Birmingham December 12th 1987

[@Satasha_knows]

I was 20 years old in 87.....this is the city of my youth.....loved the clubs, Boogies, Sam Wellers, Power House....etc

[@minkorrh]

I was on holiday from Canada staying with relatives for the year. I was 17 and in the pubs constantly lol. Went to the Birmingham Powerhouse a couple of times, the Barrel Organ, Frequented the Bulls Head in Kings Norton, worked at McDonbalds for a brief spell on the New Street station ramp, until I ran in front of a car and ended up in a cast. Good times. Liots of drinking and fighting, which was just typical England at the time. We left in 1975. I still remember my mom taking me on the bus to town (we lived in Rugeley) to meet my Nan, and we would go to the Bullring for groceries, and then to British Home Stores for lunch, which was usually Egg, Chips, and Beans lol. I must have been around 5 or 6 I guess. P.S. Take your country, culture and nation back before you don't recognize yourself in the mirror. It's almost to the point of no return. I'm almost loathe to say I was born there.

[@mikecraney6571]

This is when Birmingham had a heart ,it's long since gone over developed now ,Thank you so much for posting the Birmingham I loved

[@minkorrh]

Doesn't it just look like Pakistan now?

[@mikecraney6571]

@ yep

[@michaelobrien231]

I live in the USA now but was brought up in Birmingham in the 80s which is how it was on that video which brings back great memories , When back in the UK I often hire a car and drive around the city and it is no longer a friendly place it once was , and very dirty in some parts of the town , But still have a love for the city . Thanks for sharing the video .

[@labradormom3656]

I was 13 and remember all of this very well. My Nan used to often take me in to ‘town’, as we referred to it. We’d have sausage and chips in Littlewood’s cafe and at this time of year, we’d see Father Christmas in Lewis’s (not when I was 13! but when I was a bit younger). Can’t believe Broad Street. Brindleyplace Place was just a canal basin but you can see the development starting up here!! None of the waterside bars we have there now. Birmingham is far ‘posher’ this days 😂 Not so drab and grey. However, I’d give anything to go back and eat sausage and chips in Littlewood’s cafe with my Nan just one more time. Those were the days. Happy, happy, happy 😊

[@mark1966]

Great memories

[@fletcher2311]

My Nan also did the sausage and Chips in Littlewoods and Father Christmas in Lewis's thing. They obviously took the Brummie code of Nan honour very seriously.

[@sangriaproperties.5507]

I was 19 then and just about to meet my wife 3 months later,Always remembered Birmingham being very dark especially in winter,Worked all over the city in factories and later became a driver which i loved,Then moved to Spain in 2004,But Brum will always be home,

[@see6052]

Yep. Dark and very very drab. I remember all the horrible subways that stunk of wee. And all the old buildings were completely black cos no one had ever cleaned them.

[@tanyaeccles1797]

I still call it Rackams. I loved Birmingham back then .Full of characters down the rag market .....it was just fantastic

[@livingadventures5623]

Worked in Rackhams in 1991 😀

[@paulph12002]

I still call it Rackhams too. Sad to see it as it is now, just a shadow of it's former self

[@sameerazenib9678]

I was 23 back then. Loved the 80s. If only one could go back..

[@maneerhussain]

Sameera Zenib they were the days it make my heart sink thinking of the late 80s

[@seansands424]

I was 26 at the time if only i can go back at that age and time, my mum and dad was alive as well

[@idesireit31]

Best time of my life and i was only 9! Life and the world has changed so much since then. Take me back to 80's please !!

[@Steve20127]

I was 35 and I soon moved out!!

[@akumar7366]

Wow Sameera we are the same age, I was 23 in 1987 as well, I would say we grew up in a great time, I definitely think our families and freinds were alot closer and more kind, any hears to 1964 ♥

[@Rohail74]

It's a lesson to never take time for granted. You'll miss how things were when you look back

[@tommyfh1036]

I was 14 almost 15. Lived in caravan then. Loved Birmingham. Wish I could turn back time. World upside down now. Good vid

[@joetspare2632]

Strange seeing your city decades before you were born

[@abzhuofficial]

...or when you were barely born for that matter. It does creep me out from time to time.

[@dhiransodha599]

Yeah wow

[@zainab-mi9kr]

So true

[@bristolbullterrier.1434]

They were better days.

