The Birmingham Thread

HMO · 31/03/13 - 20:21

As the title suggests, any of you Brummies who may have any interesting old images or videos of Birmingham. Would make for interesting viewing.

I believe this was the old Bullring: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llKqIC9VLtQ

Steveaustin316 · 31/03/13 - 21:03

Here's a video from Birmingham city centre in 1964.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFGLNvBMmBo

The old Bullring was an eyesore. Thankfully they knocked it down and the city centre is much improved since then.

HMO · 31/03/13 - 21:17

Some other images I have found.

That's Salford Bridge which is now part of the Spaghetti Junction.

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d101/Erebus555/DSC00336.jpg

Erdington (Birmingham) Race Course which no longer exists.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/djguinness/134415.jpg

A 50's traffic jam - somewhere in town

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Old%20birmingham/HighStreetDaleEnd1960.jpg

Dale End in 1960.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Old%20birmingham/AndertonStreetLadywood1968.jpg

Anderson Steet in Ladywood, 1968.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Old%20birmingham/StPaulsGPOTower1967.jpg

BT Tower in 68

stargazer61 · 31/03/13 - 21:23

Steveaustin316 wrote: »

Here's a video from Birmingham city centre in 1964.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFGLNvBMmBo

The old Bullring was an eyesore. Thankfully they knocked it down and the city centre is much improved since then.

Noooooooooooooooo. ! I loved the old Rag Market!:D

HMO · 31/03/13 - 21:29

Spaghetti Junction under construction: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham%209/BirminghamJan5th200864.jpg

Steveaustin316 · 31/03/13 - 21:40

Anyone remember what Brindley place looked like back in the 70's and 80's?

Turbovision · 31/03/13 - 21:46

Hassaan13 wrote: »

Some other images I have found.

That's Salford Bridge which is now part of the Spaghetti Junction.

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d101/Erebus555/DSC00336.jpg

Erdington (Birmingham) Race Course which no longer exists.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/djguinness/134415.jpg

A 50's traffic jam - somewhere in town

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Old%20birmingham/HighStreetDaleEnd1960.jpg

Dale End in 1960.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Old%20birmingham/AndertonStreetLadywood1968.jpg

Anderson Steet in Ladywood, 1968.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Old%20birmingham/StPaulsGPOTower1967.jpg

BT Tower in 68

That photo "A 50's traffic jam - somewhere in town" - shows Preedys Tobacconists which was on the High Street.

You can see it the same shop on the very first post on the forum thread:

http://www.birminghamforum.co.uk/index.php?PHPSESSID=63a176a7132c676da28f7bd8abbbbc05&topic=5446.0

Enjoy.

HMO · 31/03/13 - 21:51

I wonder what the Swan Centre looked like as i must have been about 3 or 4 when it closed in the early noughties.

housegirl · 31/03/13 - 22:45

I was born and bred in old birmingham 1952. This is where I was brought up

http://oldbirminghampictures.lefora.com/2009/09/19/lodge-road-hockley/

mazzy50 · 31/03/13 - 23:31

Steveaustin316 wrote: »

Anyone remember what Brindley place looked like back in the 70's and 80's?

I was at university in Brum from 1980, I can remember going to see The Jam at Bingley Hall which stood where the ICC is now.

housegirl · 31/03/13 - 23:59

mazzy50 wrote: »

I was at university in Brum from 1980, I can remember going to see The Jam at Bingley Hall which stood where the ICC is now.

A blast from the past for you;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVELj5gHmDg

http://www.beat-surrender.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/TransGlobal.jpg

[Deleted User] · 01/04/13 - 00:28

Hassaan13 wrote: »

As the title suggests, any of you Brummies who may have any interesting old images or videos of Birmingham. Would make for interesting viewing.

I believe this was the old Bullring: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llKqIC9VLtQ

No connection to Birmingham, but I loved watching the video anyway... my God, Steve Wright's prattle doesn't get any better over 30 years! :rolleyes:

Midland Bank, with the old yellow griffin. Good cars as well... there seem to be a lot of 70s cars on the road, when I was a kid - remember from mid 80s onwards - the more generic cars were starting to come in.

I like this concrete 'brutalist' architecture... it looks like the city of the future!

HMO · 01/04/13 - 00:37

:D:D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7X5zdWK6zc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkXEKHnn8TI - that's when they first opened the new terminal of the airport.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f63kIyo87o4 - construction works about 10 years ago.

chris1978 · 01/04/13 - 00:41

Love old pictures of Birmingham. My dad collects postcards of Birmingham. I would to go back in time and have a wander about. Always on the lookout for pictures of Kings Heath and Northfield where I grew up.

Burstfire · 01/04/13 - 00:49

shed loads of old videos and pictures on the skyscrapercity forums.

so instead of copying and pasting what they said.....heres a few threads....

