I do really like watching these old films as they show the hope of the time that with all these new ideas and technology, paradise was just around the corner and we can all have a better future. And I think that many really did believe they could do it. Unfortunately, money, people, and technology whilst making things better never made the big jump they were hoping for but we do forget how bad things really were in the past.
From watching these pieces it seems people felt a similar way at the time, that in embracing technology and modernity we lose an important human element of life. Quiet time, simplicity, local community- sure those are things people did and had because there was no other option, but I think a lack of options isn't necessarily bad compared to the hyper-connectivity and expectation of convenience we have today- life may have been harder but people have always been able to find happiness, entertainment, and peace either because of or despite their circumstances. And no matter what happens people will always have problems or complaints- because those things are based on expectations.
Well put indeed. Full marks to you. It’s so good to read an entry articulating an impartial view of this period. There are far too many people on these threads who seem to have a rose-tinted view of the past.
Fascinating. Imagine how the city centre was transformed around then and was how I remember growing up, and has now changed again over the last decade or so.
The intention was here, but the actualisation never truly materialised. Old slums cleared only to create new slums of tomorrow. Rather than spreading the cost over a longer period in order to gain a superior quality product, the budget was used to produce more units. The noteable difference today is not in its architecture but in the standard of society. Yes, back then, decent people required decent accommodation, but sadly, they were sold short. Based on Stuttgart in Germany, which was developed after WW2, the difference in quality is there to see. The old saying, "Buy cheap, buy twice," has never been truer.
Notice how there's no background music. None. That's because the subject matter is interesting. Modern directors take note - if you feel the need to add background music, your film is boring.
Yes, our ever-shrinking attention spans are coddled through the disappearance of static shots, and constant supply of graphic overlays and soundbeds. The "tune-out factor" is the enemy of ad sales, so you mustn't give content room to breathe. This film begins with 3½ minutes of establishing shots - a city waking up - free of dialogue, but rich with empathy inducing audio. Footsteps ... a milk float and clinking bottles. And the old film patina was so comforting in a nostalgic sense, that I was almost disappointed when the voice-over began.
@@danmayberry1185 And don't forget at the start of any programme they spend about 3 mins previewing what we are about to watch in the next hour. Then if it's on a commercial channel, before the ads it's - "coming up........" with another preview, treating us all as if we are thick. Tv has dumbed down massively. That's why these BBC archives are priceless.
@@Ian-gw2vx Quite right, and if it's depression you're after, compare the opening crawlers in new and old movies. Not sure what it's called, but historical context was set up in lengthy paragraph at the start of black and white movies, and appeared for about ten seconds. Opening text grew shorter by the mid-70s (A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...), and now viewers seem to require thirty seconds to read two or three brief sentences broken into separate shots.
I remember the Bus Tickets that were handed to you on those Buses they were about one and a half inch`s square grey with very faint Monogram and Numerical print and how the Bus Conducters could read them is a mystery ? I also like the short clip with the Birmingham Battery chimney in the backround wich was loaded for the last time before it was toppled.
The irony is the 1970s housing lasted less well than the Victorian slums they replaced. What we could do with now is less every-man-for-himself and more of the collective spirit we see here.
Whole streets of perfectly good Victorian/early 20th Century houses were being demolished the decade before last in northern towns and cities (such as Middlesbrough) because,sadly,sufficient jobs weren't there to sustain the community so most were being vacated to sit empty and then being stripped by the criminal element and trashed by vandals. Those houses were sturdier and more spacious than many of these new housing developments which are presented to look flashy but turn out to be smaller and boxier than they appear outwardly.
Shame that I was too young to understand or remember that period, Alan. The programme aired when I would have been just thirteen months old and in the pushchair!
@@rjjcms1 Sorry to correct you I live in Birmingham and was an apprentice Gas Fitter with the West Midlands Gas Board at the time and went in these houses to take out the Gas Meters for demolishen and they were the utter pits to live in, full of damp and decay and literaly falling down
How is he from Hockley and speaks like he does. Must be a Villa fan. I left small Heath in 1978 and still have a bit of brummie in my voice/. Tough city of tough honest workers.
