Birmingham 1950s

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  • @darleytransportandtravel6353
    @darleytransportandtravel6353 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Gives one a warm comfortable feeling looking at these pictures. Everything makes more sense. Trams and buses that invite travel. A sense of purpose and meaning.

    •  21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Very well put, I totally agree.

  • @suereeves5994
    @suereeves5994 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Great pic of the tram going past the Shakespeare pub. Both long gone now.

  • @markmorrid8144
    @markmorrid8144 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    As a brummie born in 1962 it was a much better place way back its become unrecognisable now .

    • @peterwilliamallen1063
      @peterwilliamallen1063 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      As a Brummie born in 1955 I found Birmingham upto 1970 a dirt Dump riddled with slums and reminents of the second world war, from 1970 onwards Birmingham City Council got rid of the slums building new Houses and totaly rebuilding the City Centre and now is a beautiful modern cosmopolitan City to be proud of.

  • @stephen3511
    @stephen3511 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    A once beautiful city 😢

  • @MrDaiseymay
    @MrDaiseymay ปีที่แล้ว +20

    My Home City, during my growing up years. I can always date such photographs, by the Cars, and the fashions. They make me feel emmotional.

  • @GreatBritishRailways1
    @GreatBritishRailways1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Those really were the days. Regards, John

  • @nickb5391
    @nickb5391 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    When Birmingham was great, not like it is today unfortunately

    • @deanhowell5936
      @deanhowell5936 ปีที่แล้ว

      What's about it now? What has changed?

    • @knowhatimean5141
      @knowhatimean5141 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@deanhowell5936 am 68 and I went home on a bus a few weeks ago in Birmingham,the bus was full, and I was the only white person on that bus!!..thats what's changed.

    • @deanhowell5936
      @deanhowell5936 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@knowhatimean5141 is that a bad thing?

    • @_B.M_
      @_B.M_ 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@deanhowell5936 exactly. times change. different does not mean bad. Simply different!!

    • @Stinger2020
      @Stinger2020 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@_B.M_ is is bad now. I left brum in the 90s and now it's full of Muslims gangs, and groomers. It would be like going to the middle east and seeing white people and churches every where. Its different and bad.

  • @dazo69
    @dazo69 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Absolutely wonderful and there was 3 pictures of where i am from - Shard End, the Heathway and the old Beaufort cinema at the Fox and Goose 😁

    • @ozone1959
      @ozone1959 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I know what you mean, I'm from Erdington and used go to the fox and goose on a Sunday for the disco in 1979 with my first love ... Ahhh I still love and miss her.... But thats life 😂

  • @ROCKHITS572
    @ROCKHITS572 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Birmingham where i still live..... memories here nice video 👍👍

  • @stanjenkinson4520
    @stanjenkinson4520 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Excellent photos,well done

  • @denisfarrell164
    @denisfarrell164 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Was this before or after the invasion?😢

    • @_B.M_
      @_B.M_ 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Definitely after. All the invading was done by the Brits years ago when they went round colonising half the world. Nobody wanted them in all those countries, they just turned up, that's about as invading as you get.

  • @declanbutler5876
    @declanbutler5876 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Just look how clean everything is . Not a bit of graffiti in sight beautiful.

  • @Wench64
    @Wench64 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    As children we went to Lewis, to see father Christmas so excited, now wouldn't go if you paid me, so sad what's happened

    • @MrDaiseymay
      @MrDaiseymay 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      all references to Christ mas, has become illegal

    • @TrevorPoole-y7b
      @TrevorPoole-y7b 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      If Santa was down the pub all we got was Mr. Holly.

  • @stonebridgeblocks2571
    @stonebridgeblocks2571 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    I was in Birmingham about five years ago. I recognize nothing in these photos. It is now a completely different city.

    • @wendywolfman
      @wendywolfman ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Yup. Thank you Tony Blair.

    • @davidnarbett
      @davidnarbett ปีที่แล้ว

      These photographs are from SEVENTY years ago - Your comment is pointless

    • @stermindelves4251
      @stermindelves4251 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was born in 1960 and recognise most of the places pictured. Thank you

    • @Villa832
      @Villa832 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@wendywolfman😂😂😂😂😂😂😂I’m a Brummie born 1955. Tony Blair, don’t be ridiculous. I recognise many of those places. They disappeared in the 1960s and 1970s.

