Birmingham Nostalgic Pics Pt2

[@ladywoodboy]

Thank you for allowing me to look back to the Brum I was proud of !

[@TheBeeseven]

The most striking thing in these old videos is how clean everywhere looks. There was a sense of pride in our neighbourhoods that just doesn't exist anymore in large swathes of the city.

[@arthedainedain9846]

Demographic change and demoralisation

[@sextoncardew903]

I have never been to Birmingham, but my Grand-Parents came from there. As a result I have a great attachment to Birmingham.

[@kenday4812]

Great Photo's of the Past, Thanks for sharing them all.

[@strat4ordgirl]

This was the birmingham I grew up in, it's wonderful to see it again. Love the video love the music thank you for sharing

[@lindajennings5622]

this is the brum I remember, when I grew up in sparkhill in 50s 60s everywhere was clean I went back couple of yrs ago couldn't believe what I seen thought I was in Asia very sad

[@andrewhall2096]

@Samir Ahmed stop taking our land

[@andrewhall2096]

@sarah jones they are mixed race ffs

[@Jungleland33]

Exactly what people in India thought when you shower thought it was yours for the taking. Suck it up now.

[@trondog8503]

The destruction of Brum by 60's planners was criminal, the heart , atmosphere and soul of this once amazing city, gone for ever.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

Do you live in Birmingham my friend and I presume you were not around in the Sixties when these so called lovely buildings you so like were derelict dirty slums and sorry the City did not have atmosphere or soul then, it was just run down and dirty, as a kid living in Birmingham then it felt dirty, but now Birmingham has reinvented it self with a modern City Centre with tall buildings a new tram system and green areas in the City with modern Shopping Malls, yes Birmingham now has Character, Soul and fresh feeling about, take from a resident Brummie, I'd rather have Brum as it is now rather than as it was then, I am now proud to be a Brummie, but in the Sixties you felt ashamed at being a Brummie them, Sorry I disagree with you.

[@trondog8503]

@@peterwilliamallen1063 With respect, you’re missing my point, of course uninhabitable slums had to be replaced , I’m fully aware of the appalling conditions many people had to endure. I was talking about Birmingham’s historical heart being needlessly bulldozed, perfectly sound early Georgian, Victorian high streets flattened, it is my opinion that these were criminal acts as in my own home city which was once home to the last Cathedral lych gate in the entire country, again fell victim to 60’s planners, I just happen to believe connective history is important and that many planning decisions made during the 60’s and 70’s were a huge mistake.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

@@trondog8503 Well unlike your self I actually live in Birmingham, and I can assure you the historical heart has not been ripped out of the City centre of Birmingham, the area of the City Center going from Corporation Street / New Street Across to Great Charles Street and onwards to the Jewellery Quarter is made up of Georgian Buildings that have been renovated, Colmore Row being one of the best examples, the only parts of Birmingham City Centre that have been modernised are around the Bullring Centre, New Street Station/ Snow Hill Station, Moor Street with the new HS2 Railway Terminus, Smallbrooke Queens Way, Millennium Point and around where the ICC is, the rest of the City Centre has been upgraded keeping and enhancing the old buildings, the Suburbs of the City shown in old photo's have been torn down because they were slums of the Victorian era built cheaply and could not be modernised, in their place in the 1970's Birmingham City Council built new Housing Estates and muilty story blocks of flats and overspill estates in Chelmsley Wood, Telford, Tamworth and Daventry where people who lived in these slums could move strait into or wait a little longer for a new Council House in Birmingham, in doing this instead of Birmingham being full of bomb sites and run down housing, it became a City full of modern housing and green open spaces, other properties were modernised, even losing Citizens to these out of City over spill Estates, Birmingham still has over 1.5 million Citizens making it the Second Largest City in the UK, so just by looking at a video of the Historical past of a City and you have not lived here through the decades like myself or visited and travelled around Birmingham you can not comment about it, like I would not comment about where ever you lived just by looking at a 3 minute video, So basically the Historical Heart of Brum has not been needlessly bulldozed, the Original Bullring was bulldozed in the late 1950's due to excessive bomb damage during the second world war and was not fit for purpose and was replaced by the 1963 Bullring shopping centre which at the time was the most modern shopping centre in Europe, but with competion from newly built shopping centres like Merry Hill in Brierly Hill near Dudley 15 miles away and the Arndale Shopping Centre in Manchester, plus its aging look, Birmingham City Council decide it was time to rebuild it as it is now along with replacing the Palisades Shopping Centre on top of New Street Station with the Grand Central Shopping Mall, the two joined together by a footbridge with shops on it into one of the biggest undercover shopping centre in the UK , so no I am not missing your point, it is you and the others who have not done any checks into what you have said before commenting on this old historical video or visited Birmingham before running it down. One day come and look at Birmingham and you will be surprised how modern and green the City is plus how much History it has in old Georgian / Victorian Buildings and earlier still in evidence all over the city centre.