My mother grew up in Aston and knew Frank Price ,he was a,Villa fan .She moved to Small Heath and bought up six Bluenoses(our father was a Geordie who loved Newcastle United) I a!so moved away in1976 and lost my accent but every now and again a word will slip out that sounds SO Brummie :)
@@kevindavison8657 coincidence my mother was a Geordi who went to Birmingham at the end of the war having been twice bombed, she gave birth to us in small Heath, I left in 1978 when 20 years old. The family progressed on and got some of their money back. Loraine family well known geordie family from Kirkharle
I just love looking at Birmingham videos of the past especially from the 1950s up to the 1990s for been someone who born in Birmingham in the mid 1960s and lived close to Birmingham and visited it a lot it is lovely looking at these videos not just because they are interesting but because it is nice to see how Brum was when I knew it from when I was young and growing up for Birmingham has changed so much and is rather unrecognisable now in parts because it has changed so much but these videos bring back happy memories of the Birmingham that I remember and the Birmingham that I loved and I do hope the BBC have got more old archive footage of Birmingham in their archives that I hope they will post on their TH-cam channel.
When I started work in 1989, I used typewriters, not computers. Having left school at 1986 aged sixteen, I was a YTS Trainee and learned how to type, obtaining an RSA 1 Typing qualification, then RSA 2 in due course. Until 1997, technology didn't reach the company. I am not a techno geek!
I lived in Birmingham during the nineties and the difference from what it was in the seventies till the nineties is quite a bit of a contrast and then compared to what it is today , even more so. Strangely yet still the same in some parts but very , very different in other parts
Frank Price obviously had elocution lessons lol. I don't mean that to be offensive to Brummies, i'm from just outside Brum. I just find it amusing when you see well known people like politicians, actors etc, talking about their tough, slum backgrounds in posh accents. Michael Caine said he was told to talk posh in interviews when he first became famous, but after a while just went back to his natural cockney accent.
Most people had a posh voice they'd apply if they were at work or dealing with formal situations. I remember my mom did. It was usually called your telephone voice
"All authority must be kept under constant scrutiny" - which is why letting the press be dominated by Murdoch, Tory appointees to the BBC and Facebook is a terrible idea.
I would have been just thirteen months old and in the pushchair then. Too young to understand or remember that period first time round. Am now in my early fifties!
@@stevenhoughton1406 Birmingham Council Houses built by Birmingham City council were of the same desighn whether they were built on a new housing estate in Birmingham or in Tamworth, Daventry, Telford or Chelmsley wood, the only way you can tell that this is Chelmsley wood is the desighn on lamp post which Birmingham never had concrete style lamp posts
@neiljacques1977 I thought I recognised Winchester Drive as my Dad used to live on Ipswich Walk , those men walking looks like right by what used to be the Roundhouse pub
Amazing time-capsule film, great to see. Loved the Bus-porn and the old cars lol. In my lifetime, our society has changed almost beyond recognition, mostly due to technology. Wonder what Brum will look like in another 52 years....not that I will be here to see lol.
Hi from Ontario Canada born in Birmingham, but unfortunately had to leave at age 27 in 1981 because of what i could see where the city was going ,well he didn't transform anything ,he completely screwed it up, sorry for the negative comment
Well before making silly comments about him screwing Birminghm up from acroos the pond in Canada I suggest you come to Birmingham now and see the finnished product of a totaly Modern and Green City
@@peterwilliamallen1063 Hi i did come over to Birmingham in 2015 , that's why i made the comment, its a mess full of people from other cultures, that want to change the British culture , to suit them and that's not acceptable, so I won't be making anymore silly remarks it's all yours and at 70 years old, i will not be coming back again, but i thank you for your comment
Yes, it used to be a beautiful Medieval City with timber framed buildings, some of it got bombed but most was destroyed after the war in the 60's by town planners and their brutal concrete and tower blocks. And the drugs developed for trench warfare ended up with the young people, and the nerve gas ended up on our fruit and veg. We have loads of food now but it is not good
@@unnamedchannel1237agree! When I first moved to east London for uni from a quiet West Midlands suburb, the night time sound of heavy traffic, buses and police/ambulance sirens constantly going off made me think I’d never sleep again! After a couple of weeks though the brain just categorises under white background noise and it was no bother at all - except when I went home for the holidays I then found sleep difficult because it was far too silent lol 😅
The 60's, brutalist redesign, gave the city an edge. I started exploring the city in the early 90s, and it was pretty much the same. I think that padestrianisation ruins the access and the general vibe. Also, the new tram network is an expensive vanity project that doesn't make any sense to me. The local council, BCC, certainly knows how to waste money (are effectively bankrupt).
