Old pictures of Birmingham Vol1 Revisited

Collection of old photographs of different areas of the great City of Birmingham.
With 3 song soundtrack featuring Roy Wood & The Move, Queen and Johnny Hates Jazz.
Disclaimer - I do not own the copyright to any of these photographs and the music copyright belongs to Parlophone Records Ltd - Virgin Records Ltd and Universal International Music BV. Queen - These Are The Days Of Our Lives - sound recording also administered by UMG. Johnny Hates Jazz - Turn Back The Clock (Remastered) sound recording also administered by EMI
Enjoy a look back at Birmingham and feel free to leave a comment.
Thanks For watching.

[@ronholfly]

Wonderful times, gone forever. This so called modern age is a bloody madhouse.

[@MrMagsimus]

Awww just had to watch this again , never ceases to bring me to some small tears ....wow where did the time go ??👍🙏🏼

[@lyntonryan4766]

Yes Yes Yes , ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT pictures I come from Erdington born 1968 , I can see everything from my childhood , THANKS for reminding me of them times !

[@carolgriffin8950]

I lived in st mark's street my God we had some great memories of it I cried when we had to move because the houses were being knocked down there will never be times like them again 😢

[@Bassbarbie]

Anyone go to the Top Rank discos on a Saturday morning? We then used to head off to the Silver Blades. Happy Days! Thanks for sharing - lovely to see all these old pics.

[@jessbirmingham889]

Never went to the top rank disco's but definitely silver blades went there a lot in the 80s

[@olcotttheosophy]

Amazing, wonderful, knowledgeable, unforgettable

[@catkatzi3320]

Mesmerising ... old memories!

[@carolgriffin8950]

Thank you for your videos really enjoyed them thay wear the days ,I looking at the roads and payments thay wear so clean not like today. Thanks again

[@johnwarner4513]

Many tthanks earface, thats a lot of work👋

[@desireepotato9009]

Brings back lots of memories. Some happy, some sad. I was bought up in Kingstanding area of Birmingham and lived there until 1980. As a teenager I worked in the Rag Alley selling comics and books. The images on both volumes of pictures are incredible and certainly brings back memories. I live in the South East of England now and regularly visited Birmingham until my Mum passed away four years ago, Its very nostalgic to view Brum before my time and to imagine my parents living in the old photos. Thanks for posting these lovely pictures and the fitting music to match

[@MrMagsimus]

I feel the same way , it’s a fantastic collection of photos 👍

[@MrDaiseymay]

@@MrMagsimus It's a series of Brum, look outfor the other's.

[@MrDaiseymay]

Born in Brum, in the opening scene , New Oscott. and Kingstanding too etc etc, the family moved south when I was 12. Enjoying all the series of recorded great memories. One striking memory, was not ony the amazing number of pubs, ( 2 competing very large Brewer's M&B and Ansells) But the massive size of many of them, obviously hotels as well. My dad frequented many of them. After a pint or two, he would drive home, without the slightest hint of any effect on his driving, he was always a steady driver.

[@golden.lights.twinkle2329]

Born and grew up in Coventry but trips to Birmingham were always special. I shopped at Rackhams, M&S, BHS, C&A and Hudson's bookshop, went ice-skating at the Silver Blades and to concerts at Birmingham Town Hall, attended Aston Polytechnic and worked at Fort Dunlop. Not familiar with a lot of Birmingham suburbs because I mainly went to the city centre.

[@alaurrahman5206]

Thank you for sharing the lovely memories of brum

[@sarto7bellys]

Growing up in Brum , Perry Barr in the 60’s and 70’s to be exact, it bought back a lot of memories of places I went as as youngster, sadly all changed and not so much for the better. Don’t live too far away now, near Lichfield, but going back into the city centre I feel like an outcast, it doesn’t feel the same as it did when I was a kid, not as safe, is it because I’m a lot older......or because I’m so much wiser?

[@nickforbes-warren6602]

My parents still live in Solihull, and for me in the 1970s and 1980s Birmingham was a great city to go to as a child and teenager. Train spotting at New Street(when there was good stuff to see unlike the crap Pendolinos now), model shops, Rackhams and Lewis's to go Christmas shopping with my mum in December, and in the 1980s I went to gigs at Burberries, the Powerhouse and the Irish Centre and to many of the pubs! I live in South Wales now, have done since 2002. My wife didn't feel safe there(we got married in 1997) but to be fair the place started going downhill in the 1990s so she was right in the end when I look back.