    • @wulfhere83
      @wulfhere83 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Most of what you see here is still standing, I've lived here my life I can name locations.
      But I know what you mean, architectural modernisation aside, Birmingham as a city has changed a great deal over 70 years.

  • @martiniv8924
    @martiniv8924 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Mermaid pub, collecting point for many a man (mainly Irish) for a days work back in the day, I miss so much from our past

    • @johnbowkett80
      @johnbowkett80 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I got a few shifts outside The Mermaid when I was 17 years old ...... 1973 . 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  • @oddjob1932
    @oddjob1932 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    1:39 wow, Centenary Square looked amazing back then

  • @anthonygee7687
    @anthonygee7687 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Being born in 1939 I can remember Birmingham when it was in England.

  • @GeoffreySayce
    @GeoffreySayce 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    A time when Britain was Great. Happy Days.

    • @Gunnar_Gunnarson
      @Gunnar_Gunnarson  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      This is a sentiment that I often hear from people who view the channel.

  • @LadyGds
    @LadyGds 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I think it would be good for everyone to return back to their corners! As a black woman born an raised in Birmingham, I agree that the country you see here in these pictures has long gone to the dogs. I hope this country can be restored back to it glory days, as much as I would like to enjoy the glory days of the carribean islands from which I inherently came. The war is over now - let's get rid of the welfare system and the NHS. Folks will soon start selling up and fleeing!

    • @peterwilliamallen1063
      @peterwilliamallen1063 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What utter rubbish, I grew up in these times and Birmingham was a smelly dity place, since it has been rebuilt it is a clean aired modern cosmopolitn City.

  • @pitbull2005
    @pitbull2005 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    So nostalgic for me. I remember the 'Circle' and going to the Odeon Kingstanding as a child! Life was so simple back then!

  • @35geordielad
    @35geordielad 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    An English city that was 100% English, not the shit hole it is today with many parts unrecognisable

  • @arnoldarnold4944
    @arnoldarnold4944 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I was born in nineteenth forty nine and I remember this well

  • @derekr54
    @derekr54 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    I loved Brum once now I can't stand the dive,I would rather pull my teeth out with pliers than be there now,it's become a third world doss house.

  • @mikebutler3263
    @mikebutler3263 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Love it !

  • @harvisingh6671
    @harvisingh6671 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Great Picture of Colmore Row, it looks amazing

  • @Peter-ts6wb
    @Peter-ts6wb 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    This is poignant. I grew up in Brum during the 50s. Change is inevitable as they say, but sadly not every change is desirable.

    • @MrDaiseymay
      @MrDaiseymay 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      and what say, did we have in it ?

  • @stevelinley1073
    @stevelinley1073 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    1:16 Kingstanding Circle, now a decaying mess

    • @MrDaiseymay
      @MrDaiseymay 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Always reminds me of our trips to Sutton Park

  • @GaryPrice-c2i
    @GaryPrice-c2i 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    All look at it nowadays 😢

  • @clarebutler990
    @clarebutler990 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Captions would have dded immeasurably to this.

  • @busterruff9369
    @busterruff9369 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    Birmingham is a vile place to live now days

    • @peterwilliamallen1063
      @peterwilliamallen1063 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How do you work that one out, Birmingham in those days was smelly and full of slums. I grew up in these times

  • @PaulEdwards-q9n
    @PaulEdwards-q9n 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Once a beautiful english city. Not any more im afraid .i wouldn't even think of going there today.

  • @Roy-in-U.K.
    @Roy-in-U.K. ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Born and bred in the city centre in the 50s it was always my home until the infestation which has dragged it down just like all third world countries.☹️

    • @_B.M_
      @_B.M_ 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Economically, it is doing better than it was in the 50s.

    • @Roy-in-U.K.
      @Roy-in-U.K. 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@_B.M_ I would agree economically however that’s the end of the story. Everything else has gone downhill due to mass immigration and crime. As a serving copper for 30 years I have seen the underbelly of the city which is progressively getting worse. Whatever money they throw at it or building they build, as the motto goes, you might be able to polish a turd but will still be a turd!😎🍺

    • @paddyanglais91
      @paddyanglais91 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      ​@@_B.M_yes, let's celebrate those all important GDP numbers in a modern day cultural wasteland

    • @baldieman64
      @baldieman64 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@_B.M_ That would be why the city council is bankrupt, and the city has the lowest employment rate in the country.