Birmingham should have saved. instead it was slaughtered, by the developers, by the council who used the stigma generated by the awful slums to excuse the demolishing of quality victorian commercial and public buildings to make money, the buildings they built are already being wiped off the face of the city, they were of so low quality. it seems clear to me that the architects and the councillors of this era did not have the resouces to build adequate replacements for the city they slaughtered and today it remains a car and capatilist infested place almost entirely without beauty, and the bits left are precious.
Unfortunately, much as I dislike BCC, they are actually not responsible for much of the loss of Victorian commercial architecture. BCC often rejected plans for redevelopment, and the developers then allowed the buildings to get to the state where demolishing was the only option. BCC could stop development, but they did not have the powers to force owners to maintain the buildings.
I grew up in a dilapidated two up two down terrace with an outdoor toilet in Wigan. My parents worked hard. They moved up the housing ladder, and we eventually moved to the USA when I was 16. If you work hard enough and make the right decisions, you can get out of poverty.
Should be called How Birmingham was ruined. Or, How great architecture was lost. Too much beautiful architecture lost to inner city over development that has created a void of Birminghams cultural heritage, and still it goes on. Check out the monster to the right of The Council House as an example if you are ever in Birmingham.
@KILKennyLaDa9898-js2nr of course it's a woman, you get women with slightly mannish features....doubt trans operations were advanced in 1971 let alone before, also society attitudes back then a trans would probably get beaten to death in public then...remember UK only legalised gay relations 4 years prior (1967)
And this is the wealth enjoyed from the days of the British Empire, is it? The British people have never had any of the wealth the UK has generated. We should have got rid of the aristocracy, like the French did. Victorian businessmen using people like worker ants. The next time a Brexiteer whines on about rule Britannia, show him this.
The wealth of the empire went into the war and, if you would believe it (and you should) into foreign investment, PARTICULARLY the Americas. A very similar story for France but investment into Germany and Russia.
@@stewartmackay This is not about Britain, this video is about Birmingham only and no the wealth of the empire never went into the 2nd World war as Great Britain came out of it broke with rationing of food nd so what if Britain made money for 200 years before that !!
@@tutornickah the token ‘covert’ racist never commenting on the actual film but instead trying to improve their sad lonely life by attempting dissent in the comments 🙄
❤ YOU NO IT TRUE THE COUNCIL IS BAD ENOUGH IS ENOUGH 👉 FROM 👉 🫢 THE 1960'S TODAY 🙏 NEW CITY I' HOPE YES HAPPY TIMES FOR THE CITY OF BRUM....YES UP AND UP 😊 😉 ....
My Dad was in this short video twice. He sadly passed away this year but lovely to see him. I would have been 1 when this was filmed.
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Sorry for your loss, Leigh.
I do really like watching these old films as they show the hope of the time that with all these new ideas and technology, paradise was just around the corner and we can all have a better future. And I think that many really did believe they could do it. Unfortunately, money, people, and technology whilst making things better never made the big jump they were hoping for but we do forget how bad things really were in the past.
What a well balanced outlook
Well put.
From watching these pieces it seems people felt a similar way at the time, that in embracing technology and modernity we lose an important human element of life. Quiet time, simplicity, local community- sure those are things people did and had because there was no other option, but I think a lack of options isn't necessarily bad compared to the hyper-connectivity and expectation of convenience we have today- life may have been harder but people have always been able to find happiness, entertainment, and peace either because of or despite their circumstances. And no matter what happens people will always have problems or complaints- because those things are based on expectations.
Debt was just around the corner and bankrupcy
Well put indeed. Full marks to you. It’s so good to read an entry articulating an impartial view of this period. There are far too many people on these threads who seem to have a rose-tinted view of the past.
