Hometown - West Bromwich (1959)

West Bromwich, West Midlands.
Bleak looking road with West Bromwich sign post. Entrance to Albion Football Club and the Grandstand. Gala swimming pool building. Pan down the new technical college. Large gas works. The Oak House Museum and entrance to the Garden of Remembrance. Tall Clock Tower and the Tower Cinema
FILM ID:2279.08
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[@shanefrance7446]

Compare those days to now it's heart breaking you might as well say them days will never come back ....

[@Dazzily]

My hometown. but look at it now!

[@patrickduffy4321]

This area started to go downhill in the early 80's and never came back. It looks great in this film shot only 21 years before! Sad!

[@shanefrance7446]

Look at the way things have gone compared to those days less crime less greed happier communitys...safer as well less rubbish on streets i guess

[@wordsleydave]

I went up the town last Saturday for the first time in years ....... what a sh*thole it is now!!!!

[@Wench64]

God if they saw it now, I miss anything before the 90s that's when it went downhill

[@bmc9504]

And then Smethwick moved in.....