[@ElementsMMA]

The point toward the end where the car drives past new street station and the rotunda and there is just a vast space to the right which now forms part of the Selfridges building, but back then using the ring road you could just loop round back on yourself, utterly baffling.

[@Cinde74]

That was a thoroughly enjoyable trip down memory lane. Thank you so much, Sir. It's hard to believe that was almost 32 years ago.

[@ChrisJohnson-te3eg]

How I remember Birmingham. I was 9 when this was taken and it brings back memories of the excitement of going into town with my mom. She was born in Handsworth in the 40s. I moved to Lincolnshire many years ago, and now I get disorientated going out of New Street station, Everything has changed so much. To me it will always be as it was in this video.

[@mark1966]

Chris Johnson I’m glad I did this video, your post proves that to me, thank you

[@karlinguk]

You could get a doctors appointment for the same day back then... Now? 3 weeks

[@rossarmstrong6731]

That's because everyone was desperate to get out lol.

[@007lovediamonds6]

Very true

[@robtyman4281]

This is the same everywhere now.........even in London.

[@rossarmstrong6731]

@@robtyman4281 Gonna get worse from here on....

[@jc_80]

Rob Tyman it’s been bad for most people but since I moved to the outskirts of brum my practice has been brilliant, its partnered with another surgery, it’s has a daily walk in clinic which cuts off at half ten in the morning and If I want to book in advance I can go to the surgery I registered at, if it’s not suitable I have the option to book an afternoon appointment at the partner surgery, the doctors are very good and work at both surgeries

[@garywhiteman8837]

Thanks my man you brought a tear to my eye my memories growing up in Birmingham.

[@martinamoroney7164]

dis the same to me aha mad ennit the memories brought back somw i had lost too!

[@garywhiteman8837]

The best days of my life and the worst lol

[@navkang7606]

Great childhood memories. Ps, does any1 remember where the hamleys store was located, I just cant pinpoint location.

[@aidanlawrence1134]

nav kang Hamleys was on Upper Bull Street, opposite the tram stop (today).

[@navkang7606]

@@aidanlawrence1134 👍

[@lostman8990]

This is absolutely Brilliant ! I was 19 in 1987. Good memories.

[@jumbomills1272]

Lost Man very true. Unfortunately the genie is out of the bottle, never to return. It’s all the youngsters know. We lived more in the moment. No life plan as such. Simpler, happier times.

[@robtyman4281]

You're joking! Birmingham now is so much better and has something going for it, which it didn't 30 years ago. People now 'actually' go to visit Birmingham from other parts of the UK - no one did this back in the 80's, because the city was a byword for grey gloominess, and particular awful 1960's architecture. It also had a really bad public transport network back then. So you'd rather have the old Brutalist Central Library back then would you? .....or the subterranean 'hellhole' that was the previous New Street station? ...or no Symphony Hall? hmm. I bet you wouldn't.

[@darrenwilson99]

@@robtyman4281 Couldn't agree more. I was a teenager in the late 80s. Town was a bleak place then. It's so much more pleasant now.

[@lostman8990]

@@robtyman4281 Errrr ? Yes, I personally would. Back then the streets were kept alot cleaner and, there wasn't a homeless person on every other street begging for money, and sometimes intimidating you for change. The homeless cannot help being homeless I know, but it is depressing to see so many of them lying on pavements and in doorways. You make a very good point that Birmingham now has better facilities and attracts visitors, which in itself is better. I was commenting more about the way I feel about the world and life in general. 😞 My own viewpoint is that the 1980s were a better time. Each to their own.

[@seansands424]

@@lostman8990 We got Thatcher to blame for that

[@asherjgriffin]

This is brilliant for us Brummies. Thank you for sharing. I was 4 when this was recorded. So many memories

[@DannyBoy777777]

Me too. Arrived in '83.

[@angelacooper2661]

I would have been 17, so older than both of you!

[@brunster64]

Probably didn't seem that interesting at the time but looking back now it's a real gem. Saw 3 cars I'd owned, Cortina, Rover SD1, Ford Orion back in the day. Happy memories - was 22 in 1987

[@brunster64]

sal kola - Yes I had the Orion Injection Ghia- same engine as the XR3i They were great engines and cars

[@rickydoolous4669]

I had a Sierra in 87, very rare nowadays.

