Birmingham City Centre in 1987

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West Midlands, England. It is the second-largest city, urban area and metropolitan area in England and the United Kingdom city area, 2.9 million inhabitants within the urban area and 3.6 million inhabitants within the metropolitan area.[6] The city proper is the most populated English local government district.[7] Birmingham is commonly referred to as the "second city of the United Kingdom.
Located in the West Midlands county and region in England, approximately 100 miles (160 km) from Central London, Birmingham, as one of the United Kingdom's major cities, is considered to be the social, cultural, financial, and commercial centre of the Midlands. Distinctively, Birmingham only has small rivers flowing through it, mainly the River Tame and its tributaries River Rea and River Cole - one of the closest main rivers is the Severn, approximately 20 miles (32 km) west of the city centre.
1987
January: The foundation stone to the International Convention Centre is laid, signalling the start of construction.
1 April: The ownership of Birmingham Airport is transferred to Birmingham International Airport plc.
July: The city council invites developers to draw up a masterplan for 26 acres (110,000 m2) of land alongside canals, adjacent to the International Convention Centre.
5 October: A rebuilt Snow Hill station is opened to the public.
"The People's Plan", a document containing designs and plans for the redevelopment of the Bull Ring, is published and issued by London and Edinburgh Trust but the plans are greeted with public objection.
1988
The Birmingham Institute of Art and Design is formed following the Faculty of Art and Design at Birmingham Polytechnic absorbing Bournville College of Art.
1989
September: The Brindleyplace development alongside the ICC and Broad Street is granted planning permission.
October: The topping out ceremony of the railway tunnel for the future site of the National Indoor Arena is conducted by the council.
The Birmingham School of Music is renamed the Birmingham Conservatoire.
National Exhibition Centre expanded.
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@midgecooper1772 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for this, it stirred up so many memories. Birmingham wasn't perfect back then but now it's a hostile, overcrowded mess.

@Iktbrs 7 ай бұрын

You’re welcome 🌷

@totoroid 5 ай бұрын

Your grandchildren will be a different race. Hope that helps you sleep at night

@topquark6919 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting. That brings back some lovely memories of 1987. I'd go back in a heartbeat!

@Iktbrs Жыл бұрын

Thanks 😊

@pixie77531 Жыл бұрын

notice how the streets look so clean but now there is literally litter on the floor everywhere you go

@Iktbrs Жыл бұрын

Yes 🙌 but public not care anymore back 1980 1995 will clean 🧼 if you remember that public toilets everywhere and know nothing thanks for your support local communities

@markknight1011 10 ай бұрын

But still had potholes

@Iktbrs 10 ай бұрын

Thanks 😊

@angelacooper2661 8 ай бұрын

I was a seventeen year old YTS trainee at the time and remember it very well. The cream and blue buses (West Midland) are distinctive!

@Iktbrs 8 ай бұрын

Thanks 🌺

@orangebox100 6 ай бұрын

I totally agree, i was born in Birmingham and lived in alum rock and stechford, yes it wasn’t perfect but i was always proud of brum and real brummis who would do anything for you and give you the shirt off there backs, now it’s just a over crowded dump that’s lost its roots

@Iktbrs 6 ай бұрын

Thanks 🌷

@stevieb9490 4 ай бұрын

Super diversity

@alyb731 2 жыл бұрын

I feel quite sad watching it, think I preferred it then to what it is now. Everything looked cleaner then.

@Iktbrs 2 жыл бұрын

Yes before drive every ways in town not any more

@tazmaniakhan1989 2 жыл бұрын

Yes very much so i liked it then, town was town now you can't make head's or tales of the city centre (rubbish).

@Iktbrs 2 жыл бұрын

@@tazmaniakhan1989 thanks 🙏

@pixie77531 Жыл бұрын

ikr

@waynegoodman3345 11 ай бұрын

Seems that way too many takeaways now and people that don't give a damn and think it's up to someone else to clean up after them.

@beastman.330 Жыл бұрын

I used go around here on my RALEIGH GRIFFTER. Seems like it was yesterday.

@Iktbrs Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

@thomastimjensen 18 күн бұрын

Thank you for sharing this enjoyable video! I was a resident student at Woodbrooke College at 1046 Bristol Road in Selly Oak 1986/1987 - it was a great time. Selly Oak and Bournville were wonderful places. Since then most of the college life in Selly Oak has closed down.

@Iktbrs 18 күн бұрын

Thanks 💐you’re welcome 🙏

@mrglide7078 8 сағат бұрын

Nope. There is more student activity in Selly Oak than ever before. Woodbrooke, Fircroft and the Christian colleges are all still there. The only main diff is that Bourneville college has moved down to Longbridge

@Iktbrs 7 сағат бұрын

@@mrglide7078 thanks 🙏

@noelreilly8860 5 ай бұрын

PLEASE STOP. My beloved BRUM has gone. Proper tears

@Iktbrs 5 ай бұрын

Thanks 💐

@drkintobor2597 6 ай бұрын

My favourite part of Birmingham is Title, Subtitle

@Iktbrs 6 ай бұрын

Thanks 🌷

@davem9208 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for this video, as it brings back memories. At around 3.45, just going onto the Bristol Rd, you can see the old ABC cinema, opposite which is a white tower block. That was Haddon Tower. My late grand parents (mothers side) lived in that block, flat 81 on the 13th floor, the latter of who passed away a year before this film was taken. The tower block is now long gone, being replaced by lower level apartments. I still drive past the twice a week to visit my mother in Northfield.

