Vintage video : Handsworth Riots, Lozells Rd, Birmingham, UK, 1985 - compilation of news reports
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- Vintage video : Handsworth Riots, Lozells Rd, Birmingham, UK ,1985 - compilation of news reports...
35 years ago the Handsworth Riots erupted after an attempted arrest by traffic police on the Handsworth Frontline of Lozells Road in Birmingham - and lasted 2 days during which over 50 shops were burnt down, two people died and many others wounded.............
The then Home Secretary - Douglas Hurd - visited the area the morning after and had to escape and was bundled into a Police van after missiles were thrown at him by the angry crowd.....peace was only restored with a heavy Police presence - who made a deal with & asked the local Rastafarian leaders for help in calming the angry youths............
For a fascinating 'inside account' of the days leading up to the riot and an eye witness account of the incident that led to the outbreak of violence outside the Acapulco Cafe on the Lozells Road Frontline - check out this book by Irish author Dervla Murphy called 'A tale of two cities'. The author was a regular at Villa Cross Pub - that was raided a few days before the Riots and was tolerated to a degree by the regulars on the Lozells Road Frontline. Her book also gives a fascinating account of the what she observed going on in both the Villa Cross Pub & the Acapulco Cafe - check it out here:
www.amazon.co....
BIG RESPECT TO GUVNA GREGAH FOR EDITING & PROCESSING THE VIDEO
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BIG Up urself @saffron Saffron for uploading this report - I am born & bred in Birmingham and have been living in Handsworth for 12 yrs now - I knew about the riots from the young age but never really seen any footage in detail like this - Thank-you sir
My pleasure- Big Respect 🙏🏽
Give thanks for the upload. Born and raised in Birmingham and they teach us nothing of the Handsworth riots.
Houston's mccaine I’m from Brum and can only agree
Handsworth is as mixed as you can get
Birmingham is full of local racist in denial. Segregated city with no integration at all.
@@johnclark7065 are you that sad that all you do is make different accounts copy and pasting the same thing to shit on a city??
I was born down the road (Aston/Perry Barr) in 78. I was 7 years old when this happened. Can still remember schools closing early and everyone being sent home as there were threats the riots could spread across Birchfield and Aston.
We were absolutely terrified..
Can remember those days like yesterday! It was ruff,but we have come a long way.
Soldier of most high army No we haven’t
Long way? How so?
Joking aren’t you, things were far better , see, black and white together, like it should be, I lived in. Handsworth until 1972, I remember the riots well, but didn’t really know why? Was it cause the police are trouble makers, I remember all the cops on horseback, it was electrifying ,the atmosphere in the city......
rough.
My Catholic Northern Irish Nan lived on Alma way Newtown up the road from the cross guns pub in the 60's up until the demolition of the estate in the 2000 and something, she was one of the first and last. All of my mixed raced aunts and uncles resided there and her house was a base where she held court :) I could rant about this aspect of life so much but it would turn into an essay. I hold this general area close to my heart as it showed me culture class race etc etc pricelessness that cant be taught or spoon fed. I think the priest is called Father Fallon from St Francis church where my Mother and Father were married and I attended the primary school for a short while. Also in this clip is my Fathers cousin Leroy Anderson 8.55 mins in, now sadly not with us no more God bless, and God bless your words too. Long live the people whom struggled and still struggle to this day. X
brilliant interesting story mate ,blessed
@@joslynanderson4681 An Anderson too, any relation to Leroy? "This town" on t.v at the moment???? doesn't serve this period of time justice, wet and wishy washy.
The father teaching his son to do the right thing then saying they want a scapegoat had me in tears. 😢 Plus the fact no charges? Family with morals. Rare.
My Dad was area manager of Handsworth social services when the riots happened, I was young so wasn’t told a lot but Dad often talked about it later in life and about the damage done. I later worked there school summer play schemes and met so many wonderful people.
Omg 28 Sec then you see me white hat dark glasses sweet 16🤦🏽♀️
Rivalias Wigs no way
Holy fck 😂
She looked about 40. How old are you now ?
