A History Of Birmingham

[@golden.lights.twinkle2329]

Amazing documentary with a wonderful narrator. I was born and lived in nearby Coventry but for some reason I always loved Birmingham. I shopped at Rackhams, went to concerts at Birmingham Town Hall, ice-skated at the Silver Blades ice-rink, attended college in Aston, and at one point worked for Dunlop at their Fort Dunlop factory. Birmingham is a great city that has unfortunately always fallen in the shadow of London.

[@RGeorgeDore]

This country has always been a little too 'London centric' IMHO. I hate what has become of my hometown has been ruined by the PC alphabet brigade that statue of the ' new nuclear family' near the Repertory Theater made my heart sink. No small wonder that city has declared itself bankrupt - these projects are a good 'smoke screen' for the corruption IMHO.

[@richard.s1975]

@@RGeorgeDoreyou don’t sound humble..

[@richard.s1975]

@@RGeorgeDoreyou’re not humble in the slightest. Birmingham has changed since you and I were young. Good!

[@stevenshackleford5630]

Thank you for the upload. It is hard to find anything like this on Birmingham's history. Made in 1992, it's actually now a vision of Birmingham's past because it's surprising to note just how much has changed in and around the city since the documentary was made.

[@stermindelves4251]

As a proud Brummie who left there some 20 years ago it has changed beyond belief and for the better

[@classicepisodesofcrimewatc9971]

@@stermindelves4251 how bad was Birmingham back in the day? If you say it's changed for the better... To me, Brum pales in comparison big time to other cities I've lived in or connected to. Especially the grotty city centre! But a lot of building work going on so maybe be a bit more sleek in coming years! & i also notice a distinct lack of beautiful and eye catching historical buildings as you go through the city centre.

[@ajs41]

@@stermindelves4251 It's a bit plastic now. Shiny on the surface.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

@@classicepisodesofcrimewatc9971 & months ago grotty City center, well I don't think you have visited Birmingham mate as it is very modern, green City center

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

@@classicepisodesofcrimewatc9971 Well you do not know much about Birmingham then do you, if Birmingham modern rebuilt City Center is grotty to you I dread what you think London is like.

[@patcomyns4326]

I was born in 1948 and lived in woodcock street, Gosta Green. We lived next door to Mays shop and Woodcock Street Swimming and washing baths were very close. I still dream of living there, comforting although we were relatively poor.

[@Sameoldfitup]

“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams.

[@simontalbot6088]

Feel a twinge of nostalgia. I was born in Solihull. But we always worked in Brum or went '' up town " of a weekend. Having spent twenty odd yrs in the North I feel I love that more, but this did pull the heart strings.

[@RGeorgeDore]

I moved to London 30 years ago and feel very much the same; although I'll not return to live there.

[@afzaalkhan.m]

Lovely narration and tour of historical areas of Birmingham, so informative for foreign visitors. Thank you

[@timvins]

Amazing how in thirty years the city can and has changed so much, Cadbury no longer independent, Rover gone, slums returned, central library and Bull Ring redeveloped, Wholesale market gone, central city shops empty. My last visit was very sad, other than the Bull ring shopping Mall, most of the centre was in disrepair.

[@RGeorgeDore]

I keep getting lost in the silly one way systems ...

[@meteoman7958]

I traced my Birmingham ancestors back to 1500 with possible earlier members back to the beginnings of records. They were silversmiths, brass workers and some historical figures who left their genes in the youngest members of the royal family. During my genealogical research, I also transcribed city directories for the Internet and got to know the city very well as a result. It was quite a journey.

[@CBEnoddyy]

My family name dates back to the Norman invasion of 1066, and as an manufacturing engineer I am proud to be from Birmingham. But after watching this I feel sad how Birmingham has changed over the last 40 years.

[@meteoman7958]

@@CBEnoddyy Dingby would be a Viking name with it's by ending.

