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Even though I love cars… in 2024 it’s way better without them Racing about in the centre..

Our Teacher used to pop in at dinner time Cardinal Wiseman school

Enrichment has turned it into a dirty hole.

Outside of a few handsome buildings in the city centre, Birmingham is full of brutal, ugly vistas. The Birmingham band Godflesh released their debut album a year after this film, and I can see why they sounded like they did.

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

Who saw it? Wimpy

Birmingham when Birmingham was a nice place

It looks a bit rundown back then with all the concrete buildings but I am sure the people are lot better than what we see today in every city in the uk today. I visited Birmingham a lot in the late 1990s and the place looked like it had improved quite a lot. I found the people in Brum to be down to earth friendly like a lot of the West Midlands. Like all cities in the UK it has loads of money spent on cosmetically improving whilst they have torn the heart out of it.

4 years before I was born

Am I the only one or do you get a little disoriented when a major landmark is gone?

I used to go to that shopping centre with my parents growing up. I think it's ashame they demolish these places just to to open up another Lidl/Aldi, there's so many of these around yet more and more are getting built. I know it was old, but I think it would be better if the councils just let the empty shops for free at these type of places, get small retailers selling a variety of different things with discounted vat on the goods so it encourages people to shop in person rather then online. I think it would be better to have a variety of different shops like that rather then the same old Lidl/Aldi/Asda etc.

My mother used to work in the 'Standing as a cleaner, but it was the previous one with the veranda and the two 'paintings' inside, one of Charles I and one of the battle of Culloden. Many years later I lived close to the Culloden battlefield, how about that for full Circle. By the time I was old enough to legally get into a pub I avoided the 'Standing as it was a bit of a hole and went down to the Parson and Clerk. I suppose all things must change, we've just lost the petrol station in my village, turning into a Morrisons (might have a petrol pump) but looking at your footage of the shopping center before it was pulled down made me nostalgic. Brutalist architecture is fast disappearing across Britain and although I hated it at the time I've got a soft spot for it now; rose tinted glasses and dimming eyesight 👓 🥲

I have never been able to figure out how anyone can afford to tear down a massive structure, remove the debris and rebuild. What a cost? Amazing. Not being negative. I truly wish I understood how they can do it. Thanks for the video.

Anyone remember the little army surplice shops on Broad st?

Before cultural enrichment

You HAVE documented everything for them very nicely!

As pretty as any eastern bloc city…

The Floozie hadn’t gotten into the Jacuzzi in those days…before the Dinghies came..

Brum once had a heart and soul with an identity ....now it just a multi cultural mix with no self identity with loads of homeless souls and beggars hanging out around junctions ....people travelling from birmingham airport into the city must wonder which country the cov road is in 😢

its not kingstanding with out it sad to see it go so many good time there with my nan

Quite a project!!

Yes I did book holiday from clares

Beautiful

Preferred it, as it had more character and the people were better (less hostile).

Dont need a lidl

So much work before rebuild can begin. Amazing how many pieces of equipment and manpower it takes.

Remember the old Kingstanding as well Shame they demolished it

I was brought in Kingstanding in 50s and 60s

Prefect😂😂😂😂😂😂

I was born in 1964 , and one of those was our family car , similar colour, not 2 tone , we lived in a city with very steep streets, and Dad had to use routes that were the least steep possible, otherwise it would boil over . He regularly had to get the valves ground , it was definitely less than ideal .In 1969 ish he sold it and bought a 1966 Chrysler Valiant and that was our family car until 1980 , then he bought a newer Valiant. Getting the Valiant was like going from the Flintstones to the Jetsons , what a huge upgrade it was . But, I'd love to have that "Defect " now ,for sentimental reasons, but, it sure wouldn't be my daily driver. 🙂

Never go anymore. Soulless dump.

Two beautiful cars. One perfect Prefect. And the other is perfect too.

Here in colonies we say a perfect day out...guess Google failed.....oh well prefect it is..all the best

When will the new lidl open

I hate to ask such a stupid question but what are the wavy white lines on some of the streets in the traffic circle designating?

I've just been watching the ITV News here, ( see opposite ) of this 1987 snow storm, I honestly can't remember it, 1982---1963---1947--YES. BUT by 1987, I was living in North Somerset. so maybe we were lucky.

Bro couldnt have waited until 2020

What a difference a view makes!

I was diagnosed with Cancer in January 87. Spent months in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. They told me i had two weeks left to live and to put my affairs in order.... I was 24 years old. They offered me a new treatment which i accepted, no brainer really. I was 62 a few days ago. Watching these pictures brought it all back.

Thanks for posting this! I was born and grew up in Copthorne Road, and remember as a kid that shopping centre being built, and thinking how excitingly modern (even futuristic) it was! I bought my first vinyl albums in the record store there, booked a holiday at Clare's travel agents, and would get a Cornish pasty from the Bake 'n' Take, which then became the first Kentucky Fried Chicken place I ever knew! Subscribed and looking forward to watching the progress!

I've parked my little Austin A30 in there a few times many years ago now.

Machines to tear it down, machines to clean it up, machines to build something new…..amazing equipment.

Wishing you warm, sunny weather for camping!

We have a lidl in York, PA. More Aldi’s in our immediate area. Most of the items in these stores are more reasonably priced than our supermarkets.

Did you know our town was filmed in the old fruit shop and stairs was on the show my town as I am from kingstanding and proud of it

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 .

I saw bigfoot......

Just as long as the ghost doesn’t hurt the car, all will be well……. Keep those wheels wobbling.

It's how I remember Birmingham as a kid - I know my way around that video better than the place now even! IT shows you the savagery that was inflicted on the city by pot war urban planners, it would be amazing to see a similar video from the 30s.

To be clear I just talked to my British dad who passed in 71....yep son it's a ghost