1977.Birmingham.England.Cityscape and People in the 1970s.Market. In front of the station.
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Birmingham is an industrial city in the West Midlands, England. The population is 1.14 million. The population of urban areas, including the suburbs, is 2.29 million, making it the second largest in the country. Locally, it is considered to be the second largest city after the capital London, and it actually has the city area population and metropolitan area population next to London, but in the opinion polls in the United Kingdom, there are more opinions that Manchester is the second largest city. Birmingham, a small, featureless village until the 18th century, developed as an industrial city, partly because it became the intersection of canals and railroads as the Industrial Revolution progressed. James Watt, who invented the steam engine, and Matthew Boulton, who processed metal, were active in Birmingham. A traditional transportation hub, it is located just halfway between London and Liverpool. In 1838 it was connected by rail to London and Liverpool. Neighboring cities include Derby about 55 km northeast, Coventry 25 km east, and Leicester 55 km east. In the Köppen climate classification, it belongs to the Marine West Coast Climate (Cfb). There are two football clubs in Birmingham, Birmingham City FC and Aston Villa FC. It holds the international competition of athletics, the British Grand Prix. In cricket, there is the Edgbaston Cricket Ground, which is used as the home of the Warwickshire CCC and also hosts test matches. Located in the Midlands coalfield area, with an iron mine nearby, industries such as automobiles, aircraft, and chemicals have developed, forming a heavy industrial area called the Black Country (Kurogo), including the surrounding area. It developed into a large industrial city with the construction of the Soho Metal Factory by James Watt and Matthew Boulton during the Industrial Revolution. Growing up in a black country where everything in the town was blackened by soot and the sun was hidden by smog and covered in darkness all day long, JR Tolkien described Birmingham as a dark country in his novel. It was used as a model for "Mordor".
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#1970s
#birmingum
#england
BGM：MusMus
Anyone remember the giant T-Rex in the history museum?
Good ole Birmingham in 1977. I was 15 at school enjoying my youth.
I would have been seven and moving from infant to junior school then.
Me too in Great Barr
@@BIJOU167 used to Go to the Great Barr quarry on a Sunday riding our Montessas, Suzukis, Yamahas Bultacos, those were happy times, great Fun !
@@musiclover5023how old are ya now ?
@@LHRTW 150 but I look like 45 lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Oasis market and Reddington’s rare records on a saturday, Silver Blades on Saturday night
Ooooh silver blades the first time I drank a coke float😊
Loved Reddington's rare records and the Oasis market and as a little kid I used to go to Silver Blades for skating lessons.
Those were the days I loved Oasis Market and silver Blades
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.
My Grandfather worked for Lucas.
@@imogenimeson664 so did mine james reading was his name.
Jo, 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.
Can't believe how clean it is!
Not many none British there at that time.
So many old folk there. Most old people I know, won't go into the city centre these days.
It was hard in the 1970s in Brum. But it was a million times better than today. A million times better.
And a lot safer too.
Safer.. don’t make me laugh! Brum is obviously better right now
I remember it well. The Queens silver jubilee! Lovely memories of bygone times. I'd go back in a heartbeat.
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.
Better now? You know it’s not.
That was a lovely video and thank you for posting it on RUclips. 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.
I also have a video of Birmingham. Please look forward to.
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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!
@@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,
@@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!
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!!!
I remember this exactly , and it was better back then ❤️❤️❤️🇬🇧🇬🇧
And it stank of urine everywhere
Try posting an English flag
@ozone: Try not worrying about flags. Patriotism isn’t a bit of fabric
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.☹️
Nice to see things like Martineau Gardens again at 9:25.
I grew up in brum, loved it. Such a great city back then, left in 86. it's hard going back now, spoils such good memories. If the ever make a time machine.. bagsy first in!
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.
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
What utter rubbish
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
Loved watching that .. brought so many memories back .. thank you 😍
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 !
Great to see Birmingham from the 70s
Thanks for uploading this. It brings back so many happy memories of when I used to go into Brum with my mother. I was seven years old in ’77, and the rag market was an adventure. We'd get chips or doughnuts and sit on the benches there. Such lovely memories 😊
Loved watching this. ❤
Same age as me, then, Alyson!
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. ☀️🌻☮️👍
So sad to see brum today , good old days wish I could go back
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...
When brum was a nice place sadley not any more 😢😢
@@paulcarter6146tf u on about Brum is a thousand times better now, the inner city areas have always been shitholes.