[@petervickery7027]

@@meteoman7958 The Normans were Vikings. (Norseman)

[@meteoman7958]

@@petervickery7027 Hi Peter, nice to see the thread is still alive.

[@mikegray8776]

Thanks for uploading - this was really fascinating - and most of the ancient info was completely new to me !! Well done !!

[@JulianSava]

Interesting story about Birmingham !

[@sampochin]

Fascinating. Love the old pictures

[@phillipbanksvideo]

I was born and raised in Birmingham, but never told of the one man who made the city thrive, who created the 'Forward Spirit' that turned a little hamlet into the Workshop of the World. 'Peter de Berminghame' - now a Musical.

[@joeblack8915]

Peter de Berminghame, No doubt a Norman (I spit) - his name meaning 'Of Birmingham', and certainly not named after him. It has older Old English origins, and means 'Beorm's People's Settlement'.

[@john1703]

The captains of industry were Boulton, Murdoch and Watt. Their golden statue is on Broad Street.

[@RGeorgeDore]

Has anyone noticed that they moved it to just across the road nearer to the Rep and that awful statue of the new LGBGTQRST family?@@john1703

[@dizzysteve256]

I was born in erdington in 1965 I now live in Blackpool I will always have fond memories of the old bull ring and the rag market 🙂

[@musiclover5023]

Interesting, loved going to Blackpool from Birmingham in the mid 1970s.

[@peakyblinder777]

@dizzysteve256 - i did similar 👍

[@ianbeddowes5362]

I, my sister, both my parents and three of my grandparents were born in Birmingham. My maternal grandfathers mother was a Castle, Birmingham Quakers and on the direct male line we can trace back to a Charles Beddowes born in Handsworth in the 1700s. My maternal grandfather, Harry Kershaw was export accounts manager for the BSA during the 1950s and 1960s.

[@Salamantine]

all that back trace of your race for what? Is that make you a racist? Do you feel some sort of false superiority just for the fact that you were born in this place?

[@classicepisodesofcrimewatc9971]

@@Salamantine weirdo. Grow up

[@richard.s1975]

@@Salamantinewow.. get a grip! They are proud of their hometown. My hometown! Only you mentioned race..

[@Choppa11111]

@@Salamantinesounds like you’re the racist one

[@markhemming318]

The architecture inside Victoria Law, courts is something to behold.

[@rachelmac2094]

As bang up goes, that's probably as bad as it gets.

[@thomasnewton8997]

It's a shame that all the industry that Birmingham had has now been sold or closed down

[@RGeorgeDore]

Successive governments comprising of crooked and shortsighted career politicians GUTTED our manufacturing, steel and coal industries by order of their paymasters.

[@alysonconnoly]

Very informative and enjoyable

[@DeanPickersgill]

What a fascinating history of your town, thanks.

[@alottoftea]

50:52 (Don't mind me - just marking my time. I'll delete later.) Edit: This video is so explanatory. I've recently moved to Birmingham from London to study and I've never seen anything like it! Every time I find out something new I just love it a little bit more. 💙

[@freqvisionuk]

mark away! hope you enjoy the video :)

[@maxt8859]

Houston's mccaine ...twat

[@curtiscarpenter9881]

Coming from Birmingham this was eye opening when I watched it a year ago and it was just as so, now! I think Birmingham has a lot of potential and will become even better and add even more to its history.

[@catkatzi3320]

Excellent, thanks for this video!

[@nocturnalmusiclover1530]

Really interesting video of Birminghams past. Constantly evolving this city.

[@alanware3512]

During the civil war. A company name Alldays and Onions, made armour and cannon ball for Cromwell.

[@RGeorgeDore]

Something to be both proud AND ashamed of.

[@alwoodsmodellingmayhem]

Thanks for sharing this.

[@Skullandrumit]

Superb ! Thank you.

[@seventytrees73]

Recognised most of the places. Nice to see it as I remembered it. Hardly recognisable now :-( Nice relaxed pace, allowing time to take it all in. No problem with the choice of music as far as I'm concerned.

