorry driver as of course thier were good ppl but the place and the respect for each other is gone

I love this video

@speedychef

8 ай бұрын

It was the best day ever

you can tell jeans were in fashion

This is great! Good old Mark One with its rainbow colours inside :D (or was that in the 90's?) Also this is great quality for the time :)

Birmingham has always been WEIRD. Only now it’s actually sad

@spsppspsspsp8348

4 жыл бұрын

sanjay j you’re both the same person...

@jimconnolly4106

3 жыл бұрын

sanjay j if progressive means kiss Asians arses making them feel good and hate white people then no it isnt

@jakeb7912

2 жыл бұрын

Depression is the word in Birmingham ugly grey run down city full of drugs , poverty and crime.

@lillianflorence6056

2 жыл бұрын

Its rubbish now

@user-mc1yd9bp5x

3 ай бұрын

Modern and angry

Watch a programme called Something else from October 1979 Birmingham episode with fashions and the assembly on the Ramp and Corporation Street and the Studio eight minute nostalgia clip . Unlike today everything was accepted.

What year did this Bull ring last until?

@paulph12002

2 жыл бұрын

It was closed in 1999 before being demolished to makeway for the New Bullring

Aww. Happy days

How things have changed for the better 😂not !

The place had character back then. Soul-less monstrosity now.

Interesting vid i remember bull ring like this but it looks much better now, why get nostelgic over a run down shopping area.

Does anyone know when the area where Habitat and the big fountain with the coloured lights was last open to the public? We used to go there a lot in the 1980s, but I think it may have closed down by the early 1990s.

From when it was the Bull Ring rather than Bullring.

RIP BIRMINGHAM

brum has changed, but many things are the same

Great days. I can remember driving down New Street in my Peugeot 404 as sales rep for an IT company on a Friday evening. All the girls looking great at the Midland Hotel, all the lads in business suits. Later Bobby Browns, or Liberties. Sometimes the Dome. All gone now in this rotten, smartphone world.

@bensims7501

4 жыл бұрын

Sent via I phone

@WillScarlet1991

4 жыл бұрын

@@bensims7501 😁😁😁

@user-mc1yd9bp5x

3 ай бұрын

​@@bensims7501but does he have a choice whilst using his cellphone, 😮

I was only 8yrs old in 1988, I remember the ugly clothes in fashion and going to the Bull Ring with my mom😁

The flower seller, up and till maybe last year was still selling, however I have not seen her recently. I'm in my late 30s but I remember bull ring like this.

@shabajpur9704

6 жыл бұрын

ayecurumba!! She passed away last year

@simonedgbaston

4 жыл бұрын

@@shabajpur9704 ahhh! ❤

Atmosphere and character...where.s it all gone ?

@marktaurus206

2 жыл бұрын

There isn't any character or charm Birmingham has always been depressing dump worse today.

@user-mc1yd9bp5x

3 ай бұрын

Cellphones, feminism, and dating apps

I see the streets were filthy then just as they are now, rubbish everywhere

The flower seller was my grans friend 😁wow

All that denim 😂

Was watching a video from 1977 but 1988 was more my time going for the first time with me dad as a little kid to get me video games of the market there was 2 stalls one at the front and one on the over side on the back 🧱 a young cockney bloke used to sell c64 games then later megadrive I had a relative that ran the fish market though not in the 80s it was the late 60s and 70s

Happy days for me...No immigration issues here 🤔🤔

@PodcastCentral333

3 жыл бұрын

Why is immigrantion an issue?

@theholyoneofisrael.9550

3 жыл бұрын

@@PodcastCentral333 coz hes a white man

@brainsmith3931

3 жыл бұрын

Loads of whites in Birmingham idiot, races dont mix or get on in Birmingham so who cares segregated city.

@Cosford869

2 жыл бұрын

@@PodcastCentral333 Does that need to be explained? A walk through modern Brum will give you the answers you are looking for.

@user-mc1yd9bp5x

3 ай бұрын

Birmingham has become Crime riddled, decadent, arrogant

wow i remember brum like this

god it looked dirty back then

@mcc9887

3 жыл бұрын

yes it was just starting to get very BLACK

@sarahfemi9862

3 жыл бұрын

Birmingham still dirty and ugly today no matter how much you fix it.

@WillScarlet1991

2 жыл бұрын

@@mcc9887 Racist.

@paulph12002

2 жыл бұрын

Yes i was, I remember it well. But so much more Character than the new BullRing

@lillianflorence6056

2 жыл бұрын

Worse now , pick pockets,

proper family orientated it was then I miss it the city centre is not the same

@user-mc1yd9bp5x

3 ай бұрын

Now we got cellphones, dating apps, social media, cold modern buildings and feminism, a real hell hole

Back then we were all britains having a good time now its flooded with pick pockets from europe

@lillianflorence6056

2 жыл бұрын

Lots of crooks there now

@user-mc1yd9bp5x

3 ай бұрын

Agreed far too many polish gangsters

I feel sorry for all Brummies around there. I visited Birmingham a while back and would not visit again. I would have visited it in the 80's. It is sad what your city and all cities have become. Another world to the one you remember with great fondness and sadness like mourning a dear old friend. It's called progress apparently. Oh to be a teenager then.

fucking depressing

All the young men/women are middled aged people today

@theholyoneofisrael.9550

3 жыл бұрын

alot in the grave and never repented

@mcc9887

3 жыл бұрын

The whole country is middle aged now including me every where you look just old bags ...feel for the young people

@raecattell7680

Жыл бұрын

I'm 60 years old now, but the 70s 80s were great times to be young, used to always be over brum in those days.

So sad to see what they have done to our beloved town now stupid trams, clean air zones, mega structures, town will never be the same again.

@0:35 I used to have the same jumper

It looks so shit, there was a hell of an upgrade.

Remember the mad old lady selling flowers.

@lillianflorence6056

2 жыл бұрын

Not mad she was nice, died Last few years,

@1:03 - what was the bloke throwing to the customers ?

@annmitchell4663

5 жыл бұрын

It's a street auction..just cheap crap being sold as genuine stuff,they sell a few bits of better stuff to draw ppl in then get them to spend good money on rubbish.

@mandymoseley4868

5 жыл бұрын

@@annmitchell4663 absolutely spot on it was called a mock auction.

@theholyoneofisrael.9550

3 жыл бұрын

@@mandymoseley4868 the irish have mastered this

Freddie Mercury by the Merry Go Round?