What a fantastic Video of Birmingham, it makes me proud to be a Brummie to see how beautiful the Second Biggest City in Great Britain has become and how it is about to turn out in the near future. I have always believed in Birmingham and loved living in Birmingham for 65 years seeing the City modernize itself from a bombed out wreck with loads of slums in the early 1960's to the modern beautiful City it is now and how it will be in the future, must thank you for this positive visitor guide to Birmingham.
Still a low rise city,needs many more tall buildings skyscrapers like the one that's going to be built 61 floors and more,let Birmingham shine brighter than other cities.
Video never showed the sky line of Birmingham from a distance, believe me from a Brummie, Birmingham's not a low rise City there are plenty oh high rise offices in the City Center
Birmingham must be the only city in Europe (maybe the world) where there is so little green space in the city centre that office workers picnic in a GRAVEYARD on hot sunny days (see 0.43). Birmingham has a huge number of public parks, but all in the suburbs. The new Eastside city park is too far out from the centre for office-workers to get to in their lunch-hour. The next time a major block of the city becomes vacant the council should snap it up for a proper city-centre green-space. That will make the centre a better place to work and push up property values, so everyone would win, even the fat-cat developers.
again no it is not, Hong Kong, London, New York, Paris, Manchester, Liverpool, Berlin and many other Cities in the world do not have parks in the City centre, due to cities needing commercial buildings and shops Parks were either built in the suburbs or on the extreme edge of a City centre.
@@peterwilliamallen1063 - Don’t be silly, London has loads of parks and so does New York. Cant comment on Hong Kong or Paris as I’ve never been, Manchester however is very poor for central green space (I know because I live there) that is changing slightly though as the construction of a new city centre park started a few months back.
@@rufdymond If you read what the problem was about properly in this discussion, it was not that these Cities do NOT have parks, it was that I was explaining to John Dell that Birmingham is not the only city that does not have parks in it's City Business District, and like Birmingham, these Cities have parks but they are in the outer lying areas, ie London for example has parks but they are in the outer lying Boroughs not the Business section of the City of London, Places like Green Park, Regents Park and Hyde Park are not in the Business / shopping area of London. The whole thing was that John Dell who i answered to cant understand why there are no recreation parks in the shopping / Office area of Birmingham, so sorry you misread what I was on about, I know these Cities have parks.
Very true, badly needs some green areas in the centre controlled by the council, rather than at the whim of the Anglican church. The John Lewis / old Rackhams block would be ideal.
Birmingham is beautiful, but it needs more tall skyscrapers, also Birmingham has problems with littering, Crime and more, maybe you should build more parks, Create more jobs that's about cleaning and more, besides all that, Birmingham is a fantastic city and I am excited to come back soon, From Wolverhampton!
Birmingham has loads of parks, if you watched the video we are the top greenest City in Great Britain I believe it stated 15.3% of the size of the city. the 3 top parks are The Lickey Hills country park in Rednal and Sutton Park granted to what was then a Royal Town under charter from Henry the 8th which are huge natural parks and Cannon hill Park plus loads of smaller parks and green areas, so no we have enough beautiful parks.
@@peterwilliamallen1063 But none in the city centre. People picnic in St Philips GRAVEYARD for gawdsake! Cannon Hill and the "new" Eastside park are too far out for office works to get to in their lunch-hour. Give Birmingham a decent city-centre park; the equivalent of Hyde Park, the Tuileries, or Tivoli Gardens. A proper city-centre park would take some city-centre land out of use, pushing up the price and desirability of the rest, making even the fat-cat property developers happy.
@@johndell3642 Hyde park is not in the centre of London to start with and no where near any offices in the City of London and East side park is being dug up for HS2 construction. Birmingham has never had a city park all the parks being in the outskirts on land that used to adjoin old houses that the City Council took over.
@@peterwilliamallen1063 Old Square used to be much much bigger - The fashionable end of Birmingham. It had a park in the middle. When Sam Johnson (and later Washington Irving) were living there they would have looked out over lawns and trees. Vauxhall Gardens at Duddeston was one of the first pleasure gardens open to the public anywhere in Europe. The latest plans for the new Curzon Street Station show the existing bits of Eastside park being untouched, something that those who will live and work in Eastside( If the redevelopment takes off) will no doubt value. Why shouldn't office-workers and shoppers in Brum not have a bit of greenery to relax in? Why only a Graveyard? Would you deny them that if a bit of land came up that was suitable? The Birmingham Civic Scheme of the 1930s, of which only Baskerville House and the Hall of Memory were built, would have given Brum a big area of civic gardens close to the city centre, a true opportunity lost.