[@brunster64]

Ricky Doolous - I’d have loved a Sierra in 87 - had a modified 2.0 Cortina in 87 which I imagined to be a lot quicker than it was 🙈

[@rickydoolous4669]

@@brunster64 Mine was a lowly 1.6 L but i loved that car far better in my opinion the the Mondeo i had years later.

[@sirrealist5897]

Oh the memories are flooding back. Wonderful days. When Birmingham was still the capital of heavy metal music 🤘

[@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329]

Can you believe it’s been 36 years since this was filmed

[@mark1966]

Hard to believe I filmed that 36 years ago....

[@aidanbrampton7233]

I’m 15 now it’s so weird seeing my city when my parents were growing up for example seeing how similar and different the underpasses are

[@throwow1014]

aidan brampton me too, its also incredibly sad, the city used to be sooo cool from a lot the footage ive seen, but now.... its infamous for being one of the worst cities in the uk. “the detroit of england” ppl call it

[@alaurrahman5206]

Damn I miss those day the 80s and the 90s thanks for the memory

[@richardsmith8790]

I think we all do the 80's was brilliant

[@rolandslater5830]

Remember this like it was yesterday. In the days you could actually drive round and through the city centre.

[@emokiller907]

good old days

[@Rockthecasbah3535]

Without being Cut Up.

[@reetpateet8656]

Fantastic trip down memory lane. Thanks for this and for having the foresight to do it! Boy has it changed!

[@KieronWray]

thanks for this - so many memories "rackhams.. past virgin, the outdoor indoor market place i forget the name of", really brilliant!

[@TheWhitehawker]

I left Birmingham 5 years after this video was filmed and when I last returned for a funeral in 2018 I didn't recognise the place. Definitely gone down hill in recent years, doubt I will ever bother returning . I don't miss the place, only some good friends I had .

[@see6052]

Down hill? Eh?

[@orchidalicia7996]

This is amazing, so many memories...especially the old dept store Lewis's and C &A😍😊. Plus driving a car down New Street going to where Rackhams is..now its taken up by the Tram. Thank you for posting!👏👏

[@nationwidepenguin]

This was my route to work on the 51 bus and this was filmed during my second year working at Lewis's. It's funny - I seem to remember town as a glamorous, bright and futuristic place - this makes it look quite dark and the concrete collar is so much in evidence. It's busy though - so much has changed in a relatively short time. Great to see lots of places now gone forever.

[@TheIndulged1]

LSD was stronger back in the 80's, but hey now it resembles the middle East in the 70's!, very progressive...

[@littletraveller5428]

I remember Lewis’s. That little bit felt pretty premium. It kind of felt like a mini part of London. Rackhams, Lewis’s and hamleys.

[@JamesSmith-ip8gv]

Me being 14 now I sometimes think about what life looked like back then, with my own eyes, it’d be cool if I could just experience it for a day, I’d like to see what my local area in Birmingham looked like, my grandad telling me how big the Austin was, and what villa park looked like, I know I’m probably not missing out on much but I’d still like to see what my parents were doing and visit my Nan who isn’t alive today, I’d also go visit my Italian great grandmother who I never had the pleasure of meeting but they’d probably wonder who the hell I am. But ah well reality is often disappointing and time travel does not exist, but amazing too see how Birmingham is evolving, it’s never really seemed like a second city to me

[@roblaa3198]

god James you make me feel old buddy lol

[@darrenkearns3134]

I was born 3 weeks after you took this video. My mind is blown im now 31

[@evi6199]

I was born 8th January 1988, im now 31, completely mind blown by this video too!

[@pl_presents]

Brilliant video. Amazing to see how so much has changed, most notably the old Bull Ring, Masshouse Circus and Broad Street

[@joseph-be6me]

Birmingham was a great city.friendly people good to work in. Make a living easy. I hope the community’s get on.because we all lived in harmony then.

[@rossarmstrong6731]

Post-2003 after the new years incident, and after the police, the authorities, the charities and the communities got together to stamp out the violence, Birmingham was rated the safest city in the UK at one point. Then austerity was foisted upon us by that idiot Cameron, and that idiot Whitby pushed to fight that stupid equal pay court case... where BCC lost... and the city ended up with a crazy-ass £1bn legal bill. Couple that with less police on the streets and it started to get worse again.