Classic 1970s footage and editing with flair and storytelling.
Fascinating. Imagine how the city centre was transformed around then and was how I remember growing up, and has now changed again over the last decade or so.
The intention was here, but the actualisation never truly materialised. Old slums cleared only to create new slums of tomorrow. Rather than spreading the cost over a longer period in order to gain a superior quality product, the budget was used to produce more units. The noteable difference today is not in its architecture but in the standard of society. Yes, back then, decent people required decent accommodation, but sadly, they were sold short. Based on Stuttgart in Germany, which was developed after WW2, the difference in quality is there to see. The old saying, "Buy cheap, buy twice," has never been truer.
We never had chairs in morning assembly we sat on the floor
Me, too. Woodthorpe Junior & Infant School, Kings Heath…
same here
9:33 "good morning everybodeee" Love the Brummie accent!!
Yaw oruyt chuyf ?
Birmingham people are some of the best people I have met.
Incredible footage.
Notice how there's no background music. None. That's because the subject matter is interesting. Modern directors take note - if you feel the need to add background music, your film is boring.
Amen to that. 👍🏻
Yes, our ever-shrinking attention spans are coddled through the disappearance of static shots, and constant supply of graphic overlays and soundbeds. The "tune-out factor" is the enemy of ad sales, so you mustn't give content room to breathe. This film begins with 3½ minutes of establishing shots - a city waking up - free of dialogue, but rich with empathy inducing audio. Footsteps ... a milk float and clinking bottles. And the old film patina was so comforting in a nostalgic sense, that I was almost disappointed when the voice-over began.
@@danmayberry1185 And don't forget at the start of any programme they spend about 3 mins previewing what we are about to watch in the next hour. Then if it's on a commercial channel, before the ads it's - "coming up........" with another preview, treating us all as if we are thick. Tv has dumbed down massively. That's why these BBC archives are priceless.
@@Ian-gw2vx Quite right, and if it's depression you're after, compare the opening crawlers in new and old movies. Not sure what it's called, but historical context was set up in lengthy paragraph at the start of black and white movies, and appeared for about ten seconds. Opening text grew shorter by the mid-70s (A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...), and now viewers seem to require thirty seconds to read two or three brief sentences broken into separate shots.
Loved those scenes,as the day begins peacefully and gradually gets busier. Real slice of life.
I grew up in Brum in the 60s and 70s so this is absolute gem to me; though I’d like to think anyone would find it fascinating.
Classic film brought tears to my eyes
A dated video but covers so much of Birmingham society of this time - thank you for sharing
I remember the Bus Tickets that were handed to you on those Buses they were about one and a half inch`s square grey with very faint Monogram and Numerical print and how the Bus Conducters could read them is a mystery ? I also like the short clip with the Birmingham Battery chimney in the backround wich was loaded for the last time before it was toppled.
The irony is the 1970s housing lasted less well than the Victorian slums they replaced. What we could do with now is less every-man-for-himself and more of the collective spirit we see here.
Whole streets of perfectly good Victorian/early 20th Century houses were being demolished the decade before last in northern towns and cities (such as Middlesbrough) because,sadly,sufficient jobs weren't there to sustain the community so most were being vacated to sit empty and then being stripped by the criminal element and trashed by vandals. Those houses were sturdier and more spacious than many of these new housing developments which are presented to look flashy but turn out to be smaller and boxier than they appear outwardly.
Shame that I was too young to understand or remember that period, Alan. The programme aired when I would have been just thirteen months old and in the pushchair!
The right to buy was the start of the ruin of social housing
@@rjjcms1 Sorry to correct you I live in Birmingham and was an apprentice Gas Fitter with the West Midlands Gas Board at the time and went in these houses to take out the Gas Meters for demolishen and they were the utter pits to live in, full of damp and decay and literaly falling down
The video quality's amazing. Must have been recorded on film not video tape!!
You can tell it’s film from the small flickers where there is defects in the film. From my little knowledge video tape does not do this.
This was indeed recorded on film
16mm film. Sound recorded separately, as a rule.
