I'm originally from Coventry just down the road on the A45 and the same with my city because the sixties was a fabulous decade to live in and everything was clean and tidy and people looked very well dressed and appeared safe in large crowds with no danger of experiencing being harassed as to what has happened in future times.

1:43 I remember waiting for those buses when the buildings on the left were being constructed and the Bull Ring,the library and Rotunda had yet to be developed. Not quite as idyllic as the pictures portray even then; many beautiful buildings had been torn down. Construction sites accompanied by the sound of pneumatic drills and pile driving were paving the way to a dystopian future of making car king and wrecking public transport 😡

1964 - might as well be 1064. A recording of a vanished world.

The city I grew up in before it was culturally enriched.

*City* centre, not town

My Uncle ran a pub in the city centre called The Brooke Vaults (sp) on Jamaica Row round about the time of this footage.

Remember this very well, good video 😊

My god what have we given up

I'm a Brummie born in 1960, as a child my Mom would take me 'into town' every Saturday for shopping and by that i mean a bus trip into the city centre for meat from the indoor meat market & fruit & veg from the outdoor market and if I'd been good I'd get a Knickerbocker Glory from the little cafe just inside the indoor Bull Ring market.....Brum was a lovely city back in the day it was friendly it was safe and it was vibrant .... Lovely memories ❤

No pakis

I was raised in Chelmsford from 1968 and remember it more or less as depicted in this film. A fascinating piece and everything looked much cleaner , tidier and nicer. And so did the people. Thanks for sharing.

It wasn’t even all that back then. Our architects sure got crap, just like politicians.

Far better than it is now

Very enjoyable it seemed cleaner then a different era , no rubbish seemed easier then less cars on the roads ….

Even though the Bull Ring then was just lots of concrete, it still looks better, cleaner and more inviting than now. I was born in this year and I remember when I was only 11 I could take myself off to the centre from Quinton on the number 3 bus on my own, with no worries. I even remember when I started driving in the early 80’s you could go for a drive through the centre and up Corporation Street on a Sunday and it was empty and relaxing. Such a shame how with the progression of time we’ve actually gone backwards, to an extent that the city is such a hell hole now and a no go for most, well it felt like this when I visited two years ago, maybe it’s just because I escaped 25 years ago to West Wales to give my children a better, safer upbringing 😢.

Wonderful video. Bravo! Well done. Thank you.

Wow, what a shit hole this country has become, overrun with delinquency and incompetency, us Brits are truly screwed 🥴.

I've never been a fan of the 1974 imposition of the so-called 'county' of West Midlands. I don't mind local services being organised and administered on a wider basis but, dear bureaucrats, please keep our historic county boundaries. These towns definitely belong in Warwickshire!

All the nice British cars so lovely to see in this nice village. Grease from Holland, the Netherlands. Nice film.

When life was good ! Can we bring it back ?

Very strange to see my Dad looking in a shop window! Thank you.

Eastern National KSW@ 1.54🎉 and an FLF @2.20 bravo🎉 couple more K types @ 4.3

Midland Red D7 @ 5.07 Cracking film , thanks🎉 Midland Red LD8 @ 7.20 We made a few ugly looking cars in those times; good to see the French are carrying on where we left off🎉😂😂

Hollands For your MOT and the Forest to grab a Granny.

I was born at home in Bentley Heath in 1963. I have a vague recollection of both Dorridge and Knowle. We moved to Northfield in 1969 and two years later to Pembrokeshire..

not the shit hole, it is today, with all the foreigners we've got now

Kind of weird to think most people you see here are deceased 😢

I live near here and it's fascinating to see what has changed, and indeed what has not changed over the years..Thanks for posting, more please...

I was born in sorrento hospital then 😊

Sound mate, I'm 74 and all this rings bells.

No now it's looks like a shit old I worked in the market for over 35 years now it's a jungle

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Those great get on or off anywhere buses!!!

The woman in blue pushing the pram ...... So slim , as they all were back then . What happened to people ? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

I was born in Lower Essex St and raised in Highgate . This is how I remember my once great City of Birmingham . 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Everyone is white. What a beautiful place. Now it's completely s..t brown.

lots of familiar images from days gone by! thanx some of the bus numbers i didnt recognise, nor shops. I was only a nipper at the time!

Birmingham was also like this - pretty much - in the 1950s, 1970s and 1980s. Then something changed. I wonder what it could have been….

Wonderful film, brum was a lot cleaner then x

Would have been nice with a bit of brum beat ….jimmy Powell.

I miss the old birmingham so much 😢

Cars have been banned from most of the roads shown on this video. Great video - nice to see traffic flowing for once.

The younger Brummie generation will never know how brilliant and friendly the city centre once was.

This looks better than it is now. It's taken me this long to realise the former Bull Ring Shopping Centre was better in nearly everywhere than the new one. It just got neglected for some reason. I remember those gardens by the Bull Ring but never saw it looking that pristine...

This must be fake wheres all the migrants? and trans people?

wow ;D love it

The buildings were dirty but the people were clean. Now the buildings are clean and the people are dirty.

Not one migrant or tents. Class.

I lived in Coventry till 1979 and a trip to Birmingham (usually by train) was always an adventure. This video is pretty much how I remember it. It's nothing like that today, and not in a good way.

very familiar