[@sekharguzlan1585]

Great film and narration! I love it!

[@Brunosdad]

That Birmingham forward statue was an absolute embarrassment (48:03) for such a great city.

[@evertonporter7887]

I still have a picture of this statue from the late 1980s, before it was destroyed by fire a few years later.

[@mlguy8376]

@@evertonporter7887 if it was the beige statute I loved it as a kid running over it and climbing it (probably not what was intended) it did smell of piss from time to time - but it was burnt down much more than a few years later.

[@barnowl.]

G'Day from Australia. An interesting video for me as some of the localities mentioned were lived in by my distant ancestors.

[@squishy4life447]

I was going to say that I was crying at first everything's changed I had to move because of this problem

[@madcarew5168]

There was nothing like piling out of a concert at the town hall,dodging the traffic determined to run over as many as possible!!!

[@Freetheworld58]

Watching in 2020 Edit: Oops i meant 2021!

[@ellemontgomery5262]

I really enjoyed this,thank you.

[@britishbengaltiger2749]

@10:14 Glaring historical error in the documentary: "King Charles I was eventually defeated in 1669..." The year was 1649, not 1669.

[@christinechadwick3617]

Brilliant narration, so enjoyable and informative

[@Angelicum7]

Cadburys is now American and Bournville is little more than a distribution centre. The Austin at Long bridge is now a new housing estate with a town centre. MG is all that is left and that is owned by the Chinese. The fantastic library is now some fancy giant wedding cake since they redeveloped the site. The Bull Ring is now gone and a new one put in its place, not the same atmosphere without the market by the church. Not much left of the Brum I knew. As James Dodd's sang on stage in 1828, I" can't find Brummagem". Sad really that it has all gone, yet again.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

Get your facts right, although Cadbury's is owned by Mondolaze International a part of Kraft Foods, the Bournville Factory in Birmingham produces Chocolate and also distributes it, it is the main Cadbury Factory for around the world and has never stopped making Chocolate.

[@egbront1506]

​@@peterwilliamallen1063 I see. That must be why a lot of Cadbury's sold in the UK is made in Poland, because Bournville cannot keep up with local demand where somehow it managed it quite well before the takeover.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

@@egbront1506 No Cadbury Chocolate Bar is made in Poland now as production of Chocolate was moved from Europe to Bournville about 6 months ago, what is made in Poland is Milka Chocolate.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

@@egbront1506 What you are on about was in 2006 or there about, but about 5 years ago Mondolaz moved Cadbury Diary Milk Chocolate Production Back to Bournville Birmingham as did they from Germany 18 months ago to Angeler Merkle's disgust

[@Tamarlane389]

Birmingham has always been a city of change, I don’t understand people who not only reject change but are affronted by it.

[@paulsmith-xt6sh]

Very interesting

[@AC30905]

I cannot lie the Birmingham (Brummie) accent has to be my favourite brittish accent in all of the uk. It just sounds so exaggerated and loud.

[@mariegriffiths]

I presume you are American. You might hear the accent in Peaky Blinders.

[@stretchclogg]

@@mariegriffiths or a close approximation! My Brummie accent has gone up in the world thanks to Peaky Blinders!

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

@@mariegriffiths No you wont because they get it mixed up with a Black Country Accent like every one else does.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

@@mariegriffiths I dought it, I am a Brummie and when programmes like peaky Blinders try to recreate the Brummie accent, they always talk in a black country accent

[@Salamantine]

just speak proper normal english you idiots

[@chadwilliams8878]

‘The remains of these early pioneers remain under the bull ring centre’ .. the most interesting part for me.. why ? How? Is the bull ring built on top of this grave/mound? It seems to be a similar story people building intop of land which holds some sort of importance in terms of energy and geographic position … interesting.

[@RGeorgeDore]

That is VERY interesting indeed; I'd be curious to find out if there are any lay-lines near-about.