@@johndell3642 I am well aware of Birmingham's History, being a Brummie of 66 years and interested in its History, firstly the last time Old Square had any greenery was around 1732 coming into the 1800's it was gradually built on until how it is today totally built up and a traffic island of which the old Lewis's department store is the oldest original surviving building left. this end of what is now Corporation Street has never been a desirable area being the end of the slums which were cleared away by Joseph Chamberlin in 1878 who became Mayor of Birmingham in 1873 to make way for the construction of what is now Corporation Street, the desirable side of Birmingham City centre was from Colmore Row to what is now the Jewellery Quarter, Vauxhall gardens were never pleasure park in Birmingham, that was Vauxhall gardens in London, the one in Birmingham is a part of Duddeston / Duddeston Mill and was just a park for walking in, they did have fun fairs and small Markets and was renamed after the London borough of Duddeston, later arms houses were built there for the Militia a form of para military armed Police force in the 1800's. As far as east side I think you need to look again as the HS2 station will stretch from Moor Street Queensway with its main entrance along side Moor Street Station right past the old Curzon Street station to the Inner Ring Road where the trains will leave on a Viaduct with the one side buttering up to the New Street Railway line viaduct and the other side facing millennium point with a spur of the West Midlands Metro coming down lower Bull Street over or under Moor Street Queensway, running through what is now East Side Park to alongside the new Curzon Street Station then running of to Digbeth, what is East Park was a temporary park to improve a derelict area until this side was finally developed with HS2, may be when this is finished a small park may be reinstated. The Grave Yard has been there for around 300 years at least and the Centre of Birmingham has always been a commercial Hub, if you go to London, places like Hyde park, Regents park and Green Park are not in the business section of London, in the Business section of London all there is are Offices and the only areas for recreation are the squares like Russel Square used for sitting in. Birmingham's magnificent parks are all in the suburbs so that its citizens could go and sit at weekends and in the evenings, the 3 biggest are The Lickey Hills, Sutton park and Cannon Hill Park and load of others varying in size dotted around the City as Birmingham was all ways an Industrial City.
We need more skyscrapers and knock down the old factories, workhouses, etc and build great stuff in the space. Also the city needs a big business center, more shops and restaurants. Just do anything to improve it
Birmingham has loads of skyscrapers, plus most of the old factories are in use for industry or changed to apartments like America. There are plenty of shops and restaurants in the City plus OK for Business, try visiting Birmingham first.
What’s happening to a John Lewis? They are closing down, devastating for the station. Lots of new buildings being built, most of which will remain empty along with all the empties already there. What about all the poverty stricken shit-hole areas? A good and enthusiastic video, it’s easy to gloss over.
great video not showing the problem to come with the clear air zone no body going there unless you have a good job or benefits with exceptions ..surrounding towns will prosper
Holy Father, Britain has a beautiful heart, its name is Birmingham 💚
What a fantastic Video of Birmingham, it makes me proud to be a Brummie to see how beautiful the Second Biggest City in Great Britain has become and how it is about to turn out in the near future. I have always believed in Birmingham and loved living in Birmingham for 65 years seeing the City modernize itself from a bombed out wreck with loads of slums in the early 1960's to the modern beautiful City it is now and how it will be in the future, must thank you for this positive visitor guide to Birmingham.
Still a low rise city,needs many more tall buildings skyscrapers like the one that's going to be built 61 floors and more,let Birmingham shine brighter than other cities.
Video never showed the sky line of Birmingham from a distance, believe me from a Brummie, Birmingham's not a low rise City there are plenty oh high rise offices in the City Center
fantastic video, brilliantly edited
Thank you very much!
Good video I live in brum it is booming in city centre
Thanks!
Bella!!!!
Birmingham must be the only city in Europe (maybe the world) where there is so little green space in the city centre that office workers picnic in a GRAVEYARD on hot sunny days (see 0.43). Birmingham has a huge number of public parks, but all in the suburbs. The new Eastside city park is too far out from the centre for office-workers to get to in their lunch-hour. The next time a major block of the city becomes vacant the council should snap it up for a proper city-centre green-space. That will make the centre a better place to work and push up property values, so everyone would win, even the fat-cat developers.
again no it is not, Hong Kong, London, New York, Paris, Manchester, Liverpool, Berlin and many other Cities in the world do not have parks in the City centre, due to cities needing commercial buildings and shops Parks were either built in the suburbs or on the extreme edge of a City centre.
@@peterwilliamallen1063 - Don’t be silly, London has loads of parks and so does New York. Cant comment on Hong Kong or Paris as I’ve never been, Manchester however is very poor for central green space (I know because I live there) that is changing slightly though as the construction of a new city centre park started a few months back.
@@rufdymond If you read what the problem was about properly in this discussion, it was not that these Cities do NOT have parks, it was that I was explaining to John Dell that Birmingham is not the only city that does not have parks in it's City Business District, and like Birmingham, these Cities have parks but they are in the outer lying areas, ie London for example has parks but they are in the outer lying Boroughs not the Business section of the City of London, Places like Green Park, Regents Park and Hyde Park are not in the Business / shopping area of London. The whole thing was that John Dell who i answered to cant understand why there are no recreation parks in the shopping / Office area of Birmingham, so sorry you misread what I was on about, I know these Cities have parks.
Very true, badly needs some green areas in the centre controlled by the council, rather than at the whim of the Anglican church. The John Lewis / old Rackhams block would be ideal.
