Birmingham City Centre in 1987

[@midgecooper1772]

Thank you for this, it stirred up so many memories. Birmingham wasn't perfect back then but now it's a hostile, overcrowded mess.

[@Iktbrs]

You’re welcome 🌷

it's a third world country now.

[@GH3PC]

for real, the people that you see around birmingham sometimes make you feel unsafe.

[@cardinalnight3883]

Much worse back in the 1800s. Sloggers, pollution, slums everywhere. Now, yeah, it's a bit of shit hole in some places, but there are some good initiatives which are helping families.

[@topquark6919]

Thanks for posting. That brings back some lovely memories of 1987. I'd go back in a heartbeat!

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 😊

[@numberstation]

Thank you for a great video, lovely to see the streets I walked through as a young man. It seems like yesterday…if only I could go back!

[@Iktbrs]

You’re welcome 💐

[@angelacooper2661]

I was a seventeen year old YTS trainee at the time and remember it very well. The cream and blue buses (West Midland) are distinctive!

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🌺

[@orangebox100]

I totally agree, i was born in Birmingham and lived in alum rock and stechford, yes it wasn’t perfect but i was always proud of brum and real brummis who would do anything for you and give you the shirt off there backs, now it’s just a over crowded dump that’s lost its roots

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🌷

[@stevieb9490]

Super diversity

[@gabriellaj.o.6180]

We were more civilised then. At least there were shops. Now look at our high streets up and down the country. Worrying times. I prefer the Birmingham and UK of the 80's but then I'm middle age now and was young then. It is a pity we can't fast rewind back to then. I do like You Tube for showing footage like this. The documentary's are fab as well.

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏 in 1980 uk Birmingham 🇬🇧 was industrial city and taxing people businesses government don’t have any more stats own no runs factories 🏭 only run on taxes

[@Heaven-dy9lj]

I agree. There was more cohesion in the city, than now, that's for sure. I grew up in Brum in the 70's and 80's. I left there 20 yrs ago, as it was getting worse. I return every now and again to visit family and it just gets worse, it's unrecognisable from 10 yrs ago! Find there's more cohesion and sense of belonging in Europe now, than my home town! What a state of affairs.

[@Iktbrs]

@@Heaven-dy9lj thanks 🙏 that was very clean city no jobs I want for job interview at Land Rover 1990 10 jobs available apply 1500 people and before no skill demand works and now demand skills qualified work so hard get job thankful to chat with you 💐

[@buskingkarma2503]

Thanks for this,it's filled me with nostalgia,happy memories of a better time,in the Birmingham I grew up in! I left over 30 years ago,and wouldn't live there again,,unless time travel was possible! Lol ❤

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks for informing. I’m leaving in brume for 44 years now it’s very nice to hard you on channel thank

[@TheWhitehawker]

I left Birmingham over 30 years ago and have fond memories but do not wish to return today, perhaps if time travel was possible.

[@pixie77531]

notice how the streets look so clean but now there is literally litter on the floor everywhere you go

[@Iktbrs]

Yes 🙌 but public not care anymore back 1980 1995 will clean 🧼 if you remember that public toilets everywhere and know nothing thanks for your support local communities

[@markknight1011]

But still had potholes

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 😊

[@pickledegg1989]

It's a well known fact that litter didn't exist before 1994 🤦‍♂

[@qasimdin7438]

That could be down to the mass influx of immigrants

[@davem9208]

Thank you for this video, as it brings back memories. At around 3.45, just going onto the Bristol Rd, you can see the old ABC cinema, opposite which is a white tower block. That was Haddon Tower. My late grand parents (mothers side) lived in that block, flat 81 on the 13th floor, the latter of who passed away a year before this film was taken. The tower block is now long gone, being replaced by lower level apartments. I still drive past the twice a week to visit my mother in Northfield.

[@Iktbrs]

You’re welcome 💐

[@alyb731]

I feel quite sad watching it, think I preferred it then to what it is now. Everything looked cleaner then.

[@Iktbrs]

Yes before drive every ways in town not any more

[@tazmaniakhan1989]

Yes very much so i liked it then, town was town now you can't make head's or tales of the city centre (rubbish).

[@Iktbrs]

@@tazmaniakhan1989 thanks 🙏

[@pixie77531]

ikr

[@waynegoodman3345]

Seems that way too many takeaways now and people that don't give a damn and think it's up to someone else to clean up after them.

[@michaelmoffat-d1v]

Birmingham was a great place back then.. happy memories

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks for your great place Birmingham City memories

[@abc33944]

the video covered most of my route today,, very interesting changes ... moreover i came here for the old cars ..thanks!