[@ianmckenzie2680]

And now it’s shit

[@Ontheroad1100]

@@ianmckenzie2680 it's only safe because certain figures aren't published

@@Ontheroad1100 it's not safe at all, there's a reason I left lol

[@ragetype1303]

I'm a youth living in Birmingham and I got to say life here is really bad

[@seanmurray1734]

Newtown hasn’t changed..and the bump before the underpass at Lancaster circus was the highlight of the bus journey:)

[@ORIGINAL786dodi]

Thanks for sharing this, so many familiar buildings and big stores that don't exist anymore.

[@laneyspangle4474]

I was 20 years old and to see this brings back memories now I’m 51 it’s so strange to see the way it looked like back then but it’s good to see this video

[@Mastermayham]

Laney Spangle The good old days 90's things were different clubs pub fun days smoke upstairs in bus lol 👍🏿

[@laneyspangle4474]

bee tee wasn’t it just not like today

[@karlinguk]

There was only 2 parking wardens for the whole of Birmingham then.. Now? 2,452

[@petersavage9456]

yeh and just one copper to keep us all in check lol

[@karlinguk]

@@petersavage9456 - lol

[@Kowinaida]

Birmingham looked bigger back then... I'd completely forgotten about the horrific green roof over the entrance to Snow Hill. Thank you for sharing.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

Birmingham City Center hasn't changed in size just improved with the banning of cars in the City Center now.

[@ashleighcollins8207]

Mad watching this knowing you were born exactly 15 years later. It’s crazy how much can change in such a short time.

[@abdallahomer5463]

WOW wtf i was also born exactly 15 years later

[@esazayd1753]

So was I

[@paulockold7103]

Good to see how Birmingham was when I was growing up,good times

[@MrAug80]

Wow.. this is classic old footage!! A proper timepiece. I was only 7 years old at the time!! Thanks for posting this.

[@nks80]

Same age as me mate, I was born July 1980 & grew up in Highgate

[@founderofself]

And me I was 7 🖐

[@dominicsmall5290]

Born may 2nd 1980. Remember birmingham like this 😊

[@joannesealy2268]

Oh wow! Just my time. I was 17 at the time and what a blast from the past, so many gems now gone. Thank you

[@angelacooper2661]

Same age as me, then, Joanne - I was a fresh-faced YTS Trainee at the time and remember it very well!

[@antonyhowell6189]

Thanks for putting this on. 🍻

[@vociferousrich3316]

I was only 8 at the time of this video. I remember town like this. Catching the 26 off the Bromford upto town and seeing all the shops, the wonderful markets. It was awesome.

[@mggilleshope6828]

Thank you for this, 2 days after my birthday and I was 27 back then. My son was 9 and my daughter was 7. Now at 62 you long for a time machine that would take you back. This is the next best thing.

[@lorie1482]

So true

[@VICTOR-pf9eg]

I was 27 left Birmingham for good of no return still miss Birmingham the good old day's not now everything I remembered GONE came back to see my city I can't find Birmingham got lost wow

[@JasonJack32]

1:26 To the right is Newtown Shopping Centre and to the left is the Barton Arms and Elbow Room. My Dad (Kenny Jack) favourite club. I lived in Guildford Drive Newtown from ‘72 to ‘80 I remember this stretch of road from I was a toddler. I moved to London from Birmingham when I was 10 and have been here 40 years. This piece of footage brought a lump to my throat. Such good memories of this area when I was a kid. Good times x

[@chesayce47]

Makes me feel sad watching this I was 13 and now I feel old x

[@hellosirimlookingforcrackg776]

I was 11 months old at the time you made this and turned 1 nearly a month later, now im 32 with two kids and i might do the same to show them 1 day. birmingham looked so dull and drab compared to now but thank you for showing us this

[@danielalexander8588]

The people who made these videos are true heros.

[@69er775]

I was 18/19 years old that year. Brings back memories. Moved away from brum in 2000. Remember the clubs, steptoes, Romeo and Juliet’s, powerhouse, wobble crunch, Edward’s number 8. Lifetime ago. Great video. Time goes by so fast. One day your catching the 37 bus into town to go clubbing and the next your in your late 50’s watching antiques road show on a Sunday evening. If you are young and reading this, my advice is enjoy the simplicity of your youth. Don’t wish it away by wanting to be all grown up. Adulting isn’t easy.

