Birmingham Airport - New Terminal & Pier 04/04/1984 Part 1 / 2

The start of the "modern era" began at Birmingham Airport - on Wednesday 4 April 1984 the "new" terminal site opened for business - over the previous night a major opeation had taken place to relocate all the airlines, their aircraft and equipment from the Elmdon site to the new facility on the eastern side of the airfield.

By the mid 1970's Birmingham Airport was handling over a million passengers and the existing terminal on the Elmdon site was already bursting at the seems. A long planning and consultation exercise thus began to build a completely new terminal on a site on the eastern side of the airfield adjacent to the main Birmingham to London railway line and the recently completed National Exhibition Centre - NEC.

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[jamwithmates123]

It's interesting to see the 'modern' style at the time, now it seems quite old and dated. The architects really based the design on 'the 1980s' and didn't think ahead, whereas other airports that were developed at the time such as Stanstead really thought ahead and now it still looks extremely modern.

[Goair18]

OMG what a gem this is, how the airport has changed once again!! Thanks for the upload!!