[@Iktbrs]

You’re welcome 💐

[@thomastimjensen]

Thank you for sharing this enjoyable video! I was a resident student at Woodbrooke College at 1046 Bristol Road in Selly Oak 1986/1987 - it was a great time. Selly Oak and Bournville were wonderful places. Since then most of the college life in Selly Oak has closed down.

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 💐you’re welcome 🙏

[@mrglide7078]

Nope. There is more student activity in Selly Oak than ever before. Woodbrooke, Fircroft and the Christian colleges are all still there. The only main diff is that Bourneville college has moved down to Longbridge

[@Iktbrs]

@@mrglide7078 thanks 🙏

[@gabriellaj.o.6180]

Looks clean and civilised. No knife crime. Sad what we have lost as a society and countrry. Uk 2023 is pants.

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏 these days no way safe everywhere gun and knife best to look after yourself too be safe any where

[@gabriellaj.o.6180]

Agree with you.

[@Iktbrs]

@@gabriellaj.o.6180 thanks 🌷

[@Jonsson474]

I believe it was anything but safe and clean compared to now.

[@Iktbrs]

@@Jonsson474 thanks 🙏 it’s was more safe than

[@paulobrien4181]

Great city back then pubs everywhere you looked

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏

[@Iktbrs]

@@freepalestine6326 thanks 🙏 for your information

[@noelreilly8860]

PLEASE STOP. My beloved BRUM has gone. Proper tears

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 💐

[@Intergalactic2000]

I used go around here on my RALEIGH GRIFFTER. Seems like it was yesterday.

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks for watching

[@Dean-p6b]

When Birmingham felt like my home .

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏 yes it’s home 🏠 42 years I living in burm

[@adeh503]

It wasn't perfect by any stretch in the eighties but I'd swap it in a heartbeat from what it is today.

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏

[@bullyinspace]

Birmingham for me 1978/1998 was the best

[@Iktbrs]

Yes 👍 that’s you go anywhere in city centre now days can’t go anywhere accept walking 🚶‍♀️ thanks 🙏

[@deetee5863]

Great great video my friend

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks for the visit

[@drkintobor2597]

My favourite part of Birmingham is Title, Subtitle

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🌷

[@Kraggypandapops]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@dorinepowell6137]

Just unbelievable that this is a part of England.

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 💐

[@mrglide7078]

Why?

[@tutornick]

Thanks for posting. The ring roads haven't changed much. I worked on the city centre pedestrianisation scheme back in 91/92 and remember the buses in New Street. Much better nowadays of course. Would have been good to see Villa Park.

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏 buses and cars go anywhere in town before and no more cars only taxis and buses only but more safe for pedestrians

[@mrglide7078]

The ring roads have changed considerably. Observe Masshouse Circus at the beginning. All gone. Modernised. Traffic and elevated roads given way to pedestrians and better environment for all. Active crossings replacing dark menacing subways.

[@timvins]

Not a speed camera in sight yet everyone seems to getting around at a nice pace 🤔

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏

[@malachidrake7777]

Some good films in the pictures!!

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏

[@sooty307]

Birmingham was far from perfect but I’d gladly swop we have now for back then.

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏

[@mrglide7078]

No thanks. I wouldn't. You can keep your 1987 Brum

[@daveshongkongchinachannel]

Very nostalgic. I didn’t really appreciate those places back then as they already seemed run down and past their heyday but now I wish I could revisit that time. 1987 was the year I left England and although I have visited from time to time since, the last time I set foot on British soil was over 20 years ago.

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏

[@luishaywood970]

Great Footage… 👍🏽👍🏽 Lots of memories … ❤

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 💐

[@TheDronne]

Mum schooled for her MA at Edgbaston in 1989/1990 . Success!!

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 💐

[@delorangeade]

2:30 on the left Norfolk House where I had my first job working for the West Midlands Examinations Board a year after this was filmed.

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks for info 🙏

[@VickersV]

Thanks for this video, was living in smallheath in the eighties, 16 and working and drinking micky mouse,s great times, miss them days. Cheers 🍻

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏

[@sandpit72]

The Trees public house 7.47, demolished shortly after.

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏

[@sanchoodell6789]

It still looks very modern. The cars, the road markings, the clothes, the people, stuff like that.

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏

[@Jonsson474]

It’s not THAT old kid.

[@gazzam3172]

No need to blur it though when txt comes up?

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏 ok next time be ok 👍 no problem

[@markknight1011]

You got Selly Oak mixed up with Northfield.