[@Pilbo2gp]

What a fantastic trip down memory lane. The old Laskys where I bought my first home computer (an Oric-1). Then the C&As on the right of Corporation St where a few months earlier I would have bought my first suit ready for university interviews. And best of all, the Odeon on Holloway Circus where I saw Star Wars for the very first time 10 years earlier. Seeing this video brought it all back as if it was yesterday, not 32 years ago.........now I feel really old! Thank you so much for this

[@rachelcarr1669]

I saw Star Wars at the Odeon in 1977 - we may have been there at the same time 😉😁

[@markymark2819]

This is great - remembered most of it, I don't recognise Birmingham anymore. I lived in great Barr 1978 (birth) to 2011 and on the odd trip in now its an alien place to me! Most of the stuff featured in your vid was still around when I started driving mid nineties, really enjoyable thank you!

[@mark1966]

Hey, glad you like, it seemed like a mad idea at the time to do the filming, but Im glad I made the effort now for sure !

[@Ex3Para]

Wow!!! I was 14 years old when this was filmed. To remind myself of what it used to be like has opened so many memories for me. A fantastic reminder of the things and places I used to visit when I was that age. I still visit nw, and I truly wish it was as calm as it used to be then. Now it’s just a mass of people who all seem to be rushing to get somewhere, with nothing there to be positive about.

[@welshlad6427]

I was 19 when this was filmed. Great video. Birmingham has changed a lot since this.

[@wizardoflife387]

The days when rap music was at its best and also the classic films like Rambo predetor back to the future were so good to WATCH

[@Panda1874Retroray]

Nothing like a day out in breakers alley with a piece of lino and a ghetto blaster on full whack blarring Roxanne Roxanne by utfo...

[@nobaccos]

ohh and lets not forget them green bus stops.

[@horuslupercal2385]

The Odeon cinema...... Spaceballs was playing in this video, can't get much better than that 😁

[@snakepliskin6035]

Thankyou for having the foresight to do this. Great to watch but also with a tinge of sadness at how quickly time passes. Remember going to Hamleys on a saturday...what a toy shop! Enjoyed watching it, thankyou.

[@richardlister3906]

Hamleys in Birmingham??? Dont think so?

[@snakepliskin6035]

@@richardlister3906 You don't need to think, im telling you there was a Hamley's in Birmingham for years, just ask anyone from Birmingham.

[@paulireland4258]

32 years on and virtually unregognisable.😢 Better times 4sure.

[@Nozthedon1]

I was born in this year.So much has changed since then.It’s nice to watch videos like this,it gives the feeling of being transported through time and what it was like then.Keep making these video.Good job

[@firstladygenevieve3688]

I remember we used to call the rotund the "coka cola" building as that what was advertised at the top!

[@Panda1874Retroray]

And the FUJI FILM lights next to it on the bridge

[@Panda1874Retroray]

Anybody remember the FUJI FILM lights on the bridge over near to the rotunda...shit!! I remember them putting a King Kong on the roof.. 80s brum was awesome... Don Christy records and Summit records.. Not forgetting the original Tempest shop

[@simonforrest2522]

Facts

[@firstladygenevieve3688]

@@simonforrest2522 yep☺

[@zoeb3634]

Yeah, I forgot that. It threw me when it started to be called by it's proper name🤦🏾‍♀️

[@mshossain1439]

1987 I was 11 years old. First year at high school oh the memories.

[@zafmal2935]

So glad that the lower part of New Street was made car-free. The car journey on that stretch in this video is fairly smooth, but most of the time it was overloaded with traffic and blocked all the way back around the bend. It is a very compact stretch of road with tall buildings on both side. With cars being less environmentally friendly back then , and the emissions being much "dirty", it was not very pleasant walking there on a hot day, and not great for the drivers sitting in their cars either.

[@jeangrice5462]

Oh my goodness, what an amazing piece of film. I remember this version of Birmingham so well. I was working in Birmingham then and remember shopping in the city centre that same December. Hard to believe it's so long ago, it only seems like yesterday.

[@brummiespike]

This isn't Birmingham there are no road closures, traffic cones or temporary traffic lights!!

[@louiseroberts4798]

Wow! Great to see how Broad Street has been developed, looks so much better now. I grew up in Wolves but started working in Birmingham when I was 19 and now 40 so know it well.

