im 38 from birmingham and how time flies the memories

And the roundabout has widened slightly to make it more easier for traffic to use the roundabout

Today there’s a new bournville college on the right side of the picture The car works of longbridge who does rovers and MGs that’s all gone and the old longbridge station building seen on the left is now being demolished And that old bridge seen in the background of the clip that’s been taken away

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Looked like a dump even by this point in time. Sorry but it’s true.

OMG! White people!

95-2007 was the bronx years

I feel sorry for all Brummies around there. I visited Birmingham a while back and would not visit again. I would have visited it in the 80's. It is sad what your city and all cities have become. Another world to the one you remember with great fondness and sadness like mourning a dear old friend. It's called progress apparently. Oh to be a teenager then.

RIP

Look at it now 😢

Not even aston

Old Brian the canoeing instructor I worked with him teaching and building canoes lol

40 years ago, not a dark skin person to be seen! now in 2023 its the exact opposite!! thats a shame!

I worked there on the doors and then engine line in the 90s, I'm Andy Moore any one remember me?

I am from Birmingham, so I'm so sad watching this film i miss the old Birmingham

Oh it is just as dire as I remember it in the 80s. Then they spent a fortune on renovations and it is still dire. And they forgot to spend money on the housing estates, so they have become even worse over time. It is as miserable a place as Nuneaton. And I have lived in both.

Done 10 years 1990 to 2000

The new Bullring centre is a monstrosity.

The Birmingham Council should never have shut this down. what a loss to Birmingham.

Better if there were sound

Does anyone remember a guy called mick who used to be like the guy in the video selling clothes and different things and he wouldvthrow them to you ? X

Brings back a lot of memories. I grew up 1/2 a mile away from Round Oak. Neither of my parents worked there, but it did hit the town hard from what i remember. The clock building on Dudley road was till standing for quite some years after Round Oak closed, there were some small business's in there, a cafe was one. I had a Saturday job at the petrol station in Harts Hill (around 1987 to 1989) and would go there to collect the sandwiches' for the guys in the garage.

Feels like yesterday I was walking around there and it looking like that, but it has changed so much since. Edit: Who remembers Summit records upstairs, and Reddingtons at it's various sites? Tempest etc. Loved shopping for vinyl in Birmingham. I was doing photography as part of my art course and have some great photos from around the Bullring taken in 1985... people doing their chalk art on the streets and the onlookers.

The most famous road in all the Midlands I'd have thought. I remember having to tuck my money away when going through on the bus. Still has significant issues but Handsworth is a vibrant melting pot that eptimoses Brum and I love it.

Left for Australia 1965 glad we did

This is not Aston

Watch a programme called Something else from October 1979 Birmingham episode with fashions and the assembly on the Ramp and Corporation Street and the Studio eight minute nostalgia clip . Unlike today everything was accepted.

Anyone remember Rackhams department store?

Been in handsworth for 40 years seen lot of changes over the years plus great memobrel memories

I love this video

RIP Steelwotks & Merry Hill farm

I love my aunt ❤ SURINDER KAUR BASSI

Excellent video of the fight for rights in the Asian and black communities against the evil Tory government under the abominable Margaret Thatcher/John major etc and her abominable policies driving people into poverty and despair back in 1992 I wish I could have been there in person side by side in their fight for rights God bless each and everyone of these ladies and gentlemen 🙏

Was watching a video from 1977 but 1988 was more my time going for the first time with me dad as a little kid to get me video games of the market there was 2 stalls one at the front and one on the over side on the back 🧱 a young cockney bloke used to sell c64 games then later megadrive I had a relative that ran the fish market though not in the 80s it was the late 60s and 70s

Thanks for posting, remember it well. New as no character and atmosphere. The city planner have killed the heart of the city.

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I worked there in the 70 to 80 . End of a Era skills and skilled men gone forever . Short sighted people in charge.same story with air craft motorcycle and car industry

was a shit hole then, now it is like a sewage works!

Within the last few weeks chain making has been added to the list of critically endangered crafts with only 1-5 professional chainmakers left. You can still see demonstrations of forging chain in Cradley Heath at Mushroom Green. The chainshop there is open to visitors in the summer, on every second sunday of month from 2 pm. The team of volunteers there provide a friendly, educational environment for all ages and visitors themselves often become part of the experience by recounting memories of our industrial past and the chainmakers they knew. Well worth a visit to this unbecoming little hamlet and its hidden link to the past. You will be made very welcome.

Unbelievable how every race background was civil back then, now look at the state of things

This is Lance Ellington singing.

My mom and families neck of the woods.

Excellent video brings back my memories of past.

Still same

Handsworth is wrecked by so many illegal people from Hong Kong now it’s not the same any more.

This is great view of love & life ❤

Birmingham is full of people living on some one else is name illegally fraud and liars coming from other countries especially Pakistanis from Hong Kong it’s not the same like before.

Kfc hahahaha

80s bham was ace.....now look at it.... full of trouble and silly weak gangs killin each other because of postcodes, pathetic. 80s will always be the best...better people, better place, better everythin.

I remember when the bus fare was 2p (some special offer I think)!