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏 I not mix that because I cut some videos part that way title on wrong place sorry for that

[@matthewjdouglas6471]

There was a cinema in Birmingham near the Rotunda. My aunty took me and my sister to watch the care bear movie. I wasn't impressed but my sister loved it so it was cool. I used to love getting the bus into the city then a bus to my nans in nechells. Good times

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏 the cinema still there odeon and rotunda rest gone

[@AnthonyD-yy2in]

I had a female friend called Kim, who moved from Birmingham to live in North London around this time. I just wonder if she is still living in London...

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏 for sharing but London big city I was living in sw6 3years and 1year in north east south west come back to Birmingham 1990 work in chinas factory 1991 then I started working in Birmingham buses till 2008

[@davidbull7210]

Looked more like a real city before Bertie Bassett got planning permission.

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏

[@mrglide7078]

Bertie Bassett? Nope sorry, never heard of that developer. What did he build - something made of liquorice?

[@wesstarmedia]

Much better access via car in those days. What did padestrianisation achieve exactly?

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏 yes that’s days was very good time not coming back again

[@gabriellaj.o.6180]

London has now gone the same way.

[@Iktbrs]

@@gabriellaj.o.6180 thanks 🙏 when I was in London 1987-1990 back change allot today the same road work every ways London changed allot Fulham Chelsea else court Kensington all changed then before

[@mrglide7078]

ooh now let me help you there. Cleaner air. Safer streets. Not having to step off the narrow pavement down New St and into the path of a bus coming up behind you. Better environment all round really.

[@wesstarmedia]

@mrglide7078 crime is rife around the city centre. As regards people walking into busses, they should learn how to cross the road?

[@andystreet4022]

My late Father in Law Roy Selway was the Senior Buyer for the Construction Company "LAING" who were responsible for the rebuilding of New Street Station and erection of the Rotunda. He handed over the first £1million Sub Contract in the UK on that job. One of many great men who changed the face of the Midlands in the 60/70s. Built a huge section of the M1 Motorway too and also oversaw the building of Coventry Cathedral. He passed away in 2014 this very week. God bless you my old friend, I'm sure Carol your daughter, my late wife, is beside you watching over our great city. I miss you both.

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks for info sorry to hear that no longer here this world runs like this

[@danielalexander8588]

Was that your Bluebird?

[@Iktbrs]

Yes 👍 thank

[@jeffbutler3054]

More people living here that have no love or respect for our city

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 💐

[@LHRTW]

@@Iktbrsmost are east European Untermensh

[@Iktbrs]

@@LHRTW thanks 🙏

[@beebee7177]

Grew up in nechells. Happy memories.🙂

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏

[@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329]

I was born 10 years later in 1997

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏 then you don’t remember what before

[@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329]

@@Iktbrsmaybe mate but I do see the changes in transport as I was growing up here

[@Iktbrs]

@@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329 thanks 🙏 me too I seen that’s changing city centre and around

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏 I born 18 years before

[@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329]

@@Iktbrs18 years

[@jonnygti]

Wow, I was only 3 years old when this was filmed

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks you’re 3 year old I was 20 in 1987

[@angelacooper2661]

I was 17 and a YTS trainee at the time of this footage!

[@angelacooper2661]

​@@Iktbrs You're the same age as my brother Anthony, then. His 20th birthday fell on the day of The Great Storm (Michael Fish!)

[@Iktbrs]

Ok 👍 thanks 🙏

[@jonnygti]

@@angelacooper2661 was that the one when they used to stand on an island of the uk, on water, to read the weather, and he said “it’s looking fine and sunny tomorrow” then there was a bloody great storm ⛈️ 😂

[@matthewwilliams3827]

I’d love to see you redo this exact route and then do a side by side or something, I bet no looks worse.

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏 but can’t go into city by car only on Bristol road from long bridge I think bus route 47 to city centre a year ago watch that see different thank you 🌺

[@sohaibmuhammad3700]

That was along long time ago

[@Iktbrs]

that time was free time and 2001 I was busy driving buses til 2010

[@horseobrien395]

What are those buildings I remember them you don't see them now days ah I remember now they were called pubs

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏 that was Woolworths John Lewis and moneys more

[@kevkonk]

Nice video…

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏 for your comment on the video

[@richardlister3906]

I've just revisited Birmingham after 20 years...I lived there as a child in 1970s until 87. ...oh my god....I'm sorry to say it has gone downhill . New Street, Corporation Street and Bull Street are a total dump!!! Brindley place area in Ok .but Broad Street...what a shithole. I'm so happy I don't live there anymore. The only positive are there are nice bars and restaurants around Colmore Row and around St Paul's Sq.