[@SovereignR3387]

Crazy, I was only 4 days old when this was recorded! Looked so much nicer than it does now. Gone down the pan big time.

[@sarahwilliams4675]

This video just popped up out of nowhere. Thanks so much l was 23 and was working in John Lewis, so weird to see those old routes where you can't drive now!

[@ericdunn555]

You mean "Lewis's", I think. Never been a John Lewis in Bham as far as I remember.

[@roderickcozens5371]

It was a proper good city in the 80’s. You felt safe. Not anymore. I always feel on edge on the rare occasions I visit now. Thankfully moved away now. It’s a dump

[@see6052]

Sorry.... we're you ever actually in brum or are you just yet another edl bot?

[@see6052]

I moved to the city centre. It used to be great if you liked dark dangerous scary subways and underpasses that stunk of wee wee with no where to go after dark except a few really low grade low quality "fun pubs". ... a wimpy, maccy D's, and if you had a date you really wanted to impress? Pizza hut. I actually do live in the city now. It's a truly amazing and fun place. And actually, feels a lot safer

[@ColonelBandit]

The industrial and urban landscape of Birmingham i remember from my early working career in the Midlands - thank you

[@Joanne-ub1uy]

You went past my old stomping ground which was Newtown, which is now a shithole like many of parts of Birmingham, and it was The day when Villa battered blues on and off The pitch

[@jonathanwalker8730]

Absolutely loved this; I was 17 when it was filmed. Many thanks.

[@HOPPOVERSION1]

Amazing, brings a tear to my eyes, I miss the old days

[@roberthillcoxacousticguita3580]

Just the best! so great to see this, brings back so many good memories of Town as it was in the 80s, so many changes now and seems to fast paced and too much like London. I was 22 back then. What a great video, thanks so much for putting this up.

[@jayb8298]

I was 16..loved our city centre...just seeing it is quite upsetting...Birmingham has been destroyed bit by bit by you know what....would love to go back to this time...❤

[@pjg_77]

I was 10yrs old when this was taken & remember the city like it was yesterday !! Bought back some good memories this as. Thanks for uploading

[@mrrcassidy]

8:15 - The Dome! I was working in Jessops on Smallbrook Queensway (next door to the naughty knicker shop) when this photographer drove past.

[@brendanpmaclean]

I’m guessing you might have know Liz (I think). Went to school with her. Last I saw her, she was living in Moseley.

[@mrrcassidy]

@@brendanpmaclean There was a Sarah and another young lady who went on to work at Colab - but I can't recall a Liz. Could be just after my time.

[@deepakubhoo7406]

jessops was around back in them days?

[@brendanpmaclean]

Deepak Ubhoo still is chap. Down the side of Rackhams/House of Frazer. Cherry st? It nearly went bust but that Peter geezer off Dragons Den had something to do with its recovery.

[@deepakubhoo7406]

@@brendanpmaclean yeah i know i used to work there lol

[@GaryPrice-c2i]

Great old days miss them ❤

[@QuadTubeChannel]

Anyone remember traveling on those old rickety train carriages through the tunnel on the approach to New Street Station? Sometimes the carriage lights would temporarily go out and it was literally PITCH black. Very eerie.

[@sabrinajoyce1861]

My first visit to Birmingham from Ireland was in 1988...so just as I remember it x

[@danadana3094]

wasnt born in birmibgham but seriously anyone remembers paradiso the undergroud center in city center n the water fall? now everything change birmingham town center looks like newyork.. beautiful!! really impressive...??? Memories....

[@alexanderjames6328]

Thank you for posting this gem. This is shot much better than any mobile phone could do nowadays... there is so much more going on in the video - which I find really interesting.

[@mysoliloquy7704]

Cool, I grew up in Lichfield, but would go to Birmingham fairly regularly to visit my Grandmas and aunties. Proper trip in a time machine watching this.

[@adonailamb6627]

No young Asian boys in high powered cars, calmer traffic, no homeless at the lights, no eastern Europeans washing your windscreen without asking. I long for this Birmingham to return. Didn't know how good they had it back then.