  • @madcarew5168
    @madcarew5168 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    If it wasn't for planners,trendy architects and their love of concrete we'd now have one of the best beautifull,classic cities in Europe.

    • @mrgoodintent
      @mrgoodintent 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      WELL SAID!!!!!!

  • @paulcarter6146
    @paulcarter6146 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    When birmingham was a nice place look of the state of it now absolute disgrace 😢

    • @MrDaiseymay
      @MrDaiseymay 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      All great Cities are the same, even London, and don't think it will ever change for the better

    • @peterwilliamallen1063
      @peterwilliamallen1063 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Did you live in this period, these photos only show the better bits, most of inner City Birmingham at the time of these photos was made up od slum housing , dirty factories and bombed out buildings from the second world war, far superior now

  • @jasonkirkham7243
    @jasonkirkham7243 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Notice how all the slabs on the sidewalks are all even proper job

  • @sabrinarogers8045
    @sabrinarogers8045 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    When birmingham was white

  • @daviddarrall9384
    @daviddarrall9384 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Those were the days of real tranquilty! 😊 UK

  • @Selena-ff5er
    @Selena-ff5er 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I know it wasn’t all rosey then but it was definitely a better place than today even the back to back houses with neighbours all chipping in toilets and the washing done in the yards gas lighting ha, well things move on .

    • @janetprice9037
      @janetprice9037 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes thank god for automatic washers and dryers and vacuum cleaner and in door toilets

  • @rosicalam
    @rosicalam ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I want to lives there ! But I in Hong Kong now😂

  • @andrewbennett7756
    @andrewbennett7756 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    R I P Birmingham like all other city's ,I was born in Liverpool 18 in 1945 in the 60 I had a and went to the cabin the birth of the Beatles served my time at fords and in a great union supporting are brothers. And sister in strikes but far better times life was easier trams great music I bought a house with my wife in 1971 now decades later the rot has set I love my city but it's getting over run not through vermin but in other ways it's a shame thanks to decades of badly run government starting with Blair opening the flood gates I feel sorry for the very you kids growing up they will have no life Christianity almost gone I wouldn't be surprised if the take over a great 2 cathedrals over the catholic and the protestant wat a city it was but there are still great Liverpool people here who will always make any one who comes here feel welcome ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @wef.rubbish4714
    @wef.rubbish4714 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Birmingham had got it's own big Ben?

    • @Gunnar_Gunnarson
      @Gunnar_Gunnarson  ปีที่แล้ว

      Who knew? Thanks for the comment.

    • @nickb5391
      @nickb5391 ปีที่แล้ว

      no it hasn't

    • @sausagemash3977
      @sausagemash3977 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nickb5391 Just cos you got a little big ben,

    • @lillianflorence6056
      @lillianflorence6056 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Gunnar_Gunnarsonclosed k in hockley, jewelry quarter

  • @MrBlaugeist
    @MrBlaugeist 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Long gone now , just memories

  • @LeonMoran-v3q
    @LeonMoran-v3q 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Miss school supplies.

  • @pirated8557
    @pirated8557 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    It was better in those days

    • @peterwilliamallen1063
      @peterwilliamallen1063 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Did you live in those days like I dis as a child, if you did you woudn't make such a silly comment

  • @lillianflorence6056
    @lillianflorence6056 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Scum live here now

  • @TheBrummie60
    @TheBrummie60 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    Islamic Republic of Brum, more like. 😥

    • @peterwilliamallen1063
      @peterwilliamallen1063 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      What Crap, there are no more Islamic people in Birmingham than London, Manchester or Paris

  • @A0121EP
    @A0121EP 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I was born in Birmingham in 1991 and I find this stupid. If you was born in 1985 you’d complain. If you was born in 1975 you’d complain. It’s a generational thing.

    • @shani1able
      @shani1able 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Who pissed on your cornflakes?

  • @arthurshelby3125
    @arthurshelby3125 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    RIP Brum.... murdered by immigration

    • @ozone1959
      @ozone1959 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      And corporation masquerading as government

    • @westy6214
      @westy6214 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      And horrible urban planning.

    • @MrDaiseymay
      @MrDaiseymay 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@westy6214 A Countrywide disease

    • @bernardlandymore7372
      @bernardlandymore7372 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So was my uncle.