This is a fascinating look at life, and traffic, on the streets of Birmingham over 100 years ago. Taken from our documentary 'Birmingham, The Way We Were'
Look at the mixture of traffic. Horse and cart, bicycle, car, hand-drawn cart, and so on. What a wonderful experience it must have been for a country dweller to visit a city back then!
@alemcodon I was marvelling at how, even though I couldn't directly recognise much of it (think I saw some of corporation st, and victoria square?), it still FELT the same...
stange to think almost everyone in that video will be dead
Look at the mixture of traffic. Horse and cart, bicycle, car, hand-drawn cart, and so on. What a wonderful experience it must have been for a country dweller to visit a city back then!
remarkable quality bfor the year
Everyone is so slim!
All the food was fresh then , there were no convenience foods with additives
@alemcodon I was marvelling at how, even though I couldn't directly recognise much of it (think I saw some of corporation st, and victoria square?), it still FELT the same...
@mongisme14 My nan's 92... she may be in there. As a baby, if so...!
Wow! A policeman!!
@mongisme14 not almost everyone, EVERYONE.
funny i was looking at these vids thinkin the same thing, shows how interesting our lives are...