[@flyinghero5283]

this is brilliant. I was 17 at the time and worked and drove every day along those roads. My dad brought a brand new Cott Sigma from the dealer on broad street. Its amazing how quiet the roads are as well

[@biggur5]

I was 17 back then and used to go into town very often. Couple of years later started Aston University and remember a lot building work going on in the early 90's Fast forward to today and it's unrecognisable! Virtually all major roads like new st, corporation st used to have cars zooming up and down and I was on the metro the other day trying to picture what b'ham looked like before. Today I see this video. KZbin read my mind!!!! Brilliant video

[@lawfulrebellion8710]

O my god this brings back so many memories.......I was 13 ......things wer so good back then bham was beautiful....all u see now it one way systems busroutes no entries and enforcement officers........

[@whitacrebespoke]

I grew up in brum and remember a lot of it being like this I was a child when this was shot so it’s bang on the era I remember. I went back recently after about 20-25 years and didn’t a lot

[@LittleKitty22]

Birmingham has changed to such an extend it's almost unrecognizable. It's a rathole now!

[@ALECCOUK]

My Heart beat increased with Joy. Oh wow spent so much time between my ages of 14 to almost 40. Have not been there in over a decade. Thank you for sharing

[@psawz7187]

Crazy how much things have changed

[@delorangeade]

I'd just left B'Ham Poly in 1987 so this was my route into town, and the city as I knew it. It had bookshops and record shops, I used to have to visit the central library if I wanted to find out something, and my entire wardrobe came from C & A. I rarely have a reason to go there now, and I feel lost when I do.

[@MrMagsimus]

Wow that was amazing thanks for posting it brought back memories and a few tears almost ..wow where has all the time gone , married now with grown up kids , back then did that whole cruise in a good old Capri 2.0s then had a donner kebab from five ways gulbergs take away 👌❤️👍🇬🇧🇵🇰

[@Ceallaigh16]

This the Birmingham I used to drive around and it was a pleasure. Today they have knocked so much down, changed road layouts and thrown up soulless buildings, you hardly know where you are. Also the roads are constructed so that you are always stopped at lights instead of free flowing islands and of course the dreaded bus lane cameras and clean air zone. Ruined.

[@wobaguk]

Couldnt place the start of the film for some reason until I realised it was pre-One Stop Shopping centre.

[@PeterUn-h1i]

This is really good, it's nearly impossible to realise the changes. Thank you for sharing x

[@karlinguk]

Back then most kids used their spare time having fun, playing out; football, cricket, ice skating, going park...youth clubs, making a den etc Now? Addicted to mobile phones

[@mfuhhh6567]

Karl BHX okay karl

[@muppet1011]

This takes me back. I was working in Moseley in 1987 in Lukers bakery.

[@rebeccamatthews4915]

That was brilliant, the Birmingham I remember as a teenager. Thanks for posting ☺️

[@rw6391]

Take me back, I was 12 it was lovely, It's changed much. Not for the better

[@chriso8485]

It's 10 times the city now. Amazing to think you could just drive around the city centre like that

[@HQA0]

you still can

[@chriso8485]

@@HQA0 nope

[@adriankatsikides3390]

Cannot tell you all how much I enjoyed a simple video like this, if you had said in '87 that I would be enjoying this in '19 I would have that that was bonkers... but here I am reminiscing .I was hoping to see myself bombing around in my '71 Marina coupe but no, I still have the car though. We are near Lands' End now. Had Bingley Hall gone by then ? Though the Science museum was my city hotspot, dear old place!

[@hajrabibi6292]

Wow 😮 I was 9 in 1987 and was living in Lancashire were I was born moved to Birmingham in 1990. Wow amazing times. I want those days back again.

[@muhammadalieesaa3379]

It's a shame they changed the Bull Ring.

[@happygolucky1947]

If only Hajra we need that Time Machine 😬

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

@@muhammadalieesaa3379 The Bull Ring we have now is the 3 version since the 1940's, the one demolished after war damage was replaced by the Bull Ring Shopping Centre opened by Prince Phillip in I believe 1963 and was the most up to date shopping Centre in Europe at the time modelled on Shopping Malls in the USA, it became dated and shabby in the 1980's so like its predecessor was demolished and replaced with the new Bullring Shopping Mall which combined with the Grand Central Shopping Mall is the largest combined shopping mall under one roof in the UK.

[@Escapetheratrace-ji6rx]

6 years old and loved trips to Birmingham with my mom. Seeing the old Wimpey restaurant where I loved to pop for a burger too...amazing time and memories. I hate what Birmingham has become now