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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 |
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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. |
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Some other images I have found.
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...5/DSC00334.jpg That's Salford Bridge which is now part of the Spaghetti Junction. http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...5/DSC00336.jpg Erdington (Birmingham) Race Course which no longer exists. http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43...ess/134415.jpg A 50's traffic jam - somewhere in town ![]() http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...aleEnd1960.jpg Dale End in 1960. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...dywood1968.jpg Anderson Steet in Ladywood, 1968. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...OTower1967.jpg BT Tower in 68
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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.
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Spaghetti Junction under construction: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...n5th200864.jpg
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Anyone remember what Brindley place looked like back in the 70's and 80's?
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Some other images I have found.
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...5/DSC00334.jpg That's Salford Bridge which is now part of the Spaghetti Junction. http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...5/DSC00336.jpg Erdington (Birmingham) Race Course which no longer exists. http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43...ess/134415.jpg A 50's traffic jam - somewhere in town ![]() http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...aleEnd1960.jpg Dale End in 1960. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...dywood1968.jpg Anderson Steet in Ladywood, 1968. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...OTower1967.jpg BT Tower in 68 ![]() You can see it the same shop on the very first post on the forum thread: Enjoy. |
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I wonder what the Swan Centre looked like as i must have been about 3 or 4 when it closed in the early noughties.
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I was born and bred in old birmingham 1952. This is where I was brought up
http://oldbirminghampictures.lefora....-road-hockley/ |
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Anyone remember what Brindley place looked like back in the 70's and 80's?
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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.
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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 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!
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![]() ![]() ![]() 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. |
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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.
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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 Quote:
Anyone remember what Brindley place looked like back in the 70's and 80's?
Old Birmingham Pictures http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...468406&page=62 Theres more as well |
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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. |
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Some other images I have found.
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...5/DSC00334.jpg That's Salford Bridge which is now part of the Spaghetti Junction. http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...5/DSC00336.jpg Erdington (Birmingham) Race Course which no longer exists. http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43...ess/134415.jpg A 50's traffic jam - somewhere in town ![]() http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...aleEnd1960.jpg Dale End in 1960. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...dywood1968.jpg Anderson Steet in Ladywood, 1968. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...OTower1967.jpg BT Tower in 68 ![]() |
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A blast from the past for you
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IIRC Telly Savalas gave a ringing endorsement of Brummie.
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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.
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IIRC Telly Savalas gave a ringing endorsement of Brummie.
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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!
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I saw Hendrix, the Walker Brothers and Cat Stephens at the Odeon.
that's the one! Our paths have crossed!
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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 !
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that's the one! Our paths have crossed!