[@richard.s1975]

@@RGeorgeDore…

[@carlmaster9690]

Birmingham is full of history. I know a lot of Birmingham because I was born there. Birmingham's location is strategically important been in the centre of the country. I didn't know that Birmingham led the country in capitalism and free trade. It wouldn't suprise me if America took the trade model from Birmingham. Birmingham has a ship canal linking it to the Severn Estuary. But its not as well known as the Manchester Ship Canal.

[@markhemming318]

The Americans did take the trade model from Birmingham, or certainly parts of it. I think it may have been Lincoln who sent an emissary over to learn the way.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

Birmingham has not got a ship canal linking to the Severn Estuary, it has only got the canals that link into the River Severn at Stourport on Severn. Don't know where you got that idea from because it is not true, Manchester has a ship canal linking it to the River Mersey take from a Brummie of 60 odd years.

[@musiclover5023]

@@peterwilliamallen1063 Birmingham hasnt got a big ship canal like Manchester, but it's still got little canals and little boats.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

@@musiclover5023 Are you blind, I said Birmingham has not got a ship canal only normal canals that join the River Severn at Stourport on Severn, it was carlmaster97 who stated that silly fact.

[@musiclover5023]

@@peterwilliamallen1063 What did I say that was wrong other than repeating what you had written, now that's a puzzle? No I am not blind nor stupid !

[@tom85078]

best film on Birmingham .............

[@jhvoojh]

What happened on Summer Row? The biggest legacy of Birmingham.

[@martinwragg8246]

I help build the mudguard machine at 13 min. BJC Mudguards 14 Floodgate St Digbeth.

[@GT380man]

I wondered what that machine & input material led to! I now see that swaged plate is to be perfectly shaped into presumably car mudguards. Too wide to have been for motorcycles of the day. My 1970s motorcycles have mudguards like those, only smaller obviously.

[@martinwragg8246]

@@GT380man The mudguards you see being fabricated are for trailers with tandem wheels. Brian Cutts did also make all kinds of motorcycle mudguards mainly for vintage bikes.

[@beckyzwhite]

5:55 There has been an inn on the site of The Old Crown since 1368. The building featured in a mock Tudor construction built in the 19th century. That style of architecture did not exist until at least a century later.

[@jeffynews1770]

I live in frankly and the rea runs through it a and we have a hill called the Waslys and the rea,starts there

[@seventytrees73]

As a child I used to squelch through the mud where the rea oozes out of the ground on the slopes of the Waseleys.

[@ahmedatbi4173]

great city

[@RGeorgeDore]

For all of it's faults; you are right.

[@veronicalogotheti1162]

Thank you

[@peterbattey8263]

Well done Birmingham! built the NEC & ICC then sold for a pittance and so lost the revenue it could still be earning

[@RGeorgeDore]

You've fallen into THEIR trap be citing incompetence - these people are crooks and know exactly what they're doing.

[@john1703]

Unfortunately "The Austin" (like BSA) and even the 1960's Bull Ring Centre are long gone (2022), let alone properly liveried buses (dark blue and cream). The Swan is no longer in Yardley. Matthew Boulton Technical College is no longer so named, merely a campus of something larger. From Suffolk Street to Sherlock Street and now Jennens Road. Brum is forever changing!

[@Tamarlane389]

The Swan (centre) is still in yardley, I live right near it.

[@richard.s1975]

Well the city motto is “forward”. So I hope it does

[@bernarddavies4145]

Corporation Street is still a building site now

[@tobyfletcher6803]

they will never stop building in Birmingham ever.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

Since when!

[@thomasnewton8997]

Those bombers were looking for the spitfire factory wich my great uncle worked in helping making spitfires for WW2

[@Holy_hand-grenade]

Really not the music I’d associate with Birmingham, but OK.