[@yesthen2704]

1:22 we will never, ever get to see a picture like this ever again. It’s saddening

[@MrDaiseymay]

The past was another road, another place.

[@user-zw5uh5zi3h]

Worked in the bullring for 25 years look at it now 😢 music is right ❤

[@strat4ordgirl]

Lovely photos super music. This was the Brum Erdington Aston I lived and worked in. S.d progress! I loved the old Brum!

[@earface]

Thank You. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[@sylviabaxter265]

@@earfaceI would like to see photos of south Birmingham, more in the suburbs than the city

[@martinmitchell2486]

really good memories of those areas well done.

[@terencericketts8017]

Fabulous thank you for sharing 👍⚽️

[@margiedee6700]

Oh the good old days. when all of us where hear .when we where kids.and time still go's on no matter what. When you're young you have the world at your fingertips .We all are growing .that word (old)

[@gizza1958]

These 2 collections of photos of my hometown are amazing, the best I've seen, by a mile. An incredible and moving selection of songs to accompany them, too. Thank you so much.

[@earface]

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the videos.

[@SNAKEPIT359]

The old Beaufort cinema. Last film I saw there was The Omen. My old school Washwood Heath just down from it.

[@Bassbarbie]

I remember seeing The Good, The Bad and The Ugly there :)

[@spana123321]

I went to Washwood left in ‘85

[@chrisweeks6973]

Goodness, how things have changed! At 2:30, there is only one foreign-built vehicle - the VW Beetle; all the rest are UK-built. Triumph had obviously got good market-share in Erdington (at 3:15) with a near-new K-registered (1971) 2500 from Warwickshire, a Vitesse, Toledo and a Herald in the photo. The Mini van (at 5:39) is a long way off his patch; that's a London registration, whilst the Sunbeam Rapier (at 7:48) is very rare today, as is the Ford Consul Classic coming towards. The Birminghham-registered Herald Coupe (at 8:01) is even rarer. I remember the mess that was the construction of Spaghetti Junction, as I had to pass through it twice a day going from my Erdington home to work, near Digbeth. On the day the Junction opened, the TV camera crew - there to show how easy it was to navigate - got lost!

[@MrMagsimus]

If all the nice people on here commenting on their memories would perhaps like to all meet up after covid at some kind of meeting place perhaps have a drink and share our memories with these lovely photos ?? I think it would be great to listen first hand to their stories 👍❤️

[@Roatanlova68fmp71lliiiak]

Awesome, thanks

[@scrapyardsalesracingrivals7897]

Just great, loved looking at them, most before my time but i knew where they were

[@MrMagsimus]

Great video , loved it so much , I grew up during the 70s and went to Prince Albert school of the Witton road Aston then lived in Lozells and now in kingstanding, recognised most of the photos , they are priceless , thanks a million 🙏🏼❤️👍

[@davelanchester]

I went to Prince Albert primary school as well, the hed was miss Teige remember one teacher only Mr Greaval ,lived in Tower Road Aston then moved to Caversham Road kingstading, nice to see old photos,

[@MrMagsimus]

@@davelanchester lol I think I remember mr greaval , don’t recall the head mistress , was a guy called mr hinchcliff ..so glad this brings people together 👍👍

[@jkmcgregor7797]

I went to prince Albert left in 1979 .what was last picture of high street aston .is that a brook being culverted

[@marclaw4511]

Birmingham was so much nicer in the 70s.

[@MrDaiseymay]

Post war in Britain, was a time for catch-up. We were well behind the continental cities, in clearing up wartime rubble and renewing our cities. Trouble was, we did a bad job of it--mostly. That's why most cities are re-doing the job. Compared to pre-war planning , the 70's looked modern and clean, and most people were glad of it. Unfortunately, the materials were poor quality, and didn't last the test of time too well. The tower blocks were what most people regretted.

[@robtyman4281]

1940's bombs and 1960's town planners did for Birmingham. By the early 1970's the city centre had been played about with so much that it was unrecognisable from the pre- WW2 city centre. 1960's planners completely ruined it, and carried on doing this in the 70's resulting in two massive 'own goals' - the demolitions of both the original Snow Hill station, and the Victorian Central Library. A hefty slice of the city centre's character and heritage were lost in the process.

[@Behyelzebub]

@sarah jones Where are you from.

[@yesthen2704]

Agreed 😢

[@golden.lights.twinkle2329]

Even better in the 1960s.