[@yesthen2704]

I disagree, 60s - 2001 brum was better than modern brum

[@yesthen2704]

@@peterwilliamallen1063 what do u think about the demographic change is Birmingham

[@singakoreantv7582]

Let's check attendance. 👍👍👍 I watching your videos.🤩🤩🤩 Have a great day

[@alanbartlett9523]

Happy days, takes me back 60 years.

[@MrOldbrummie1]

@24488GUARDSMAN nice to see somebody else feels like me.It actually makes me cry.yes cry to see whats happened.A saying comes to mind "THEY came,THEY saw and THEY conquered" I am 67 and remember BRUM in the early 60s.

[@paulbroderick8438]

Yep, WW1 and 2 all for nothing! Churchill and 'his' stupid' empire, all for nothing!

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

@@paulbroderick8438 What's Churchill Got to do with Birmingham, WW1 had no effect on the City as there were no German Bombers, and only WW2 had an impact on Brum, thankfully destroying a load of slums allowing Brum to reinvent itself.

[@REA5ON12]

​@@peterwilliamallen1063what he means is British government who invited people from nations it colonised (rebranded as the commonwealth) to rebuild the economy and pay back in taxes for the post war reconstruction efforts of the 60s. That's akin to his and similar kin folk. Labelled as invasion and take over. British government made alot of nations (independent) and then created the immigration act to stem majority who where classed as British citizens. Eg India & Jamaica. Easy to blame those originally invited over by the British gov than go at the British government. policies. Reap what you sow springs to mind. For folk like him.

[@ronholfly]

Thanks for the video, you have got some great pictures of the Brum I used to know, sadly it has gone forever.

[@ronholfly]

@@buzz5695 Yes, all because of immigration.

[@MrDaiseymay]

I'm Birmingham born, (1941), The family left for the West Country when I was 13. But with relations still living there, we visited Brum often, and i noted the changes over the years. BUT---Virtually ALL large British Cities suffered from the same treatment. Post War planning was hurried and on the cheap. None could be called picturesque or Award winning. The main causes were obvious, the severe bombing of WW2, which created the second most important cause--Britain was Bankrupt. Tens of thousands of homes were destroyed, so replacements were urgently needed. I recall families living in former miltary Nissan Huts on abandoned sites, or in delapidated Railway Carriages, and Barges, Add the shortage of building materials, and it added up to a botched job, and with thousands of people living in the sky. Over the decades it has slowly been replaced---for the better, i'd say.

[@johnmontgomery6030]

The days when cycling was normal with no problems. And healthier eating. We're now paying the price for progress

[@james.s.7449]

You cant beat the old days, Me & my brother lived at 119 ST' Martins flats in Highgate, I lived there for 12years. They knocked them down about 1969, Some of my friends the Mc Donalds Family & Friends & going to the disco & Racing on he back of their mods Scooters, The memories, I must drive up there some time just to see how bad it is & how much it has changed !! when this Virus goes, SO KEEP WELL EVERY BODY !!

[@rw6391]

Everywhere looks clean,the 50s and 60s were the time I would have loved to have been around.

[@allanbuttery5297]

Everything in Birmingham today is covered in Graffiti.In the 1970`S you started to see slogans usually unfinished with some gloss paint left over from a decorating job or on wooden gates with beware of the dog with them realising they will run out room by the time they get half way through.Do you notice how wide the pavements are in these photographs?Councils and there leaders always talk about Heritage and Horticulture but fail to recognise the past and what made their City and County.

[@alanbartlett9523]

When the world was a nicer place.

[@lillianflorence6056]

Yes

[@zx_7925]

How peaceful everything looked wish i can turn the clock back

[@nevillethomas1525]

Love the sound track

[@nevillethomas1525]

Love the old brummie photos

[@cchplays8182]

Sound track is Genie with the light brown lamp then Ghost riders in the sky

[@mebeasensei]

So many great cities destroyed or partly destroyed by the modernist madness of the 50s and 60s. 0:44 case in point. Not a spec of shade. No shelter. No where to congregate in shade and shelter. No trees. What hell. And yet this would have made a nice looking model with clean lines that the counsellors would endorse in their efforts to 'modernise'

[@iseegoodandbad6758]

Fucking men love destroying nature!!

