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Uploaded by on Mar 29, 2007

Time lapse type video of the construction of Beetham Tower, Birmingham,UK.

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  • Thats Beetham Tower which is occupied by Raddisson Sas Hotel.I use to be a conceirge there years ago.Nice building but shit company to work for.

  • Heh Heh!! Ok Ok Manchester is second (to Birmingham) and always will be. Getting back to my video of the tower. Don't you think it's quite good? All done from still shots you know. It's been nice chatting with you but I'm afraid we're all busy down here in Birmingham (So good they named it twice) (Brum). No time to keep chatting on here so I'll thank you for commenting on my video and wish you all up there in Manchester a very good day. P.S Is it raining again?

  • Mr Prescott, in a closing speech, praised Manchester as a "leading European city" before saying: "We have had fantastic co-operation here in Manchester - our second city, I am prepared to concede."

    We have the most international consuls outside of London, we have produced more musically and culturally, have the biggest china town in the UK, the imperial war museam chose it's northern base here and the Bank of New York chose it's UK base to be here....you can not compete I DEMAND you concede.

  • It seems that you have a 'bee in your bonnet' about this wheras I have never had to give it much thought as it is generally accepted by everyone outside Manchester that Birmingham is and has long been the second city. According to The EU it is the first city in size in the UK as London (outside the square mile) has never been incorporated as a city. (The only 'City of London' is the square mile'). Manchester is having to make this claim year after year, doesn't that tell you something?

  • Hi. I haven't removed anything - you made 2 previous (3 now) comments which I have answered. They are all still on my screen. (Maybe Youtube are removing them?? I have just googled Man, second city? and I have copied this:Birmingham has generally been regarded as the second city of the United Kingdom since around the time of World War I,[1] though some polls and media references have quoted Manchester as the second city (and also as the third city). That is a direct copy from the site you quote.

  • @sup3rm1k3 Why are a my comments about Birmingham being a third rate city being removed....the truth hurts...

    I suggest you google 'Manchester second city'

  • Still clutching at straws I see. I could match any of those things eg. Birmingham, home to the Conservative party conference. Eurovision song contest, G8 summit 1998 (First g8, used to be G7) home to the worlds longest running soap, The Archers. I could go on. But I won't. Just one last thing. Birmingham's twin cities are Chicago (second city of U.S)., Frankfurt, Barcelona, etc. LA looked for a UK city to 'associate' with, London said No, Birmingham with Chicago, so chose |Manchester 3rd again

  • Thats just down to how the boundaries are made up in Manchester, for some reason ours does not include the likes of Salford/Stockports etc if it did we'd be over 2m..... I do prefer to look on the following...

    2 world class stadia, tallest buliding outside london, home of the labour part conference, the commonwealth games, the nations best loved soap, BBC moving 50% of its staff here, google choosing to place its first regional uk office here, music...etc etc I could go on??

  • Try? I didn't need to try. It's just a video of a building. It's not the highest building in Birmingham. The BT Tower in Birmingham is 100 feet taller than this building. Incidentally, how can a city of 450,000 population (Manchester) even be compared to a city of over 1.2 million people (Birmingham)? There are more people in one half of Birmingham than in the whole of Manchester. There are more people in Birmingham than in Liverpool and Manchester combined. So dream on Manchester not even third

  • shame its smaller than the one in our second city-Manchester....nice try though!

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