Fun fact: one of my heels came off 2 mins into the making of this video. All I know is that I was filming with good weather on a Saturday afternoon. I was living my best life when all of a sudden I lost my balance. I looked at my shoes and guess what? One of my heels came off! I looked behind me. The heel was patiently standing in the middle of the road… So I had to rush quickly and get the heel before the green light. Me running with a missing heel. What a spectacle! Lol. So I had to go back home and come back to Bristol Road with (this time) a functioning pair of shoes. So that’s why I made this video at that time…
What a video packed full of memorable places! Enthused to see the new canal path along the Worcester and Birmingham Canal - sure that wasn't there when I lived in the area. Nice to see a few of the old shop names are still there e.g. Computer Experts who fixed several items of mine. I used to go to ALDI quite often. Nearly opposite it (26:54) is Delta Pi which I used a lot for art and craft supplies e.g. making birthday cards for people. The little Sainsbury's was a new entry at around the time I left - but went in there some time later to find one of my former 'clients' was working there and looked to be doing well for herself. Which was nice. Meanwhile the Tescos by the petrol station was useful on a Sunday! The structure at 36:29 I think carries the Bourn Brook under the road. Bournbrook Road meanwhile (39:28) - go up that and then up the hill and that's where I used to live. Good memories.
Man, I do love these videos :D I was up there recently checking out the canal and the new Sainsbury's. Gonna have me a nice long walk up the cut at some point, to see where it takes me :)
What a beautiful city, never seizes to amaze me Birmingham, the skyline, the shopping & talking about walking, I remember being back in Brum years ago before Snow Hill train station got redeveloped, oh back then in the 80s when this proud city was the manufacturing hub of this great beautiful island, there was GEC osram, Lucas, Metro Cammel, LDV, Longbridge, Ansells, M&B, Castle Bromwich the home of Jaguar where over 90% of the spitfires were produced during World war 2, Bournville the home of Cadburys chocolate where no more than 2 homes were allowed to be alike & no alcohol was allowed to be sold in that part of town, I've heard its still the same policy, yeh we used to walk under Birmingham City centre through Snowhill train station, earie spooky experience, talking about spooky in the North of that great multi cultural city, home to something like 200 different nationalities is a lovely suburb called Pype Hayes, its just next to Sutton Coldfield which itself has 1 of the larges parks in Europe, a lady the same age same time same spot 150 years apart to the dot was found dead, 1 of the top 10 mysteries in the whole wide world, spooky that. Anyway Birmingham is not about being the best it's just an amazing city that I fell in love with. Peace & Love to each & everyone of you ❤
Hi Joseline thanks for this. As a child I lived in Selly Oak in the 1950’s and 60’s My home was where the Turkish Kitchen is now, Oh boy I can’t believe how shabby the village has become. It’s quite unbelievable just how so much has changed and unfortunately a lot of it not for the better. It used to be a really pleasant village. Shop keepers would wash the shop windows and sweep the foot path outside of their stores every day and of course graffiti haven’t even been thought of back then. Shop names and signs were all discrete mainly hand painted panels along the top of the shop windows. Such a shame the public library has closed. Thanks again, I just wish I could get to see Selly Oak as it used to be back in the 1960’s. I used to be a projectionist at what used to be the Oak Cinema on the main A38 Bristol Road at the top of the village, by Church Lane. It was a beautiful Art Deco building with 1,500 seats. I was working there when we had James Bond starring in the film ‘Goldfinger’. We had a packed house every night, they queued way down the road waiting to get in to see it. The air in the cinema would be thick with cigarette smoke as everybody smoked back then, including the school kids. As I say thank you for this as hopefully in another 50 years or so folks will be able to look back at your video and have happy, nostalgic, memories of how ‘Their Selly Oak’ used to look in the 2020’s Well done girl on making the record! Kind Regards . . . Andy
Sorry for the delay in replying to you Andy. Thank you for taking me to your Memory Lane. It was a very enjoyable trip! You have a good memory 🙂 When you look at 50s, 60s photographs, you can tell people took pride in their appearances, their shops, their cities. Everything looked clean & tidy. Things have changed. What really gets me is the loss of so many breath-taking buildings. It is very very sad. Thanks so much for watching the video. Take care🙂
Used to love here and love it 20 years ago, amazing to see howmmany shops have changed totally. What is noticeable is the number of Chinese restaurants and shops for Chinese people, we did not have that at all. They must make up a significant proportion of the students. It's a shame that many of the curry houses made way for them.