And me
How have u gone lighter
I remember every minute of this , I was this as a teenager and saw it all, I remember the post office brothers dying , and the walls of the house being so hot u couldn’t touch your hands on it..police was hate filled racists who treated ethnic minorities as shit, I remember getting a producer for pushing some ones car from the outside that broke down on Carlyle rd Lozells ...yes I shit you not..also had 2 producer tickets from 2 different coopers within the space of 2 roads !! Yes carpenters st to archibold road . All in all it was a tragic night ☹️
Can you remember what Crompton road was like back in the 80s? It's not far from archibald rd
@@0121Shah of course bro.. u had crompton arms pub in the middle , bookies across the road and sira motors on the corner of Churchill road .. they got new build house where the pub used to be ..used to have like 100 rastas doing blues party back in the days 😃😀👍❤️
Who’s here in 2020 ✊🏽
Pakistanis Indians and Bangladeshi people rebuilt handsworth and lozells. Humans can still live here
@@hassankhan155 other races too rebuilt the area, are Pakistanis 'construction experts?' That's news to me
Who’s here 2024
It was not a minor incident
A black man was stopped by police under the SUS law and handsworth said we’ve HAD ENOUGH 🙏🏾✊🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🫡🫡🫡🫡😍😍😍✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
Look at that poor english couple, who've lived through both wars , standing on their doorstep watching the disgusting treatment of their country. Utter disgraceful.
the commonwealth countries fought in the war to save the uk
Cry more. Did you really think there wouldn't be consequences for what the British did around the world? Say hello to karma
🤡
Obviously you would not talk of Slavery, that you lot brought about, Good Jobbwe know about all that know, so we can fight for reparations for how the Black, Asian and Arabic countries who have had their countries plundered by the 'Empire' I guess you will be laughing with Joy at the way new born black babies were thrown into the hungry mouth of crocodiles during slavery times.
Steel Pulse were visionaries. They seen this coming.
How are you a visionary if all you see is destruction?
@@captainharris8980oh dear, I'm wondering if you still need ab answer to that ridiculous question
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"we've been stoned on two occasions driving through the streets". That means something else around these parts pal.
That happen to me every time I go b21
Hell' I'm High now🤣
"...but if your politicians stir it up, it will increase; and of course if a recession takes place, the foreigner in your midst will find resentment if he continues employed while British people can't find work, I admit that!" Norman Washington 'Daddy' Manley #Word
And a long,biting recession there was,starting in the late 70s and not relinquishing its grip on most regions outside the more prosperous south from its grip until the middle or late 80s,though there were always those pockets of comparative prosperity right through the decade. Even down south there were still somewhat run-down areas in 1985 and the earlier part of 1986,as I remember. Both sides of the wealth divide could be seen,depending where you went. Though there were long-established pockets of that kind of affluence and lifestyle already,outside of the City of London the yuppie period the 80s gets associated most strongly with was really from the second half of 1986 to 1989 - a bit like how the things the 60s became most famous for were principally from the middle and later years of that decade.
That reporter at the beginning saying the police had clearly had far too much to drink then admit they had been stoned twice.... tut tut... and stealing the booty 😂
was in aston uni, went to a fellow students place to watch superbowl, coming home on my bike, 2 police on every corner in that area after the riots
This is a very good video quality and a very long documentary unlike mnay otehr riots in England that had a short documentary and bad vedio quality and most of the time the camara was rolling during the nigth
I grew up in Handsworth and was 17 when this was filmed...
Handsworth revolution man, black liberation struggle catch a wild fire.
@@nyakwarObat💩hole then 💩hole now
What road is this in Handsworth? I’m from Aston
Lozells
Lowell's rd
I’m confused isn’t Lozells road in Lozells
@@fedup6774 it is yes
Up de road
When in riot mode do not attack firefighters.
