Pity there are so few captions, I didn't recognise much. I bought a very good hardback book of Smethwick photographs, mostly Edwardian. Great photo looking up Cheshire road from top and bottom, when trees lined all the way, both sides., Great pics of the Council house too etc.
That's Albion junior school opposite the Hawthornes, at 2:20. Off camera you have Thomas Telford High School. Both schools served the local community. These two schools have been demolished and replaced by Sandwell Academy which does not serve the local community.
@@Athea_khan Think what he means is you can go back and visit your homogenous ancestral homeland any time you like, ours has been destroyed with multiculturalism without our consent, now the indigenous Brits are becoming ethnic minorities in their own country.
Not from Smethwick, but lived and drank there (early 90's to 2000) on the way to The Albion; have to say, I only recognise 30% of the pics. Very fond memories.
Sold us out so the rich could become richer and send our industries abroad. While everything has changed and not for the better. We needed change but its gone to far now to get it back. So Sad.
Looking at all those factories makes me feel so sad. I am convinced that the dirty air of 1960s Smethwick was the cause of my sister's death from asthma, as we lived directly opposite one that used to churn out black smoke on a daily basis. Even the nappies that my mom used to put out to dry would sometimes turn black with the smog. 😪
Amazing pictute at 2.14. 23 shilling a week, for tough labouring no doubt, Thats what my dad did, uproot from Smethwick to Bristol ( Aeroplane company) but in 1955.
Look how clean it looks there. Had to drive through to rude end cemetery today. It's an absolute shit hole now, litter everywhere and just looks minging and dirty. My nan would turn in her grave if she were here now
@@browneyedgirl4268 nah ya wrong....when i say ruined im talkin the area, the people, the loyalty, the peacfullness, the atmpospher, the friendships, the jobs ect....if u think its like that now then u completly wrong....me whole fam was bron n bred smethwick and it def aint the same...in a bad way....its a right dive now...full of rubbish everywhere and foreigners causing crap...seen it with me own eyes more then once.
@@smofla13 You have just offended the best half of my family with your description of 'foreigners'. My dad came here from the Caribbean in the early 1960s.
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Thank you as I was born here in 1936 so thanks for the memories…
I enjoyed that. Smethwick born and bred.
Pity there are so few captions, I didn't recognise much. I bought a very good hardback book of Smethwick photographs, mostly Edwardian. Great photo looking up Cheshire road from top and bottom, when trees lined all the way, both sides., Great pics of the Council house too etc.
0:20 the Navigation pub, bottom of bridge street across from the canal locks, left to decay and collapse, demolished in the early 2000s
That's Albion junior school opposite the Hawthornes, at 2:20. Off camera you have Thomas Telford High School. Both schools served the local community. These two schools have been demolished and replaced by Sandwell Academy which does not serve the local community.
Thank you
England never stood a chance. RIP.
What is that supposed to mean? BTW I'm from smethwick
@@Athea_khan Think what he means is you can go back and visit your homogenous ancestral homeland any time you like, ours has been destroyed with multiculturalism without our consent, now the indigenous Brits are becoming ethnic minorities in their own country.
time for england to get diluted mate 😂😂😂😂😂
@@careytitan9097i genuinely hope your fears become a reality. its the least you deserve
England never stood a chance the day it went into africa or south asia
Wow I was born in smethwick bearwood. Such memories 😊
Puffing billy
@@davidbradley4602 yeh. Hussar. Puffing Billy. Seven Sisters. Brum was a great place man
Not from Smethwick, but lived and drank there (early 90's to 2000) on the way to The Albion; have to say, I only recognise 30% of the pics.
Very fond memories.
Sold us out so the rich could become richer and send our industries abroad. While everything has changed and not for the better. We needed change but its gone to far now to get it back. So Sad.
Looking at all those factories makes me feel so sad. I am convinced that the dirty air of 1960s Smethwick was the cause of my sister's death from asthma, as we lived directly opposite one that used to churn out black smoke on a daily basis. Even the nappies that my mom used to put out to dry would sometimes turn black with the smog. 😪
What about cape Hill brewery
Amazing pictute at 2.14. 23 shilling a week, for tough labouring no doubt, Thats what my dad did, uproot from Smethwick to Bristol ( Aeroplane company) but in 1955.
Does anyone have photos of Edith Sands Primary School or Brasshouse Lane Infants School?
ask for danny g
The colour photo of Tangye's being demolished is my copyright. It was taken around 1966 and is a scanned colour slide.
WHAT was the music called
Limelight ... by Charlie Chaplin.
Halal candy corner is the first pichure
Look so caucasian before the takeover and overpopulation.
Yes it was an homogenous country back then, now white British are becoming an ethnic minority in their own country and homeland.
Lol u taking the piss ????
Hahaha
Look how clean it looks there. Had to drive through to rude end cemetery today. It's an absolute shit hole now, litter everywhere and just looks minging and dirty. My nan would turn in her grave if she were here now
now look at smethwick....ruined completly.
Naturally
It was ruined when it was built
It was always ruined. Don't miss the dirty smog from the old days. My elderly aunt reminded me of that when I spoke to her a couple of days ago.
@@browneyedgirl4268 nah ya wrong....when i say ruined im talkin the area, the people, the loyalty, the peacfullness, the atmpospher, the friendships, the jobs ect....if u think its like that now then u completly wrong....me whole fam was bron n bred smethwick and it def aint the same...in a bad way....its a right dive now...full of rubbish everywhere and foreigners causing crap...seen it with me own eyes more then once.
@@smofla13 You have just offended the best half of my family with your description of 'foreigners'. My dad came here from the Caribbean in the early 1960s.
Looks like nothing changed...still a dump
I lived in Cheshire road for 4 years, 1950--54.best school years of my life, at Uplands Rd.