What a cess pit ! Grew up in Dawlish rd , left late 70s .Went back in 2006, house had blanket for curtains and swastika engraved in door !! to many slumlords.As for Bristol rd shops frontage, tat like Blackpool, this is progress ?😅...this video worse than 2006.Not your fault, love your channel x
Like most of the UK the best high street shopping is a thing of the past, in the 70's Selly Oak had it's own Post Office, Delivery Office, vinyl record shop next to the Dilshad, men's tailors, the best Indian restaurant at that time Chamons, it's own cinema used to go on a Saturday ABC minors, the Gun Barrels pub, I could go on, understand life moves on....
I was up there the other day on the 11th June, I love what they've done with the new Sainsbury's, I bought myself an England cap for a tenner, for the Euro 2021. I never knew there was a canal up that way too, and compared to city centre this one seemed a little more busier. Anyways, stay safe and god bless!!
before they rebuilt that area you could be forgiven for not knowing there was a canal there even if you lived locally. It was tucked away and not made anything of.
I started doing walking tours due to Covid. I couldn't interact with people so I started to tour the city and make videos of Bham past & present. These are a genre of videos that doesn't require to be in contact with people. And people liked it so I carried on. And to be honest, I like exploring new areas. So it is a win/win for me. What I wanted to do initially is documentaries on social issues (homelessness, poverty, small businesses post covid, etc). And is still on the menu btw. I just need to start.
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Fun fact: one of my heels came off 2 mins into the making of this video. All I know is that I was filming with good weather on a Saturday afternoon. I was living my best life when all of a sudden I lost my balance. I looked at my shoes and guess what? One of my heels came off! I looked behind me. The heel was patiently standing in the middle of the road… So I had to rush quickly and get the heel before the green light. Me running with a missing heel. What a spectacle! Lol. So I had to go back home and come back to Bristol Road with (this time) a functioning pair of shoes. So that’s why I made this video at that time…
Dude, no way!
Glad you didnt twist your ankle ! Thankyou for making the video !
This fun fact reminds me of a song, it goes "you picked a fine time to leave me loose heel" ( Lucille) ha ha ha. Here's the song link
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Lucille- Kenny Rogers.
What a video packed full of memorable places! Enthused to see the new canal path along the Worcester and Birmingham Canal - sure that wasn't there when I lived in the area. Nice to see a few of the old shop names are still there e.g. Computer Experts who fixed several items of mine. I used to go to ALDI quite often. Nearly opposite it (26:54) is Delta Pi which I used a lot for art and craft supplies e.g. making birthday cards for people. The little Sainsbury's was a new entry at around the time I left - but went in there some time later to find one of my former 'clients' was working there and looked to be doing well for herself. Which was nice. Meanwhile the Tescos by the petrol station was useful on a Sunday!
The structure at 36:29 I think carries the Bourn Brook under the road. Bournbrook Road meanwhile (39:28) - go up that and then up the hill and that's where I used to live. Good memories.
Man, I do love these videos :D I was up there recently checking out the canal and the new Sainsbury's.
Gonna have me a nice long walk up the cut at some point, to see where it takes me :)
What a beautiful city, never seizes to amaze me Birmingham, the skyline, the shopping & talking about walking, I remember being back in Brum years ago before Snow Hill train station got redeveloped, oh back then in the 80s when this proud city was the manufacturing hub of this great beautiful island, there was GEC osram, Lucas, Metro Cammel, LDV, Longbridge, Ansells, M&B, Castle Bromwich the home of Jaguar where over 90% of the spitfires were produced during World war 2, Bournville the home of Cadburys chocolate where no more than 2 homes were allowed to be alike & no alcohol was allowed to be sold in that part of town, I've heard its still the same policy, yeh we used to walk under Birmingham City centre through Snowhill train station, earie spooky experience, talking about spooky in the North of that great multi cultural city, home to something like 200 different nationalities is a lovely suburb called Pype Hayes, its just next to Sutton Coldfield which itself has 1 of the larges parks in Europe, a lady the same age same time same spot 150 years apart to the dot was found dead, 1 of the top 10 mysteries in the whole wide world, spooky that. Anyway Birmingham is not about being the best it's just an amazing city that I fell in love with. Peace & Love to each & everyone of you ❤
I used to live in Birmingham, I have good memories of that time, I like watching your movies and walking together
Thank you for watching my videos 🙂
Looks different from the last time i was there, love your video's
Have you been up the canal near the new Sainsbury's? I'm gonna have a proper walk up it at some point :D
Hi Joseline thanks for this. As a child I lived in Selly Oak in the 1950’s and 60’s My home was where the Turkish Kitchen is now, Oh boy I can’t believe how shabby the village has become. It’s quite unbelievable just how so much has changed and unfortunately a lot of it not for the better. It used to be a really pleasant village. Shop keepers would wash the shop windows and sweep the foot path outside of their stores every day and of course graffiti haven’t even been thought of back then. Shop names and signs were all discrete mainly hand painted panels along the top of the shop windows. Such a shame the public library has closed. Thanks again, I just wish I could get to see Selly Oak as it used to be back in the 1960’s. I used to be a projectionist at what used to be the Oak Cinema on the main A38 Bristol Road at the top of the village, by Church Lane. It was a beautiful Art Deco building with 1,500 seats. I was working there when we had James Bond starring in the film ‘Goldfinger’. We had a packed house every night, they queued way down the road waiting to get in to see it. The air in the cinema would be thick with cigarette smoke as everybody smoked back then, including the school kids.
