BIRMINGHAM - A City of Change 1960s-1982

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  • Опубликовано: 23 дек 2024

Комментарии • 30

  • @grahamedwards9920
    @grahamedwards9920 2 года назад +7

    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.

    • @wulfhere83
      @wulfhere83 11 месяцев назад

      I lived in Birmingham for 36 years, I live in the Black Country now but I still frequently visit Birmingham.
      The city centre looks much better now they are building some skyscrapers and will all the redevelopment and new tram system, I'm quite proud of my home city in many ways and how far it's come.
      However, it's a nightmare driving into Birmingham city centre now if you don't have a low emissions car. The council is pants as well.

  • @helenday5031
    @helenday5031 3 года назад +4

    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.

  • @silverboots2934
    @silverboots2934 2 года назад +2

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

  • @burtonfootballer5408
    @burtonfootballer5408 3 года назад +10

    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"

    • @scottsvxr
      @scottsvxr Год назад

      Birmingham City Council is now Bankrupt....quite telling really 🤔

  • @DeanPickersgill
    @DeanPickersgill 4 года назад +5

    So many memories, cheers

  • @helenday5031
    @helenday5031 3 года назад +2

    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.

  • @john1703
    @john1703 2 года назад +3

    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 !! 😭

  • @angelacooper2661
    @angelacooper2661 2 года назад

    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!

  • @fearfactorymark
    @fearfactorymark Год назад +3

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

    • @see6052
      @see6052 3 месяца назад

      It's wider society in general. Brum is no different to anywhere in the UK

  • @tellitlikeitis-rg4ny
    @tellitlikeitis-rg4ny Год назад +3

    Its like lahore now

  •  20 часов назад

    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.

  • @ef7480
    @ef7480 3 года назад +12

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

    • @stephenroche5107
      @stephenroche5107 Год назад +1

      This country was rebuilt on immigration post war you silly arse.

  • @iamroleypoleyman
    @iamroleypoleyman 11 лет назад +4

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

  • @davidnarbett
    @davidnarbett 10 лет назад +2

    Amazing film

  • @Afro3461
    @Afro3461 Год назад +1

    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!

  • @willbonn608
    @willbonn608 10 лет назад +2

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

  • @scottsvxr
    @scottsvxr Год назад

    KRO 💙 the only thing left of the City

  • @davidnarbett
    @davidnarbett 10 лет назад

    He was probably a Time Traveller

  • @geraldhutchins1023
    @geraldhutchins1023 10 лет назад +3

    I think what was and is now what a pissa

  • @zulu59blue27
    @zulu59blue27 4 года назад +3

    Before colonisation!

    • @_B.M_
      @_B.M_ 3 года назад +1

      Wrong. Colonisation was what the British did. This is payback!