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Yeah, I remember Birmingham city centre in the 1970's & 1980's. It had much more character then, didn't feel so threatening and was cleaner.

While cheap-seat Communists chant the impish canard that Communism (centralised command of everything pursuant to inescapable one-world feudalism) has never succeeded because it's never been fully unleashed, all around, we see its succeess. It has destroyed, corrupted or subverted everything that healthy, honest, good-hearted, responsible and reliable men have built, grown and hold dear, and in the deliberate decay, taunting tyranny and divised division, the humiliation is nearing ubiquity. It's almost endearing that naive victims think their suffering is merely the result of undermotivated pen-pushers who get confused in service to the serfs and then side-tracked by pimped-out public pensions. While the basic props of pointless politics have no deep understanding of what motivates them, the common motivation of their operation is solely to represent a remote star-chamber-of-horrors that recruits them to ingenerate, via vicious interventions and torture inventions, chaos, strain, pain, and neurosis throughout target populations, culminating in a helpless heap of futile begging. When The Blob is trapped safely in a box, fifteen minutes square, even the begging will have stopped. Simultaneously, parallel participants are trained to diagnose and prosecute anybody who points from the crowd and says precisely what everyone pretends not to see. At the inception of the injection of Progress, the kindness and politeness of the prey is exploited, and to naysayers they say that nothing will change. Those who won't take them on faith will be forced to face-up to the fashion. It's a criminal shame to be dull like we are, so be different the way that they say. For the long-forgotten, now-forbidden family, before the firstborn was reprogrammed to self-destruct, long ago, it almost seemed so. To the busy drones sweating to produce everything that would later be stolen from them, it went almost unnoticed. Tick-tock goes the clock, to mock God's fresh creation. At this stage, there is near completion of the global cell. For most peering out through the bars and the brain-fog, they have instilled enough fright and forlornness to make anybody of sound mind, sturdy heart and clear voice stand out above the moping mob like a villain in a gibbet. Nobody looks up into the prisoner's face, for fear that, on his silent, cracked lips, in his final breath, he might be seen to whisper again the truth that got him this far.

Its like lahore now

KRO 💙 the only thing left of the City

All because of a manic drive to rebuild the City in the 1960s by two particular gentlemen, namely Alderman Frank Price and’s his architect friend Herbert Manzoni, who between them reeked more damage on Brum than the Luftwaffen did in WWll. There was no doubting that B’ham needed better housing at the time, but their headlong rush to modernise simply became an exercise in callously replacing some incredible Victorian architecture that represented much of Birmingham’s rich history and cultural identity with what amounted to nothing more than millions of tons of brutalist concrete! Or, in other word, committed one of the biggest acts of civic vandalism you can think of! I know, because l witnessed it whilst it happened!

Absolutely wonderful .

Still a sh.t hold

Birmingham was a fantastic city. Sadly from 2000/2 it declined fast and now we have the cesspit that it is

Started work in the city centre in 1969 aged about 18 and worked there most of my life. My work and social life revolved around it. Visiting it now is depressing.

I would have remembered the Second City later on as I was born in 1970 and so some of these images are before my time. As a kid, I would have gone to the Science Museum or Birmingham Art Gallery and this period closed when I was twelve!

I lived in Brum from 1954 to 1974. Brum seems to have this zealous need to demolish and rebuild everything frequently. As for the Selfridges building !! 😭

Seriously good footage ! BeatLes Help playing at the Odeon! Thanks for posting

Big problem is that there in no one in the council that run Brum that care. Most are not native of Birmingham nor in fact the UK and are not interested in either its history nor importance as a manufacturing city. They only see pound signs so their whole take on Birmingham is to fill it full of flats and apartments and then they introduce a "clean air zone" so they can charge more money. Birmingham is not as important as London and its a City that is going to die as people just wont go there. The council have not even had the foresight to realise that if someone drives into Birmingham at 10pm for a night out they have to pay the charge twice if they stay after midnight. Complete madness from a council whose employees are mostly only interested in retiring as early as possible and taking as many sickies as possible. I for one have given up our manufacturing unit in Birmingham as a result of this and the oldest, YES, the oldest hardware store in Birmingham and possibly in the UK has also shut its doors for good as a result of the "clean air charge"

No fat people, phones or droves of foreigners...lovely

Lovely to see the old Gaumont widescreen cinema, which used to be at the end of Colmore Row. I can remember when the film The Sound of Music was pretty much a fixture there, at the Gaumont, month after month after month, back in the mid 1960s.

Oh, I always wondered what USED to be there before the present rather nice brown Wesleyan insurance building was erected, at the end of Colmore Row. Now I know, from this film!....just another (different, older) Wesleyan building! Very interesting, thanks.

So many memories, cheers

Before colonisation!

quite wonderful, thankyou.

Thankyou so much ..... my little girl love you .

That was beautiful Tabs 🐾

Thats so beautiful, she was a lucky pup to have you as her mommy xx

Lovely tribute Tabs x

HOORAH Dear Boy ! I found watching your cinematographic fillim most exhilarating. The last time I saw anything that wizard, was during the coronation of the old King. You really are a brick !

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THIS WAS "MY CITY" ? It was VIBRANT and ALIVE! WHAT (Did WE LET HAPPEN) ...:to IT ? What HAPPENED in 1983 :

I think what was and is now what a pissa

Amazing film

He was probably a Time Traveller

Thank you. . Unfortunately the little baby passed away a week later.. did everything to keep him going but I think it was too much for him being away from his natural mother. . I cried my eyes out but at least he didnt die out on the wooded pathway we found him.. :0 (

Bless you for giving this cute baby a chance

Absolutely adorable!!!!!!!!!

at 05.50 it looks like that bloke in the white shirt walking past is on his 'mobile phone'?, spooky.....

haha. where abouts was this? i saw them in son bou last year :D