A drive around central Birmingham early 1950s

A drive around town early 1950s, Broad Street, Easy Row, Victoria Square, New Street, Corporation Street, Bull Street, Colmore .

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Education

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• birmingham
• 1950s
• centre
• driving
• drive
• central

[gerryracer]

Thank you for taking me back to when I was proud to say this is my city. Take a look at it now.............

[idowish12]

@gerryracer Sorry you feel that way, I'm still proud to say this is my city.

Birmingham has never looked better than it does now.

[paulph12002]

Great clip, but the creepy music doesn't fit at all.

[Stylus1997]

It's really weird to see the place I grew up in look like this; I was born in the 80s. This is beautiful. Really good to see what it looked like before the introduction of all the ugly post-war Brutalist architecture that has finally been demolished recently.

[27john1]

@MrMabloz ......Very eloquent

[27john1]

Nice one........ took me back a few years

[skydiver963]

What a find! Marvellous.Who are the people in the Standard Tourer? And what`s that music?

[notional67]

Extraordinary - grimy yes, but a real place with character. I assumed that most of this was destroyed in the war, but in fact it was the planners and developers who did for it. What a shame. Perhaps we can restore a bit of a sense of place and humanity...

[MrElliotpaige]

Proud Brummie, still proud of my city, and proud of its multi cultural heritage.

Some of these comments sadden me deeply. As for the video itself its wonderful!, didnt Big Brum look filthy dirty back then?

[Pulpedtoafiction31]

Wow theres alot of anger in these posts.Anyway I like the video and enjoyed it very much cheers.

[seanywarnywoo]

The song is The Freeze - Lene Lovich

[MrMabloz]

@fukwatshit AND YOUR GRANDFATHER IS A TWAT JST LIKE THE REST IF SO! THESE IMMIGRANTS HAVE BEEN FUKED UP THE ARSE BY THE BRITISH 4 HUNDREDS OF YRS, FRM TAKING THERE RICHES THERES COUNTRY HAVE N BUILDING YOURS! SO DNT CRY NW ENGLAND IS WHERE THERE GO 2 LIVE.. INFACT THIS HOME..THERE PART OF MAKING IT..

[MrDaiseymay]

@HeartOfTheBeat Problem is--we can't pick and mix the good from the bad. Depending on your circumstances, life was tougher then, but so were we, could we cope with all those restrictions and post war shortages ?-- I doubt it--I lived through it---just.