[@davidpendry7731]

My fathers side of the family moved from Hereford looking for work during the industrial revolution settling in Aston and Handsworth

[@peterwhitaker4038]

i always remember quotes from people in the 1960.s about their cities and just who is the second city, manchester said 'we are second city' Birmingham said 'you are wrong 'we are the second city'. a guy from Liverpool got up and said well we all know in liverpool that London is the second city!'

[@RGeorgeDore]

That's why I love scousers; and so surprised that they 'folded' so quickly for the ULEZ 91DIVOC bull-excrement

[@richard.s1975]

@@RGeorgeDorebless your tiny heart! It must be exhausting being you.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

Officialy now Birmingham is the UK's second City and Second largest City due to it's population of 1.5 million citizens

[@matthewemery1153]

my dad use to talk about the germans bombings and how you could time it to the minute

[@markdelacruz568]

Peaky fooking blinders

[@chriscoughlan5221]

this video is overdue an update!!!

[@MarkAnslow]

2024 and the Council gone bust. Born and bred in Brum but unrecognisable now. The best things about growing up in Brum are long gone now never to return. Sad to see. But great video this.

[@thomasnewton8997]

I am Birmingham born and bread and I think that its a shame that England has sold off all its industry or its closed almost everything we buy in England is impoded and made in China or America or elsewhere

[@official_ashhh]

Brum vrum 🇬🇧

[@TrevKen]

Birmingham, home of the original anarcho-capitalists

[@RGeorgeDore]

I would say that it's quite to opposite. Birmingham is home to the NWO Globalist scumbags...IMHO

[@fredflintstoner596]

Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plains?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"

[@nitscreations4819]

This is under management by The Peaky Fokin Blinders

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

Oh Grow up, Peaky Blinders TV series is crap, not even filmed in Birmingham. It is filmed in Liverpool, Manchester and the Black Country Museum in Dudley.

[@Tamarlane389]

@@peterwilliamallen1063 in the coming years, there will be a film production lot that will be made in the city. So Peaky Blinders may yet be filmed in Birmingham.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

@@Tamarlane389 The Peaky Blinders is fictional and there was no such family called the Shelby's plus the series has now finished

[@Tamarlane389]

@@peterwilliamallen1063 I didn’t say it was real. I said Birmingham will have a studio for filming in the years to come. How did you get that from my comment? And since you brought it up. they were real, not sure about Shelbys, but the gang certainly was. So says our very own Carl Chinn, the Brum master.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

@@Tamarlane389 And why are you so hung up on the Peaky Blinders, it has finished and yes the BBC and a Private film company are building Film Studios in the Digbeth area. No there was no such thing as the peaky Blinders, try looking them up there is no reference to a Gang called the Peaky Blinders in any History Book or Video of Birmingham and definitely no family called the Shelby's. There were Gangs in Birmingham in the Edwardian era, but they were Pick pockets and there were loads who used flick knives, no one gang ruled Birmingham and they definitely did not ride around on Horses with shot guns or machine guns over their shoulders, the name Peaky blinder refers to a fashion of the time which was bought about by young blokes at the time that had a quiff of Hair that covered one of their eyes which they then wore a peak cap over the quiff which only allowed them to look out of one eye hence the term " Peaky Blinder". I am a Brummie of 66 years and have loads of books and videos of Birmingham as my interest is the history of my City and there is no mention of any gang called the Peaky Blinders or the Shelby Family, so don't go down the road of be leaving they exist they are just fictitious.

[@Qaziharoon]

Big different I was go 3 time Sunday market just for look around in 2010 I still remember town around area 2013 back Pakistan

[@niceuneasy]

All brummies should watch this

[@matthewemery1153]

at 2623 i have a picture of that place by r d pratt

[@tobjizl]

26:23

[@evertonporter7887]

Birmingham in 2623 should be an interesting place, maybe someone watching a channel similar to youtube will look back on the good old days of 2020...

[@RGeorgeDore]

Let's hope the same fate befalls that sausage fingered muppet tooo...