[@spana123321]

My uncle Joey worked at the Beaufort in the seventies. Saw Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger there 👍👍👍

[@captaintorch983]

Absolutely brilliant, thank you so much. Great music as well. Wish I was there now in the 60's/70's.

[@keithbrown8263]

Memories Perry's Shop Union Rd we lived other corner opposite, went there a few times, great Video.

[@madcarew5168]

Born 1955 when "up town" with Mum in the early 60s it seemed all construction..i remember the Whitzy Doo!!

[@denniswatson8699]

I was born in the 1962but still remember growing up in worsley Street by car paints if I look over my gate I can see the river because my was in front of it and play ING the park by the pub Carson travel

[@winstonharris3724]

I remember high street Newtown canal's I fell in it in the sixties Had to be rescued

[@MrDaiseymay]

yeah--I wouldn't forget either.

[@colinp2238]

The Matador was our Saturday night meeting place to do the town back in the start of the 70's. Then maybe a coupe in the Tavern and up to Top Rank. The memories in these photos! Grew up in Starbank Road went to Bordesley Green Tech. Barrows Lane army cadets. The Swan disco on Sunday nights then to Digbeth bus station to get the special bus for squaddies and back to Bulford Camp for first parade on Monday.

[@MrDaiseymay]

WOW, SUCH ENERGY, WHEN WE WUZ YOUNG.

[@Mrsdusk1978]

God bless the end to a fight that can’t be beaten. In Birmingham ✌️🇬🇧

[@h.4rry_192]

I wonder what that fight might be?

[@sams9744]

Maybe nostalgic now but grim and depressing in reality to live... also shows how much open space and dirt roads there were, no paradise but hard life and harsh conditions. The streets were not paved with gold and money didn't grow on trees whichos what a lot of people still think even nowadays... OMG!

[@johnmscott4556]

I like this, very nice, and the move playing great stuff, no elo?

[@dragonofthewest8305]

This is sad

[@clairesmith314]

Any photos of Yardley Wood? Great video:)

[@madcarew5168]

Then things got brave& inclusive..............

[@megz_85]

just happened upon my father's birth certificate and he was born in Birmingham little Barr street in 1925

[@MrDaiseymay]

I'm still researching my Birmingham family , after 20 yrs. Just discovered my grt granddad inherited £103, 000 ( 2021 values) wonder what happened to it ? I'll carry on digging.

[@annekenna2768]

Do you have any pictures of heath street back to backs in winson green? Love the pictures of Birmingham, the rebuilding ruined it.

[@MrDaiseymay]

That bad eh? the rebuilding spoild the Back-to-backs ? ha ha.

[@annmitchell4663]

Any pics of old Saltley...Alum Rock rd ect.

[@gavinwilliams3684]

No pics of South Brum

[@anthonymurphy1762]

Has anyone got any photos of Taysfield Rd, Fourlands Rd,Cromwell Lane..from 60s 70s or 80s?...all B31

[@bellamybug]

I found the house at 5:43. It's number 371, George Road, Erdington, and it's been ruined, sadly.

[@twmmcw]

There are houses of the same style still on the road.binged.it/2lcuMVs

[@Random-bj3gf]

I live on george road too.

[@frogsinthegarden1008]

I was brought up in Erdington we lived in a roAd off the high street full of person SNPs l remember going to the carlton just the shortest walk back home back back home they were the best days of my life so sad the way it's gone it's not Erdington it's now the people who have invaded it s so very sad

[@marktaurus206]

Loads of racist locals in Birmingham areas are segregated and divided no integration at all no one cares for each other in Birmingham.

[@nickb5391]

No South Birmingham?

[@mollynew971]

Did anyone go too Great Barr junior/comprehensive schools in the early 70's

[@MrDaiseymay]

Early 1950's. yes. As I recall, the buildings were clad in wood, and the playground had a steep slope.

[@olcotttheosophy]

Is this Birmingham in the USA/ the UK?

[@MrDaiseymay]

UK Sir.

[@sams9744]

Seriously? Have you watched it at all? OMG! 😮😂😮

[@captaintorch983]

You must be having a laugh mate!

[@khanimran1238]

No pics of small heath my fans been here since 193o

[@SNAKEPIT359]

khan imran I grew up in Small Heath during the 6o's and 70's Charles road.

[@Mr.SLovesTheSacredHeartofJesus]

Nice video. God awful music.