It does'nt make any sense when that happens.🙁
@@swizerland100 Reflecting on this and i think it's because of testosterone mixed with adrenaline mixed with group think = certain things needs to be ingrained into the fabric of one's being so that when in a heightened emotional state and with a crowd of people you just don't 'go there'
i was at the rear of heathfield road two days before it happened. I was waiting for some car parts for a mg. so I went for a walk it been a few years I had been that way as I had left birmingham a long time before. as I walked over their was a chap making a steel drum and we got chatting. at that about eight black youths approached us and the a was talking to told them to get me drink as I had come a long way. which they did and we chatted they were renovating the houses in heathfield road and doing a nice job. I left and went up heathfield road to villa cross and turned down lozzels road toward sixways. when I passed the of top anglsey street I was appalled to see piles of tyres and rubbish as high as the houses it used to a vauxhall garage and rats running all over it. the people should never had to live like that. it was a disgrace. please remember the lads I spoke to were very kind and obliging.
Powerful
Nothing has changed.
I agree
Yes I remember
You police beat me up
Why I don't know
went to handsworth tec in those times, it was a hard time for all but so scary
Never knew black England was having any issues at all like this.the English people I know had a gleaming opinion about England.
@sanjay j Really so man like Matthew Bolton from Birmingham was backward and Primitive don't think so, jog on dude
@sanjay j says sanjay
@@scitec6166 this part of Birmingham has very Masonic background
@@BLUEMONDAY99 Nothing has changed society is still the same today .
That Lee Scott/ sonnyjim sample @3:08 is nice with it
This was after i was born (well only few months old), but saw the ones happed 20 years later, also I didn’t know there was a cinema in this area lol
My parents told me how hard it was for Caribbean people to get jobs back then because of racism. Especially in the 60s, remember their wasn't a vote for Caribbean or asian people to come to the uk. It was a big change for English originals, feared of their jobs and things
I grew up not far from handsworth,and would have been about 10 or 11 years old and remember it! There wasn't half a lot of good tv's and stereos knocking around after it!😆
If you were there, you will know the truth and it aint anything thats reported, just check who the guys were that died, might point you in right direction !
💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
I'm West Bromwich, and my friends are Brummie, were late 40's
Its funny to see the terms they used for African Caribbean people on the news back then like Blacks and coloured people
It's stupid
Darky was the closet talk at the time
No excuse for destructive behaviour n ting
I hear you, but enough is enough....absolute frustration that goes deeper than the Lozells road. We must learn. 2023 and Birmingham council is Bankrupt kids are killing kids and people are finished on booze and drugs........Who ever manages the financial wallet and political agenda has to answer! cold hearts and dam greed. Bob Marley's lyrics.....as a mantra x
You saying won't stop it. Implementing the right things will
There you go a government leaders right in the thick of it seeing it at first hand and still to this day nothing done
Roy put the fires out as he spoke
Nearly 40 years ago an nothing aint changed. The government are still on the fuckri. The struggle continues.2023.💯
They should not have rioted in their own community, the heavy handed tactics of the racist west midlands police are to blame for this riot.
@sarah jones the black ppl must be racist against Asians then, because most moved on and its majority asian now eh?
@sarah jones 'blacks are not a big population in Birmingham' - Hold on, I swear Birmingham has the second largest black community in the UK after London? Even if there are more whites and Asians, in comparison to most other parts of the UK there is still a significantly large black population in Birmingham too.
Fuck racism just get up go out and work motherfuckers! Feed your kids and your family don't expect no one to do it for u
@@hassankhan155 You would have been out beheading people I don't know what your on about, if I was attacked every time I left the house and had my job taken because of say I was mixed in my coloration, You better believe I would boil up like a kettle then explode!
The police are not racist, criminals are criminals
These videos are very very moving, I was born 1987 so just to see and understand the context my mum & dad was living in at this time, understanding the how black , Asian & white people where living in at the time, I believe it’s around these times gangs started to form, and hench why now in 2021 we have a gang culture of young men especially blacks & Asians where selling drugs and being against the system. Structurally & institutional racism has been highlighted a lot especially last year, but the government has a lot to be accountable for, As money, investments and resources was not pushed into the black community, and so black people sold drugs to make money.