Birmingham Snow Hill Line (old pics)
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1551402

Old Birmingham Pictures
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=468406

Birmingham in the 80s and 90s
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1528667

Birmingham bull ring and road system
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=904104

Old bull ring shops
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1523267

Old colour pics of brum's architecture
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=824850

Steveaustin316 wrote: »

Anyone remember what Brindley place looked like back in the 70's and 80's?

Theres pictures of old Brindley place on this one

Old Birmingham Pictures
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=468406&page=62

Theres more as well

Hogzilla · 01/04/13 - 01:06

I just went back as my son had an open day at the uni. He was born there, but we left ten years ago. The city was already being done up a decade since, but the Bull Ring and down by St Martin's is unrecognisable, now, even from ten years ago. Loved it. I hope to go back many times if he gets in (he has a lower offer from another uni, so he probably won't end up back in his home town!)

Museum just as we remembered it. And now everything pedestrianised - maybe twenty years after the cities in the North of England were, but still - it's lovely to walk down New St, now. Would be very interested to see old photos.

I have a slight link to Bham. We lived in a small row of houses that had a certain name - the smallest area in Bham. On the end house. Was our first home when we got married and we loved it a lot, an old Victorian terrace. Recently we broke down the biggest brick wall in my family tree and found my great grandad had grown up in Yorkshire with a stepfather. His stepdad, as a child (1850s)... lived in the end house of the same terrace where we lived for a decade. Same house! What are the odds of that in a city of a couple of million!

Chris, we lived in Kings Heath just before we left Bham. Just off the High St. Went back to look at all our old houses - two in KH. Felt quite nostalgic although we wre glad to get out of Bham at the time, now I have gone back, I realise how much we loved it, too.

Hogzilla · 01/04/13 - 01:10

Hassaan13 wrote: »

Some other images I have found.

That's Salford Bridge which is now part of the Spaghetti Junction.

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d101/Erebus555/DSC00336.jpg

Erdington (Birmingham) Race Course which no longer exists.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/djguinness/134415.jpg

A 50's traffic jam - somewhere in town

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Old%20birmingham/HighStreetDaleEnd1960.jpg

Dale End in 1960.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Old%20birmingham/AndertonStreetLadywood1968.jpg

Anderson Steet in Ladywood, 1968.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Old%20birmingham/StPaulsGPOTower1967.jpg

BT Tower in 68

I think the 50s traffic jam is up the top end of Corporation St?

mazzy50 · 01/04/13 - 01:12

housegirl wrote: »

A blast from the past for you;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVELj5gHmDg

http://www.beat-surrender.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/TransGlobal.jpg

Wow! Thank you

:D

Gosh - memories!

Bungitin · 01/04/13 - 01:15

IIRC Telly Savalas gave a ringing endorsement of Brummie.

stargazer61 · 01/04/13 - 01:15

mazzy50 wrote: »

I was at university in Brum from 1980, I can remember going to see The Jam at Bingley Hall which stood where the ICC is now.

and I went to see the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Walker Brothers, Roy Orbison at the Birmingham Odeon; the Rolling Stones at the Town Hall (that was just something else!), The Who,Spencer Davis, at the Gaumont. And many, many many more! A very good time to be a teenager!:D

Hogzilla · 01/04/13 - 01:16

Bungitin wrote: »

IIRC Telly Savalas gave a ringing endorsement of Brummie.

I think he was paid.:)

Bungitin · 01/04/13 - 01:20

Heres the link: Savalas does Birmingham.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxZ1xn2ml10

Muggsy · 01/04/13 - 01:22

stargazer61 wrote: »

and I went to see the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Walker Brothers, Roy Orbison at the Birmingham Odeon; the Rolling Stones at the Town Hall (that was just something else!), The Who,Spencer Davis, at the Gaumont. And many, many many more! A very good time to be a teenager!:D

I saw Hendrix, the Walker Brothers and Cat Stephens at the Odeon.

stargazer61 · 01/04/13 - 01:23

Muggsy wrote: »

I saw Hendrix, the Walker Brothers and Cat Stephens at the Odeon.

:eek: that's the one! Our paths have crossed!:D

aligail · 01/04/13 - 01:25

There are hundreds of aerial photos of Birmingham from the 1920s onwards on the Britain from above website. I was born there - along time ago !

Hogzilla · 01/04/13 - 01:28

mazzy50 wrote: »

I was at university in Brum from 1980, I can remember going to see The Jam at Bingley Hall which stood where the ICC is now.

Me too. Missed The Jam. And have no memory of Bingley Hall. I love that canal bit down there - near the Sealife Centre, now. Used to frequent the bars there, when it was revived, around the late 1990s.

Hey there!

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