@@DrCassette why am I not subscribed to you? I am now. 👍
@@swanvictor887BBC used separate sound for quite a while, whilst ITV used sound on film.
My god a boby on his beat 😂don't see that now do we😂
My late father was a Community Beat Officer in the Midlands (he left the Force in 1988 on medical grounds and died eleven years ago!)
How is he from Hockley and speaks like he does. Must be a Villa fan. I left small Heath in 1978 and still have a bit of brummie in my voice/. Tough city of tough honest workers.
My mother grew up in Aston and knew Frank Price ,he was a,Villa fan .She moved to Small Heath and bought up six Bluenoses(our father was a Geordie who loved Newcastle United) I a!so moved away in1976 and lost my accent but every now and again a word will slip out that sounds SO Brummie :)
I bet he didn't speak like that when he was a lad 😅 got into speaking 'posh' when he went into politics!
UTV
Waverley Grammar School me 1970 - 1975. 👍
@@kevindavison8657 coincidence my mother was a Geordi who went to Birmingham at the end of the war having been twice bombed, she gave birth to us in small Heath, I left in 1978 when 20 years old. The family progressed on and got some of their money back. Loraine family well known geordie family from Kirkharle
The housing in Birmingham before it was regenerated reminded me of Peaky Blinder.
You will have a job, the Peaky Blinders never existed, it is a TV programe filmed in Liverpool and the Black Country Museum
Magnificent footage.
I would have been 5 years old.
I just love looking at Birmingham videos of the past especially from the 1950s up to the 1990s for been someone who born in Birmingham in the mid 1960s and lived close to Birmingham and visited it a lot it is lovely looking at these videos not just because they are interesting but because it is nice to see how Brum was when I knew it from when I was young and growing up for Birmingham has changed so much and is rather unrecognisable now in parts because it has changed so much but these videos bring back happy memories of the Birmingham that I remember and the Birmingham that I loved and I do hope the BBC have got more old archive footage of Birmingham in their archives that I hope they will post on their TH-cam channel.
It's weird to see typewriters on the tables instead of computers. :)
That sweeping change came in the 80s. It went from the kind of setup you see here to a modern computerised in the space of that decade.
When I started work in 1989, I used typewriters, not computers. Having left school at 1986 aged sixteen, I was a YTS Trainee and learned how to type, obtaining an RSA 1 Typing qualification, then RSA 2 in due course. Until 1997, technology didn't reach the company. I am not a techno geek!
I lived in Birmingham during the nineties and the difference from what it was in the seventies till the nineties is quite a bit of a contrast and then compared to what it is today , even more so.
Strangely yet still the same in some parts but very , very different in other parts
Yeah the native British were being replaced. Go back today if you want to feel like a tourist in your own country.
@ I feel like a foreigner in some parts of Sydney as it is
What a lovely headmaster
The curse of 'progress'. Always top-down, never asked for and utterly destructive of real, organic communities.
9.01
"Keep power under scrutiny"
That newspaper editor would never get that job now!
so true..lol 🤐
God those school days takes me back.
The whole ‘Good Morning Mr …., Good morning everyone.’ And the hym’s.
Yeah I thought that. The little brummie accents took me right back 😢
Frank Price obviously had elocution lessons lol. I don't mean that to be offensive to Brummies, i'm from just outside Brum. I just find it amusing when you see well known people like politicians, actors etc, talking about their tough, slum backgrounds in posh accents. Michael Caine said he was told to talk posh in interviews when he first became famous, but after a while just went back to his natural cockney accent.
Most people had a posh voice they'd apply if they were at work or dealing with formal situations. I remember my mom did. It was usually called your telephone voice
Look at Birmingham now and tell me diversity is a strength
What's wrong Birmingham now ?
After what I saw not long ago at the clumsy swan pub by those liberty taking scum not a chance.
It was always diverse. Didn't you see the video? Problem is all the industry and business has left/gone and the lower orders have taken over.
"All authority must be kept under constant scrutiny" - which is why letting the press be dominated by Murdoch, Tory appointees to the BBC and Facebook is a terrible idea.
Absolutely this.
I would have been just thirteen months old and in the pushchair then. Too young to understand or remember that period first time round. Am now in my early fifties!