‘Something’? We all know what caused this city to die.
Muslims? @@Paratus7
Biggest impact was social media
@8:33 - That stall seems to be popular, and look how everybody queues politely instead of scrumming around it.
Remember it like this & Loved it, would spend all day in town I was 14 in 1977
My parents met when they worked in Rackhams in 1978. Mom was a telephonist and my dad was a BT engineer working on the lines.
I remember walkin through Manzoni gardens in the mid 90s as a child
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
What happened to all the Starlings you used to hear from the rooftop`s down Corporation Street in The 1970`s and 80`s ?
All the Foreigners eat them.
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.
The old Bull Ring Markets , New Street when vehicles drove through the old library. Birmingham has changed
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 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
How visually its changed, if you know what I mean? What did we do to England?
Nothing happened and get your head back in your backside.
@@LHRTW yet right, nothing has changed ,I think your the one with your head up your backside 😂
@@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.
@@andrewmoore5628 we should call all Aussie whites back
@user-mc1yd9bp5xThe government isn’t responsible for maintaining personal and commercial property, nor is it responsible for dumping piles of filth on the streets, dealing drugs on the streets, shoo ting and st abb ing people on the streets, or organising grooming gangs. That’s down to the people who live there.
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.
I remember the Birmingham pub bombings in 1974, The Tavern in the Town was hard It And the loss of life.
Dozens of people were killed and maimed for life in those bombings.
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.
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!!!!
There’s something about Birmingham that makes people know we’re they are.
Celebrating my 21st in the Bull Ring Tavern in this year.
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.
Dull and grey. Although, people dressed a lot better then. Very smart. The women seem thinner too.
Everyone was thinner then.
And I was a seven year old kid moving from infant to junior school!
The year Lauri Kirsch of Tampa Florida and Michigan USA graduated from high school in 🇺🇸
I worked in the indoor market hall in the 70s. Rowleys butchers, great days, but sadly they’ve gone, could see the decline so moved out of brum to the Cotswolds mid 80s, from what I hear about it now glad I did .
Lovely video. One observation though, does the girl in the phone box give the cameraman the finger ?
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.
My god are people going to be watching videos of today in 40 years time and reminiscing about how good we had it ? Just a thought.
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 ❤😢
Magic.
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 .👍👍👍
The year before I was born. I live near Birmingham.
Aawlright! 👋
If you were to film like this today you would be probably approached by the police.
Or worse!
Chelsea girl with the big red plastic flower doors?
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.
I think the music is nice so there.
There's a mute option!
@9:27 - What was that ?? oO
I've just spent an afternoon in and around the city centre. I won't be rushing back. The changes are very disappointing. I'm not sure of the city of a thousand trades, more like a city of a thousand languages. Enough said.
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
But is Australia faring any better??
Almost entirely brits living there. gg no re.
There were no Brit’s then only English colonisers of Scotland
@@LHRTW time for your medication!
@@marypetrie930 I medicate you many times gleee
Safer
Wow I wasn’t even born til 1979
Its beruit now
I like the flared coat the girl @)03:16 is wearing.
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. 😂
00:45 is nor Birmingham. It's the National Exhibition Centre which is actually in Solihull.
But is still classed as Birmingham as it was built by Birmingham City Council
Birmingham is finished 😢
Great footage but the bloody music ffs !
B.D before diversity
You've lost a good opportunity to be quiet...
@@guleiro follow your own advice. It's OK to be white
@@nicholasgargano7396 your name does not suggest though ..
@@An-lv9vw I'm a black country man, white man, very honoured to be so
@@nicholasgargano7396 whats white in your surname ..
Birmingham at a time long before Blair changed it.
not a burkka in sight ohhh the days
no black and arabs back then? wow like heaven
There were plenty of Rastas and Sikhs back then and they were fine, it wasn’t until the Africans and Muslims came that problems began. Back then it was the Irish causing the problems with all the IRA bombings
When were they putting up all those ugly modern buildings? Ugh.
All the ghosts....
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Just look how clean it is no graffiti. And its terribly white 😂😂
It is better now than those days when it stank of urine and no cctv cameras
Some areas were and some weren't.
Bad muzic
Were are all the Muslims ???
There were plenty of muslims in Birmingham in the 70s.
@@_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 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. !
Aston mainly back then.
Birmingham city centre-craphole then as it is now
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.
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!!!