As I say thank you for this as hopefully in another 50 years or so folks will be able to look back at your video and have happy, nostalgic, memories of how ‘Their Selly Oak’ used to look in the 2020’s
Well done girl on making the record!
Kind Regards . . . Andy
Sorry for the delay in replying to you Andy. Thank you for taking me to your Memory Lane. It was a very enjoyable trip! You have a good memory 🙂 When you look at 50s, 60s photographs, you can tell people took pride in their appearances, their shops, their cities. Everything looked clean & tidy. Things have changed. What really gets me is the loss of so many breath-taking buildings. It is very very sad. Thanks so much for watching the video. Take care🙂
Used to love here and love it 20 years ago, amazing to see howmmany shops have changed totally. What is noticeable is the number of Chinese restaurants and shops for Chinese people, we did not have that at all. They must make up a significant proportion of the students. It's a shame that many of the curry houses made way for them.
What a cess pit ! Grew up in Dawlish rd , left late 70s .Went back in 2006, house had blanket for curtains and swastika engraved in door !! to many slumlords.As for Bristol rd shops frontage, tat like Blackpool, this is progress ?😅...this video worse than 2006.Not your fault, love your channel x
Like most of the UK the best high street shopping is a thing of the past, in the 70's Selly Oak had it's own Post Office, Delivery Office, vinyl record shop next to the Dilshad, men's tailors, the best Indian restaurant at that time Chamons, it's own cinema used to go on a Saturday ABC minors, the Gun Barrels pub, I could go on, understand life moves on....
I'm just enjoy
Nice video...👌👌👌
Thank you for watching Shahid 🙂
Ah Bristol Raod, used to enjoy the drive all the way down to Stourbridge and beyond....Lol nice weather too hmmmm
Hey ya! Yes, the weather was lovely. I love filming these types of areas - pubs, shops, students & universities. Lol.
@@citiesthroughmyeyes I loved stopping at the pubs to eat pub food and drink some beer in.the gardens with my friends or girlfriend, Lol
Eye lyke Birminnham 👍
Wery nise wideo 👍
Thank you for watching Sajid Hussain 🙂
Vrey.nice
I was up there the other day on the 11th June, I love what they've done with the new Sainsbury's, I bought myself an England cap for a tenner, for the Euro 2021.
I never knew there was a canal up that way too, and compared to city centre this one seemed a little more busier.
Anyways, stay safe and god bless!!
Were you in Birmingham??
@@Quindr7247 Lozells. It's not a bad place despite what people may say lol.
before they rebuilt that area you could be forgiven for not knowing there was a canal there even if you lived locally. It was tucked away and not made anything of.
Good man I'll leave it
Your videos are wonderful, I'd love to know more about you 😊
Thank you. What do you want to know about me?
@@citiesthroughmyeyes why you do these videos? You seem an interesting person...
I started doing walking tours due to Covid. I couldn't interact with people so I started to tour the city and make videos of Bham past & present. These are a genre of videos that doesn't require to be in contact with people. And people liked it so I carried on. And to be honest, I like exploring new areas. So it is a win/win for me.
What I wanted to do initially is documentaries on social issues (homelessness, poverty, small businesses post covid, etc). And is still on the menu btw. I just need to start.
That music is banging
Thank you Jim Connolly.
What’s the name of the first instrument I’m waiting for you one
Dazed Summer by Molife. The names of the songs played are listed in the description.
They are celebrated they're helping you
They are already send me Wally Castle
Other man going to tiger
18:13: "VEGAN", great!
I'm putting the woman betting
Who woman big lover
Yuk... vile discussing place.. you should be ashamed to live in despicable environment