Must be Chelmsley Wood being built @ 01:21
Or "The Vale".....
Definitely Chelmsley Wood I can tell by the flats and some of the houses
@@stevenhoughton1406 Birmingham Council Houses built by Birmingham City council were of the same desighn whether they were built on a new housing estate in Birmingham or in Tamworth, Daventry, Telford or Chelmsley wood, the only way you can tell that this is Chelmsley wood is the desighn on lamp post which Birmingham never had concrete style lamp posts
Winchester Drive to be precise. Kingsgate and Winchester House being built. Also video later on of Bosworth Drive
@neiljacques1977 I thought I recognised Winchester Drive as my Dad used to live on Ipswich Walk , those men walking looks like right by what used to be the Roundhouse pub
Amazing time-capsule film, great to see. Loved the Bus-porn and the old cars lol. In my lifetime, our society has changed almost beyond recognition, mostly due to technology. Wonder what Brum will look like in another 52 years....not that I will be here to see lol.
Waiting for Angus Young's guitar to start the long intro to the mighty Hells Bells....
Hi from Ontario Canada born in Birmingham, but unfortunately had to leave at age 27 in 1981 because of what i could see where the city was going ,well he didn't transform anything ,he completely screwed it up, sorry for the negative comment
Well before making silly comments about him screwing Birminghm up from acroos the pond in Canada I suggest you come to Birmingham now and see the finnished product of a totaly Modern and Green City
@@peterwilliamallen1063 Hi i did come over to Birmingham in 2015 , that's why i made the comment, its a mess full of people from other cultures, that want to change the British culture , to suit them and that's not acceptable, so I won't be making anymore silly remarks it's all yours and at 70 years old, i will not be coming back again, but i thank you for your comment
Yes, it used to be a beautiful Medieval City with timber framed buildings, some of it got bombed but most was destroyed after the war in the 60's by town planners and their brutal concrete and tower blocks. And the drugs developed for trench warfare ended up with the young people, and the nerve gas ended up on our fruit and veg. We have loads of food now but it is not good
Thanks for uploading this little gem, imagine floor walking with a cigarette hanging out your mouth lol
Frank Windsor doing the narration?
8:18 drive you mad listening to them typewriters all day, DRIVE U MAD😬
I was thinking the same thing . However when you are around cetain sounds for long enough your mind has a clever way of ignoring sounds after a while
@@unnamedchannel1237agree! When I first moved to east London for uni from a quiet West Midlands suburb, the night time sound of heavy traffic, buses and police/ambulance sirens constantly going off made me think I’d never sleep again! After a couple of weeks though the brain just categorises under white background noise and it was no bother at all - except when I went home for the holidays I then found sleep difficult because it was far too silent lol 😅
I thought Telly Savalas modernised Birmingham. Responsible partly for the Industrial Revolution indeed.
great sequences of social historical significance. Amazing school dinner footage, bet the main meal was lukewarm by the time the kids got them
The 60's, brutalist redesign, gave the city an edge. I started exploring the city in the early 90s, and it was pretty much the same. I think that padestrianisation ruins the access and the general vibe. Also, the new tram network is an expensive vanity project that doesn't make any sense to me. The local council, BCC, certainly knows how to waste money (are effectively bankrupt).
Birmingham should have saved. instead it was slaughtered, by the developers, by the council who used the stigma generated by the awful slums to excuse the demolishing of quality victorian commercial and public buildings to make money, the buildings they built are already being wiped off the face of the city, they were of so low quality. it seems clear to me that the architects and the councillors of this era did not have the resouces to build adequate replacements for the city they slaughtered and today it remains a car and capatilist infested place almost entirely without beauty, and the bits left are precious.
Unfortunately, much as I dislike BCC, they are actually not responsible for much of the loss of Victorian commercial architecture. BCC often rejected plans for redevelopment, and the developers then allowed the buildings to get to the state where demolishing was the only option. BCC could stop development, but they did not have the powers to force owners to maintain the buildings.
Building jobs are done so that they can cream it
Isn't Birmingham where Heavy Metal was born? Bands like Judas Priest and Iron Maiden?
Yes it was. Black Sabbath especially.
Does that include headbanging?