[@stevenmcguinness4751]

Christ Birmingham is unrecognisable from this footage now. We’ve come so far in 30 Years.

[@throwow1014]

Steven McGuinness so far behind?

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

@@throwow1014 So far Forward

[@RGeorgeDore]

@@peterwilliamallen1063Think again Sir🤔 unless you have around £1.2 billion to spare which would go a long way to bailing the Council crooks out.

[@davidhancox6946]

Where can i get a copy of this?

[@elyseturner5662]

???????

[@freqvisionuk]

This video was found in A second hand shop

[@benjamincre8287]

No wonder we've been gangsta trippin over old ghosts. Thanks for helping me to retrace my steps BAJC 💚🕊️🙏🏼🌈

[@chrisconnor8086]

thanks youtube

[@freqvisionuk]

Your welcome!

[@matthewemery1153]

were norton motorcycles built here

[@davehopkin9502]

Yes - In Bradford St originally

[@matthewemery1153]

THX MY DAD WORKED THERE AFTER THE AFTER THE WAR, HE WON A FREE CRUISE BY THE BRITISH NAVY

[@jhvoojh]

No, Norton have always been built in Worcestershire

[@jhvoojh]

Dave Hopkin Matchless on Bradford St

[@TheBrummiedoug]

Bracebridge Street until early sixties then down to Plumstead SE London

[@antman5474]

And that's woy Brummies am considerably richer than yow.

[@RGeorgeDore]

Nice one🤣

[@squishy4life447]

Berminjam😊

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

Bermingham/ Birmingham, there is no J in our Cities name and has never been

[@bradallen8909]

We all know why it went downhill.

[@RGeorgeDore]

Dammed straight...

[@johnbowkett80]

👍👍👍👍👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@markmorrid8144]

Errr yeh 😢

[@AndrewStandley-bp2lx]

Progress.

[@RC-ei8jb]

Please explain why it went down hill. I’m a brummie, I now live in Australia. I’ve studied Birmingham history for 40 years. Birmingham has been one of the most diverse and defiant cities for centuries. What do you mean by going down hill? I’m not being smart, my family is still there

[@tobyfletcher6803]

3.08 i thought Peter Gabriel was going to start Sledgehammer

[@Nockalates]

No mention of William Hutton. Thats strange.

[@davidpendry7731]

Why didn’t Aston Hall get a mention ?? Thomas Holte was sheriff for Warwickshire and collected taxes for King Charles 1st The hall was attacked by the Rounheads in the civil war and the damaged staircase remains

[@veronicaboyce6794]

All sorts.

[@rhemersoncastelodutra6577]

Queria saber sobre os PEAKY BLINDERS, história da família shelby, alguém pode me explicar em português? Abraço do Brasil

[@freqvisionuk]

pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaky_Blinders

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

Forget about The Peaky Blinders, take it from a Birmingham Citizen, Peaky Blinders is a stupid TV series that is not even filmed in Birmingham and does not truly show what Birmingham was like in that era, if you believe what you see of Peaky Blinders you will believe any thing.

[@musiclover5023]

@@peterwilliamallen1063 don't be too hard on.him and if he believes anything about PB, he's Brazilian.

[@Terence-zb5cb]

Born watery lane 1947 Ada road school remember going to school in all weather's leaving and going to work on the railway real people not like today lazy snowflakes wish I could go back in time

[@RGeorgeDore]

You and me both Terence...There's a lot to be said for a simpler life.

[@dumdropdumdrop]

...and not a stone's throw is tea and chocolates

[@pr3st0n25]

we all here for online lessons

[@michaelburman9705]

Charles 1ST was executed in 1649 and then there was a republic until Charles 2nd became king

[@Sameoldfitup]

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[@mg7798]

🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@togodbetheglory4919]

1:55

[@joewall2545]

This was what it’s all about how the worlds people have managed to fuck it up is ur guess I reckon ❤😮

[@joewall2545]

Maybe it’s change for change 😉

[@courtfarm1]

Look at it now, would not live there now if it was free !!!!