[@ericsandford58]

so nice to see pictures of south Birmingham most of these videos seem to focus on Aston and that side of the city loved the pics of Moor Green and Queensbridge Road went to Moor Green j & i then on to Queensbridge also worked at Highbury Hall now living in KIngs Norton

[@rosemarylawrence4575]

Was born in sparkhill Birmingham Pity it’s no longer even driving past 🥲

[@jadasmith1977]

Birmingham is full of racism and segregation and segregated areas nothing changes.

[@numberstation]

@@buzz5695 You think there’s no working class in Cornwall? Then you’ve never seen Cornwall!

[@AJ-qn6gd]

No graffiti, no litter, no hoodies ! Imagine the outcry today if people on a limited budget were “forced” to buy horse meat !

[@eddierodden]

ah yes the good old days, then came the globalisation fantasy.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

So were you around in the shitty Good old Days of Slum dwellings then.

[@colinp2238]

I think that some of those photos dated 1952 should be 62 as the Cresta was not in production until 1954 and the Anglia 105E was 1959.

[@bonkeydollocks1879]

Great stuff

[@kevkonk]

excellent

[@johnboyle3297]

Remember that saying “you’ve a face as long as Livery Street" ?

[@jeffhgv]

Britain must have the worst planners and architects in Europe.

[@shagyanangargamel4823]

Watching on VE Day. Soooo sad what happened

[@The24111951]

bham is not now the place it was when i was growing up in 50s and 60s thats why i left

[@_B.M_]

Nowhere is what it was. Times change. Get over it.

[@brainsmith3931]

Birmingham has always been a rough dump and the state of the brummies today my god rude and bigoted lot.

[@melgrant7404]

@@_B.M_ not just times change but more of an invasion of certain people that make the place unrecognisable.

[@andrewtaylor5984]

Birmingham would have had its Ring Road years before it was actually built. It was planned before World War 2. Construction finally began in the Spring of 1957, and took fourteen years to complete.

[@iseegoodandbad6758]

Ugggh I want to be born in 1923!!!

[@falkerhard]

@vaj99 true but I never understood why one street had to have 20 clothes shops and why Christmas celebrations became winterval. Lame!

[@Domdeone1]

Still if our glorious gov didnt go to war on Germany twice we would still be a an intact peoples without losing IM of our next generation in WWI.. Cultural Marxism since end of WWII.. what they did to my Brum happened from Moscow all the way to East Berlin...

[@numberstation]

You’d rather we sat back and let the world be conquered by a fascist dictatorship that murdered those who didn’t agree with it? That murdered people from what it regarded as “inferior” races? That murdered the physically and mentally disabled? That murdered homosexuals? That carried out perverse, agonising, pointless medical “experiments” on men, women and children? That aimed to carry on murdering until it achieved its fantasy of a “racially pure” people using others as slaves? You really need to take a good look at yourself.

[@timvins]

Halcyon days, it’s a dump now 😢

[@HeartOfTheBeat]

it's not Winterval.. I think you'll find Brum has for some years now, hosted one of the largest Christmas Markets in Europe, nice to see people from all ethnicities enjoying a beer and Christian celebrations, I suggest you come and check out the Shropshire stall, some great ales and the last time I was there met some very proud Brummies of Chinese decent, Birmingham is a great mix of cultures, English, Irish, Caribbean, Asian and thankfully very few racists these days, they'vfe all f*cked off!

[@princebuster93]

HeartOfTheBeat Free speech is well and truly alive isn't it ? God made nations for a reason, and no, globalism is an evil agenda leading towards a one world Government. When people no longer consider what has happened to their country by treasonous communists but instead defend the destruction of our Nation, you know that person has been well and truly brainwashed. Many immigrants have only come to Britain to lay about sponging off Government hand outs, not working, not interested in assimulating, or learning our culture or language. The job of Government was not supposed to be socialist nanny state, where they pay you to sit on your ass, making everyone dependant on them...their job was supposed to be to protect the peoples rights and freedoms, which come from God, not man

[@rbeygarcia]

0:50 Fuckin’ ell. Horse Butcher’s?

[@conhawks]

music please, who is it? best

[@saifullahah7869]

✋💯👈

[@vaj99]

@falkerhar this is to do with creeping atheism in the governments.

[@princebuster93]

vaj99 yes it is, we are in serious trouble in Britain

[@annother3350]

The horse meat Butcher'!

[@numberstation]

Bostin!

[@falkerhard]

@TheCobraUK Then you will know how an ethnic minority feels

[@Behwyelzebub]

How do you feel

[@BeSafe20]

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[@Blabheinn]

music is absolutely ruining any enjoyment of video, gave up after 1 minute

[@weaverflooring4817]

Tt%