Indeed! It's a sad sad cycle, if only people just let people be from the start. Wouldn't be like this at all. It's a real shame🙆🏽♀️
@@Laura-sg6ss it’s hard to let people be, when systems of structure are in place, things like race & class naturally means people start at the bottom and find it hard to progress, society has its own customs and rules.
BS........
Your way of saying they were only drug dealers without mentioning that black people were refused jobs because of racism.......
Was anyone convicted for the deaths of the two Asian men? I remember the incident being reported at the time, but haven't heard or seen anything about it since.
You know where this was leading to the gangs starting out you know which ones I'm on about
The klan gangs pigs you must mean. The seeds you sow that you shall reap your mama should have taught you. Another way to look at it is if you swing the pendulum out it will swing back at your ignoramus arse 😉
My friend was police officer at time in handsworth
@7:36 the late Mgr Fallon
how dare he accuse people of being drunk, there is good reason for the riot and uk is moving towards new ones.
Black an White Cafe "Bristol Posse "we were the first!
unemployed? smash the place up!!
Along with a lack of opportunities (e.g. having several job applications rejected just because of the colour of your skin), racist policing and police brutality. Put all these ingredients together in the same area and before you know it there will be a general feeling hopelessness, anger and resentment and then it's only a matter of time before people say enough is enough. You have to remember that people don't just start rioting for the sake of it. Rioting is the voice of the voiceless and it's their way of hopefully bringing about change.
@@palsos123 did someone report my reply....
@@jimmyzoom1143 I don't know, I was just replying/extending on what you said
@@palsos123 i think your making up excuses for these people. they seem to forget where they live. free NHS, free accommodation and benefit money.
truth is, they've been told they're victims of racism . and then everything falls to shit after. there are many other similar examples of this occurring.
when the feminists told women they were victims of male oppression, when people are told they're now on the MINIMUM wage. the attitude of those people turns sour and they feel resentful and rebellious. but theres something about these sorts of people in the video, no matter which country they go to, they never really do well for themselves. not like indian, chinese people for example.
Jimmy Zoom you sound so ignorant
You fight fire with fire
I witnessed everything thing that day I was a 10 at the time
You threw two rocks as well didn't you? 😁
Nicest Handsworth residence
Biased reporting or what????
Did you expect them to take the side of the criminals
stoned on two occasions....?
People blaming race, but it wasn’t just the black community, the wood and riots in Coventry 1992
Good Ole ' Dougie... Go talk to the White man
Racist
Ouch..sounds like a vendetta
Hurd is 93 now and enjoying his fat cat MPs pension while people in Handsworth still struggle....
Was that Tom Ross between 3:10 - 4:10 ?
No, sounded and looked like Tony Butler
I don't care about colour... Your either good or bad and all I saw here was bad, absolutely no need to destroy people's business.... Pity you can't kick off over dole sanctions, bedroom tax, lockdowns.... Need I go on.
I do love Handsworth today, love the different culture, the foods and being able to score whatever drugs I need 😂😂
Boyos Brickin the feds
Area was 2nd generation Irish and Jamaican. WOW. How that improved the area!!!!!! Is America improving it's area toooo????
Dickhead
....Probably 3rd or 4th generation
@@seanmurray1734 Im on about inthe 80'2 you cockhead
Demps 69 I know. I meant you’re probably a 3rd or 4th generation dickhead.
Pakistanis and Bangladeshi saved this shithole
This will come again but worse
All that violence it is UNACCEPTABLE.
🤔
The ting is new now it’s from the east
Labor again.
Don't wait to be employed , become self employed, create ur own business!
Diversity gives us strength 😅😅
Should’ve thought about that before you began your empire!
@@blackcats3951 Exactly! 400 years of colonial rule pillaging and stealing what we had has probably messed up my country for good, and all they left us is one lousy high school and a hospital named royal victoria, which thankfully has been renamed after one of our forefathers.