[@jhvoojh]

Sketchy history, but Thanks!!

[@tombirmingham7033]

Hey!

[@tombirmingham7033]

I would like to visit that dank musty Castle

[@tombirmingham7033]

I want reparations. LOL

[@hsloon4253]

Good but you said Birmingham wrong

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

It was spelt " Bermingham " original as per the video, how it was pronounced there is no record of it.

[@adamplays7049]

hi

[@thomasnewton8997]

The only thing that England still makes is beer

[@RGeorgeDore]

...and excuses...

[@thomashearnden163]

It’s not bermingham it’s Birmingham

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

It was Called Bermingham in medieval times, the Name Birmingham is the modern name, look at the history of Birmingham on Google. Take it from a Brummie who reads the History of Birmingham

[@davidspears1452]

🤣love it

[@Salamantine]

it s Birminghstan to be more precise

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

@@Salamantine OH DODDO DOODO extinct like the real DODDO, why precisely do you call it Birmingstan, Firstly there are only 4 well known names Birmingham is named, Bermingham, Brummagem, Brum and Birmingham, if you are getting racist my friend, what you need to know is that there are over 1.5 million citizens living in Birmingham, of which only 10% are of Muslim origin, the other people of Colour living in Birmingham are Indians, Some Pakistan people are Christian and West Indian with the majority of Birmingham Citizens being White. We in Birmingham, the vast majority are not racist, we are tolerant because Birmingham being where the Industrial revolution started imported labour from all over the UK including Ireland, so us Brummies are multicultural, my family alone on my Fathers side came from Shrewsbury and my Mother came from London, yet I am a proud Brummie. Like I say to any one, it seems you do not live in Birmingham or ever visited Birmingham yet you make a stupid comment after watching a 50 min video about Birmingham in the 1970's, well mate it is 2021 now, the opening shot of the "Bullring Shopping Centre" is already out of date and history as all that has gone and been rebuilt with only the Rotunda remaining. Look at other Cities in the World all have ethnic populations living there and try substantiating you stupid comment.

[@musiclover5023]

@@peterwilliamallen1063 Dear Peter, I enjoyed reading your very Educated reply to "Dodo" I am Birmingham born and I adore what the authorities have done to redevelop my Birthplace. Mom.used to take us kiddies shopping every Saturday to Bull Ring and I always liked it at first but after three or four hours in town, well you know how some kids are, they want to go home. Always enjoyed riding our blue and cream open entrance Buses built by Sidney Guy of Guy motors fame. My friend Kevin went cartwheeling down.the pavement one Saturday , he didn't wait for the number 90 Bus to stop first as it approached the bus stop in Heathfield road, Handsworth doing 20mph he just jumped off the platform ! Birmingham has come a very long way from.its inception welcoming people from all over this planet. I am.living in the city of Fortaleza, Brazil now, lots of people here know my City because of Aston Villa, Makes me proud. !

[@mrtrollnator123]

I wish it remained destroyed after prine Rupert razed it to the ground

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

It was noy razed to the ground other wise it would not be around now

[@mrtrollnator123]

@@peterwilliamallen1063 it was it prob got rebuilt after 300 years

[@buffi944]

She is incorrect

[@ladymeghenderson9337]

Beautiful victorian buildings were demolished to make way for the ugly buildings we see now, todays central library is less attractive than the one opened in 1973, and that was ugly enough. Victoria Square is a mess. I think the very early residents of saxons and Norman times, the parliamentarians of, Birmingham, who fought so hard to defend their town, people like Matthew Bolton, would look on Birmingham, if they could, and say 'what a dump, why did we bother?' Oh and you forgot to mention Weoley Castle

[@RGeorgeDore]

And those stupid Fookin statues; the one of the new nuclear family outside the Rep really boils my ur!ne

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

So in your feeble mind is Birminghm a dump.

