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Old 31-03-2013, 15:21
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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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Old 31-03-2013, 16:03
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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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Old 31-03-2013, 16:17
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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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Old 31-03-2013, 16:23
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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.
Noooooooooooooooo. ! I loved the old Rag Market!
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Old 31-03-2013, 16:29
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Spaghetti Junction under construction: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...n5th200864.jpg
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Old 31-03-2013, 16:40
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Anyone remember what Brindley place looked like back in the 70's and 80's?
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Old 31-03-2013, 16:46
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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
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:


Enjoy.
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Old 31-03-2013, 16:51
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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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Old 31-03-2013, 17:45
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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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Old 31-03-2013, 18:31
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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.
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Old 31-03-2013, 18:59
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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.
A blast from the past for you

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

http://www.beat-surrender.com/wp-con...ransGlobal.jpg
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Old 31-03-2013, 19:28
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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
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!

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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Old 31-03-2013, 19:37
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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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Old 31-03-2013, 19:41
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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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Old 31-03-2013, 19:49
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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

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/showth...468406&page=62

Theres more as well
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Old 31-03-2013, 20:06
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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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Old 31-03-2013, 20:10
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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
I think the 50s traffic jam is up the top end of Corporation St?
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Old 31-03-2013, 20:12
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Old 31-03-2013, 20:15
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IIRC Telly Savalas gave a ringing endorsement of Brummie.
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Old 31-03-2013, 20:15
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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.
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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Old 31-03-2013, 20:16
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IIRC Telly Savalas gave a ringing endorsement of Brummie.
I think he was paid.
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Old 31-03-2013, 20:20
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Heres the link: Savalas does Birmingham.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxZ1xn2ml10
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Old 31-03-2013, 20:22
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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!
I saw Hendrix, the Walker Brothers and Cat Stephens at the Odeon.
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Old 31-03-2013, 20:23
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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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Old 31-03-2013, 20:25
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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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