Birmingham is beautiful, but it needs more tall skyscrapers, also Birmingham has problems with littering, Crime and more, maybe you should build more parks, Create more jobs that's about cleaning and more, besides all that, Birmingham is a fantastic city and I am excited to come back soon, From Wolverhampton!
Birmingham has loads of parks, if you watched the video we are the top greenest City in Great Britain I believe it stated 15.3% of the size of the city. the 3 top parks are The Lickey Hills country park in Rednal and Sutton Park granted to what was then a Royal Town under charter from Henry the 8th which are huge natural parks and Cannon hill Park plus loads of smaller parks and green areas, so no we have enough beautiful parks.
@@peterwilliamallen1063 But none in the city centre. People picnic in St Philips GRAVEYARD for gawdsake! Cannon Hill and the "new" Eastside park are too far out for office works to get to in their lunch-hour. Give Birmingham a decent city-centre park; the equivalent of Hyde Park, the Tuileries, or Tivoli Gardens. A proper city-centre park would take some city-centre land out of use, pushing up the price and desirability of the rest, making even the fat-cat property developers happy.
@@johndell3642 Hyde park is not in the centre of London to start with and no where near any offices in the City of London and East side park is being dug up for HS2 construction. Birmingham has never had a city park all the parks being in the outskirts on land that used to adjoin old houses that the City Council took over.
@@peterwilliamallen1063 Old Square used to be much much bigger - The fashionable end of Birmingham. It had a park in the middle. When Sam Johnson (and later Washington Irving) were living there they would have looked out over lawns and trees. Vauxhall Gardens at Duddeston was one of the first pleasure gardens open to the public anywhere in Europe. The latest plans for the new Curzon Street Station show the existing bits of Eastside park being untouched, something that those who will live and work in Eastside( If the redevelopment takes off) will no doubt value. Why shouldn't office-workers and shoppers in Brum not have a bit of greenery to relax in? Why only a Graveyard? Would you deny them that if a bit of land came up that was suitable? The Birmingham Civic Scheme of the 1930s, of which only Baskerville House and the Hall of Memory were built, would have given Brum a big area of civic gardens close to the city centre, a true opportunity lost.
@@johndell3642 I am well aware of Birmingham's History, being a Brummie of 66 years and interested in its History, firstly the last time Old Square had any greenery was around 1732 coming into the 1800's it was gradually built on until how it is today totally built up and a traffic island of which the old Lewis's department store is the oldest original surviving building left. this end of what is now Corporation Street has never been a desirable area being the end of the slums which were cleared away by Joseph Chamberlin in 1878 who became Mayor of Birmingham in 1873 to make way for the construction of what is now Corporation Street, the desirable side of Birmingham City centre was from Colmore Row to what is now the Jewellery Quarter, Vauxhall gardens were never pleasure park in Birmingham, that was Vauxhall gardens in London, the one in Birmingham is a part of Duddeston / Duddeston Mill and was just a park for walking in, they did have fun fairs and small Markets and was renamed after the London borough of Duddeston, later arms houses were built there for the Militia a form of para military armed Police force in the 1800's. As far as east side I think you need to look again as the HS2 station will stretch from Moor Street Queensway with its main entrance along side Moor Street Station right past the old Curzon Street station to the Inner Ring Road where the trains will leave on a Viaduct with the one side buttering up to the New Street Railway line viaduct and the other side facing millennium point with a spur of the West Midlands Metro coming down lower Bull Street over or under Moor Street Queensway, running through what is now East Side Park to alongside the new Curzon Street Station then running of to Digbeth, what is East Park was a temporary park to improve a derelict area until this side was finally developed with HS2, may be when this is finished a small park may be reinstated. The Grave Yard has been there for around 300 years at least and the Centre of Birmingham has always been a commercial Hub, if you go to London, places like Hyde park, Regents park and Green Park are not in the business section of London, in the Business section of London all there is are Offices and the only areas for recreation are the squares like Russel Square used for sitting in. Birmingham's magnificent parks are all in the suburbs so that its citizens could go and sit at weekends and in the evenings, the 3 biggest are The Lickey Hills, Sutton park and Cannon Hill Park and load of others varying in size dotted around the City as Birmingham was all ways an Industrial City.
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We need more skyscrapers and knock down the old factories, workhouses, etc and build great stuff in the space. Also the city needs a big business center, more shops and restaurants. Just do anything to improve it
Birmingham has loads of skyscrapers, plus most of the old factories are in use for industry or changed to apartments like America. There are plenty of shops and restaurants in the City plus OK for Business, try visiting Birmingham first.
Why do you need more skyscrapers? A lot of people work from home now.
There is a brilliant place next to the bullring for a nightclub.🎐
Birmingham is a great city but it does have a litter problem. Needs to get the basics right.
If you want a litter problem visit Milan.
That's pretty much every city mate.
What’s happening to a John Lewis? They are closing down, devastating for the station. Lots of new buildings being built, most of which will remain empty along with all the empties already there. What about all the poverty stricken shit-hole areas? A good and enthusiastic video, it’s easy to gloss over.
great video not showing the problem to come with the clear air zone no body going there unless you have a good job or benefits with exceptions ..surrounding towns will prosper