[@Iktbrs]

Now everything changed then 1987 every year change much different now you left thanks for your comment 🙏

[@Busesfan99]

Jeremy Clarkson went into pebble mill in 1998 or something

[@Iktbrs]

Yes 👍 thanks 🙏

[@TheJms1977]

Great video but thats not selly oak its northfield 👍👍

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks for your information 🧑🏼‍🦯☑️

[@adecranmer2433]

Back when you wouldn't be charged to drive in your own city,

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏 this is easy money making scheme extra taxes on people living around Birmingham city and roads all everywhere pot holes car road tax working tax council tax food tax airport tax petroleum tax goods tax clothing tax property tax hiring tax city tax because government have no factories other than public sector sold out they income source make public to pay for all the need everywhere’s tax and taxes you go. 🚌🚌🚌

[@metatron007]

Jesus, that place is well out of focus or what..

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏

[@stephen3511]

A much nicer place back then 😢

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏

[@stephenroche5107]

Who was filming this ? Stevie Wonder ?

[@Iktbrs]

This was I recorded first time video camera operating1987 thanks

[@davidbull7210]

Stevie Wonder is a very good cameraman; he just can't watch it afterwards.

[@Iktbrs]

@davidbull7210 thanks 🙏 that’s was first time holding camera in hand 🖐️ not bad for 1st time

[@Iktbrs]

@davidbull7210 thanks 🙏

[@markhone5618]

The roads were in a better condition back then.

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks /yes you are right and clean every street parking ticket must day hardly give a ticket because police officers only have power to issue tickets and now days just 5 minte issue ticket doesn’t give you any chance

[@Moyna-nc8bt]

And now Birmingham is new

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏 yes much better but you take a car anywhere in town walk only

[@mikeyb.0121]

Looks exactly the same other than the cars 😂 too many oldies blinded by nostalgia in the comments

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏

[@ContentGramophone-tp9gw]

Most of the larger cities, an towns have lost there roots. Become overcrowded crime ridden hell holes

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏 and that’s true

[@ABCDEF-yf4yu]

Being followed by a Nissan Bluebird.

[@Iktbrs]

the reson that my mum dada visited uk in 1987 i made that video show arounds b,ham so alert change b,ham now sorry for delay

[@metatron007]

It's like the sweeny but without sound...

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks for your comment

[@camoli744]

There wasn't as many car washers back then was there😅

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 😊

[@Mister_H.]

I think someone in a Cortina is following you 😂

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏 really

[@Jonsson474]

Laugh!

[@Iktbrs]

@@Jonsson474 thanks 🤷

[@wulfhere83]

Cool video, I was 4 at the time, but its amazing how little has really changed over the years.

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 💐

[@sydbaz3]

No pot holes in the roads 😂

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏 in old days all roads very good any damage sorted in day not year

[@chrisbaker777]

Serious decline had already been underway for some years by then. Our industries were largely destroyed in the few years from 1979. Good employment, skills, a decent wage, housing: all in the process of destruction. And you voted for this!!

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏 I didn’t vote for this money making scheme road taxes council tax wages tax petrol tax business tax police tax the country living on taxes can’t good any more all manufacturing gone abroad every thing goes up but wages still some

[@madcarew5168]

Not perfect,but not an anonymous euro city either!!

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏 only for memory

[@sohaibmuhammad3700]

Do one in 2001 Birmingham City central

[@Iktbrs]

I have no video in that year 1987 made from VHS to digital video that way show difference and now 2021

[@klaze0121]

Ok yeah I'll go film it right now i just need to find my time machine won't be a minute

[@Iktbrs]

Lol ok can’t wait to watch it… 🙏😁

[@gazzam3172]

haha

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏

[@Kty27-65]

Definately wasn't perfect, far from it, still, it was home for me from 1985 to 1992 ....... bloody students !!!!!! 😂😂😂

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks that is first time to operate video camera I don’t know which angle to record

[@Kty27-65]

Sorry, i was talking about me, not you !!!!! 😅 i was the student in question....... your video was great 🤗 👍

[@A0121EP]

Everyone in the comments are honestly complete idiots when they’re saying things like “much better times” and “things were so much better back then”. This was 1987. During this time the crime rate, gun crime and every other statistic was way higher than it is right now. Everyone’s crying about Birmingham now but back in the 90s and 80s it was 10x worse. Stop crying and pretending to be a victim, if anything Birmingham has gotten better

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏

[@mrglide7078]

I completely agree. What a bunch of melts. I remember 87 very clearly. I worked in the city centre. It has changed beyond recognition. For the better

[@mudder5]

city centre was a dilapidated mess. Its not perfect now but its so much better than then. it was awful. Anyone who thinks differently is just being nostalgic.

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏 for your comment

[@minimaxi802]

Being followed by a Nissan Bluebird.

[@Iktbrs]

Thanks 🙏 that time I only afford that 🚗 car