1999 Birmingham Bull Ring ITV special report. (Re Development)

[@DofTF]

Just look how vibrant it was, it was like that most days.

[@hajrabibi6292]

Missing theses days badly. Good old days

[@bullringbirminghamnostalgi2527]

Sadly theses days are gone. And they are never coming back.

[@nac6930]

Same I enjoyed the old city, I'm just glad I experienced it and have memories

[@emabegum3817]

I miss the 90s

[@bullringbirminghamnostalgi2527]

Yea, they were good times. I was rocking the G&R t shirt and denim jacket back then, lol.

[@buffetuk]

Should have left the old bullring alone piece of main history gone from Birmingham

[@bullringbirminghamnostalgi2527]

The Bull Ring wouldn’t have survived in 2024. It was falling apart in 1994.

[@stephenroche5107]

Chin that proud of being a Brummie he lives in Solihull.

[@bullringbirminghamnostalgi2527]

I couldn't see Carl Chinn happily living in Ladywood, lol.

[@emabegum3817]

town has lost its character

[@wesstarmedia]

Im all for new and clean, but the new Bull Ring wasnt like for like? It's an ugly building, clad in silver satelite dishes. And it's way too expensive for the small independants. They sold out.

[@bullringbirminghamnostalgi2527]

Something the market store holders predicted would happen decades prior. They have also been priced out the area by over priced rent.

[@stephenroche5107]

Very very sad good days.

[@bullringbirminghamnostalgi2527]

Everything comes to an end unfortunately.

[@stephenroche5107]

@@bullringbirminghamnostalgi2527 But why when it was so good and the row market too.

[@bullringbirminghamnostalgi2527]

@@stephenroche5107 One word. Commercialism. Birmingham wasn’t bringing in the tourism and trade it once did. Footfall was almost non existent. The Bull Ring was becoming run down and the area was very dangerous at night. There was a huge market for redevelopment, tourism and trade snd we needed major investment to bring Birmingham back up to speed. So huge investments were made in key of partnership with Hammerson, Donaldson and the council to bring the BullRing site in to the 20th century like the other cities around the country and Europe. And the rest of Brum has followed suit since along with New Street/ A new railway line, modern buildings, bankers and investors and so on. And tbf they was right. We’ve had higher rates of employment and better infrastructure being built since those days.

[@bullringbirminghamnostalgi2527]

@@stephenroche5107 I loved the old days. But we had to move on. Nothing lasts forever.

[@bullringbirminghamnostalgi2527]

@@stephenroche5107 Put it this way as my own simplified perspective. I moved in to the former home of my Nan and Grandad. I grew up in that house, I loved that house. I had so many happy memories there. But I had to accept that they were gone and they wasn’t coming back. And that home had to change or the condition it was in would only get worse. It was starting to become run down, damp crept in, The guttering was falling apart and some of it was asbestos, It had no wi fi, it was very old fashion looking, The carpets were worn out and it needed a lot of investment to bring it in to the 21st century. It broke my heart to do it but after all that investment it now looks modern and has state of the art technology in the building. I haven’t forgotten that past. I still miss it. I will always love it and I have pictures of those happy days. But I had to move on from it to evolve. That’s just human nature. The world keeps revolving with or without us.

[@mggilleshope6828]

It needed remodeling but it's gone to far. There are more no go areas the market is disappointing.

[@bullringbirminghamnostalgi2527]

mggilles hope Back then it was def a no go area. Today? Not so much.

[@notmyles2883]

where are these no go areas? it looked rough as anything back then, not the case nowadays.