[@ladymeghenderson9337]

@@peterwilliamallen1063 I do not have a feeble mind, we all see things differently, and yes Birmingham is a dump, because alot of the beautiful buildings have been taken away, it is cluttered and lacks character

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

@@ladymeghenderson9337 Well you may not have a feeble mind as you explained, but you seem to know nothing abouty Birmingham or have visited Birmingham. I have lived in Birmingham all 69 years of my life and worked all my life in Birmingham and I am not sure what as you put it " beautiful buildings" have been taken away. I can tell you Birmingham from the end of the War through the 1950's to the end of the 1960's was a right dump full of slums, bck to back houses, smelly Gas Works, factories,second world war bomb sites and no green areas at all, even the picture at the state of the 1963 Bull Ring Centre ended up from being Europes modernist Shopping Mall to being a dump and finnly being demolished and replaced by the new present Bullring/Grand Central Shopping Centre. Now a brief history for ypou as you don't know much about Birmingham, from the end of the 1960's and the start of the 1970's Birmingham City Council ripped the heart out of Birmingham Council Housing by demolishing all the slums and back to back houses by rebuilding Aston, Newtown and Ladywood with new Council Houses and Flats, they then built new Housing estates in Bromford, The Maypole and Kingsheath areas of Birmingham incorporating green areas and parks making Birmingham the Greenest City in the UK and Europe, they thn built ver spill housing in Daventry, Tamworth and Chelmsley Wood w for Birmingham Citizens which thinned out Birminghams population but still kept it at arround 1.5 million citizens making Birmingham the second largest City in the UK. Next Birmingham City Council rebuilt the City Centre especialyy arround Centinery Square and the Town Hall, the Bullring centre as mentione, pedestrianised the City Centre, bulit the midland metro through the City Centre removing car and bus traffic resulting in a clean modern cosmopolitan City and City Centre, to put you right no as you put it beautiful buildings were demolished as these edwardian archetecture buildings exist arround St Phillips Cathedral, Colemore Row, leading over to the Jewelery Quarter, even the derelict Grand Hotel on Colemore Row was rebuilt and opened. The old Library by the Town Hall was demolished due to it's bad state and being in the way of a major redevelopement including a road tunnel and was not worthy of being a major librry in the UK's second City and even that is now in a new position and the 3rd library in central Birmingham and is now the largest public Library in Europe, so NO @ladymeghenderson9337 Birmingham is NOT a dump as proved by the thousands who visit our German Xmas Market every year the largest authentic German Xmas Market outside of Germany, the millions of visitors who visited Birmingham during the 2022 Commonwealth Games and a lot still vist Birminghm now, the fact that the European Atheletics chapionship games are comming to Birmingham in 2026 the first time these games have been held outside mainland Europe due in part to the outright sucess of the said Commonwelth Gmes and the Fact Birmingham is on the shortlist to hold Prince Harry's invictus Games. If you look at other Birmingham Video's foreghn people have looked at Brum and are astonished how beautiful Birmingham is now and the video you are watching is showing Birmingham of the past 6 years ago, so as I said it seems you actually know nothing of my modern Birmingham or have even bothered to vist Birmingham because you are talking utter rubbish. Believe me I have witnessed the transformation f Birmingham as a dump in the 50's and 60's to today's modern City.

[@alunwilliams1191]

king charles the first beheaded january 1649

[@daig8817]

Shame its now birmingstan

[@finneyomalley]

Notice how Birmingham city football club didn’t get a mention!!! Mind you they are an embarrassment!!!

[@elyseturner5662]

SOTV

[@maxt8859]

The sh1te did tho...even more an embarrassment...KRO...SOTV

[@Terence-zb5cb]

How stupid this comment is probably a villa fan but Birmingham city is Birmingham fact

[@finneyomalley]

@@Terence-zb5cb 😂🤣😂🤣

[@Terence-zb5cb]

@@finneyomalley typical coward