Yep, Black Sabbath released their debut album the year before this was filmed.
@@Spellchec They released 2 albums in 1970....Paranoid the 2nd one which obviously has the title track which was a smash hit for them
Who else remembers those coloured metal water jugs at lunchtime!
All in all, you're just another brick in the wall.
Many of those kids are grandparents now.
Spraying paraffin onto the walls? really? never heard of that before, certainly not a safe thing to do.
I grew up in a dilapidated two up two down terrace with an outdoor toilet in Wigan. My parents worked hard. They moved up the housing ladder, and we eventually moved to the USA when I was 16. If you work hard enough and make the right decisions, you can get out of poverty.
If luck smiles upon you. There are plenty of perfectly decent, sensible people who work until they bleed, and who never get anywhere.
It would be a dream to move to the USA. I think there’s a lot more opportunity to succeed than here in the UK.
Birming Hammer ?
Should be called How Birmingham was ruined. Or, How great architecture was lost. Too much beautiful architecture lost to inner city over development that has created a void of Birminghams cultural heritage, and still it goes on. Check out the monster to the right of The Council House as an example if you are ever in Birmingham.
Glasgow just like Birmingham a bit of a dump now both are a calamity i don't know any of my neighbours no community spirit.
Now Bankrupt!
Like other councils, it s the Council that is bankrupt not the City
Why , has it been modernised ?
Yes Birmingham is now modernised, this film is about Birmingham in the 1960's
We now know hitler didn’t die in that bunker.
Here for the gammon tears in the comments section.
8:09 Wow they even hired trans women back then!
Looks like a woman to me?
Do you mean the typist?
@KILKennyLaDa9898-js2nr of course it's a woman, you get women with slightly mannish features....doubt trans operations were advanced in 1971 let alone before, also society attitudes back then a trans would probably get beaten to death in public then...remember UK only legalised gay relations 4 years prior (1967)
Trans people would not have openly existed in public in 1971,i doubt anyway.... that's just a strong faced woman
Birmingham has been modernised?
And this is the wealth enjoyed from the days of the British Empire, is it? The British people have never had any of the wealth the UK has generated. We should have got rid of the aristocracy, like the French did. Victorian businessmen using people like worker ants. The next time a Brexiteer whines on about rule Britannia, show him this.
The wealth of the empire went into the war and, if you would believe it (and you should) into foreign investment, PARTICULARLY the Americas. A very similar story for France but investment into Germany and Russia.
@@ignotumperignotius630 "The wealth of the empire went into the war" - that just isnt true. Britain made money for 200 years before that.
@@stewartmackay This is not about Britain, this video is about Birmingham only and no the wealth of the empire never went into the 2nd World war as Great Britain came out of it broke with rationing of food nd so what if Britain made money for 200 years before that !!
@@peterwilliamallen1063 I think you need to re-read my comment.
Wow so many white faces!
Your point is?
You not see the diversity in the School Assembly?
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@@tutornickah the token ‘covert’ racist never commenting on the actual film but instead trying to improve their sad lonely life by attempting dissent in the comments 🙄
@@tutornick I think his point is - look at Birmingham today.
Birmingham is modernized? Not so sure about that.
Well I suggest you take a day trip to Birmingham and find out for your self
Wow real English people in Birmingham!!!
Diversity???
White Privellege.
Few seconds of a Copper walking his beat...needs to be a recruits training film..that'll discourage Woke,Lefties,having to wash and get exercise!!!
My thoughts exactly!!!
You have a Mental illness
this was before the invasion of 🚢 people ✊🏻🇺🇸🏴👍🏻😎 vote Farage and make Britain 🇬🇧 GREAT BRITAIN AGAIN 💪🏻✊🏻🏴👍🏻
I grew up in brum when all these developments were only a few years old. It went downhill so fast
❤ YOU NO IT TRUE THE COUNCIL IS BAD ENOUGH IS ENOUGH 👉 FROM 👉 🫢 THE 1960'S TODAY 🙏 NEW CITY I' HOPE YES HAPPY TIMES FOR THE CITY OF BRUM....YES UP AND UP 😊 😉 ....
8:09 Wow they even hired trans women back then!