@Iktbrs 8 ай бұрын

You’re welcome 💐

@buskingkarma2503 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for this,it's filled me with nostalgia,happy memories of a better time,in the Birmingham I grew up in! I left over 30 years ago,and wouldn't live there again,,unless time travel was possible! Lol ❤

@Iktbrs 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for informing. I’m leaving in brume for 44 years now it’s very nice to hard you on channel thank

@TheWhitehawker 2 ай бұрын

I left Birmingham over 30 years ago and have fond memories but do not wish to return today, perhaps if time travel was possible.

@gabriellaj.o.6180 5 ай бұрын

Looks clean and civilised. No knife crime. Sad what we have lost as a society and countrry. Uk 2023 is pants.

@Iktbrs 5 ай бұрын

Thanks 🙏 these days no way safe everywhere gun and knife best to look after yourself too be safe any where

@gabriellaj.o.6180 5 ай бұрын

Agree with you.

@Iktbrs 5 ай бұрын

@@gabriellaj.o.6180 thanks 🌷

@Jonsson474 4 ай бұрын

I believe it was anything but safe and clean compared to now.

@Iktbrs 4 ай бұрын

@@Jonsson474 thanks 🙏 it’s was more safe than

@tutornick 14 күн бұрын

Thanks for posting. The ring roads haven't changed much. I worked on the city centre pedestrianisation scheme back in 91/92 and remember the buses in New Street. Much better nowadays of course. Would have been good to see Villa Park.

@Iktbrs 14 күн бұрын

Thanks 🙏 buses and cars go anywhere in town before and no more cars only taxis and buses only but more safe for pedestrians

@mrglide7078 8 сағат бұрын

The ring roads have changed considerably. Observe Masshouse Circus at the beginning. All gone. Modernised. Traffic and elevated roads given way to pedestrians and better environment for all. Active crossings replacing dark menacing subways.

@bullyinspace Жыл бұрын

Birmingham for me 1978/1998 was the best

@Iktbrs Жыл бұрын

Yes 👍 that’s you go anywhere in city centre now days can’t go anywhere accept walking 🚶‍♀️ thanks 🙏

@user-gv7xw4pk7m 5 ай бұрын

Birmingham was a great place back then.. happy memories

@Iktbrs 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for your great place Birmingham City memories

@sooty307 8 ай бұрын

Birmingham was far from perfect but I’d gladly swop we have now for back then.

@Iktbrs 8 ай бұрын

Thanks 🙏

@mrglide7078 8 сағат бұрын

No thanks. I wouldn't. You can keep your 1987 Brum

@abc33944 5 ай бұрын

the video covered most of my route today,, very interesting changes ... moreover i came here for the old cars ..thanks!

@Iktbrs 5 ай бұрын

You’re welcome 💐

@gabriellaj.o.6180 Ай бұрын

We were more civilised then. At least there were shops. Now look at our high streets up and down the country. Worrying times. I prefer the Birmingham and UK of the 80's but then I'm middle age now and was young then. It is a pity we can't fast rewind back to then. I do like You Tube for showing footage like this. The documentary's are fab as well.

@Iktbrs Ай бұрын

Thanks 🙏 in 1980 uk Birmingham 🇬🇧 was industrial city and taxing people businesses government don’t have any more stats own no runs factories 🏭 only run on taxes

@Heaven-dy9lj Ай бұрын

I agree. There was more cohesion in the city, than now, that's for sure. I grew up in Brum in the 70's and 80's. I left there 20 yrs ago, as it was getting worse. I return every now and again to visit family and it just gets worse, it's unrecognisable from 10 yrs ago! Find there's more cohesion and sense of belonging in Europe now, than my home town! What a state of affairs.

@Iktbrs Ай бұрын

@@Heaven-dy9lj thanks 🙏 that was very clean city no jobs I want for job interview at Land Rover 1990 10 jobs available apply 1500 people and before no skill demand works and now demand skills qualified work so hard get job thankful to chat with you 💐

@paulobrien4181 7 ай бұрын

Great city back then pubs everywhere you looked

@Iktbrs 7 ай бұрын

Thanks 🙏

@Iktbrs 7 ай бұрын

@@freepalestine6326 thanks 🙏 for your information

@deetee5863 7 ай бұрын

Great great video my friend

@Iktbrs 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the visit

@malachidrake7777 8 ай бұрын

Some good films in the pictures!!

@Iktbrs 8 ай бұрын

Thanks 🙏

@luishaywood970 Ай бұрын

Great Footage… 👍🏽👍🏽 Lots of memories … ❤

@Iktbrs Ай бұрын

Thanks 💐

@timvins Ай бұрын

Not a speed camera in sight yet everyone seems to getting around at a nice pace 🤔

@Iktbrs Ай бұрын

Thanks 🙏

@jamesaherne2779 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for this video, was living in smallheath in the eighties, 16 and working and drinking micky mouse,s great times, miss them days. Cheers 🍻

@Iktbrs 3 ай бұрын

Thanks 🙏

@poopinlumpy 2 жыл бұрын

Well, that filming and editing really helps to paint 1980s Birmingham in a better light!

@Iktbrs 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏

@markknight1011 10 ай бұрын

@@Iktbrsthink they’re being sarcastic

@Iktbrs 10 ай бұрын

@@markknight1011 you’re welcome 😇 thank

@Iktbrs 10 ай бұрын

Thanks 🙏

@kevkonk Жыл бұрын

Nice video…

@Iktbrs Жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏 for your comment on the video

@TheDronne 3 ай бұрын

Mum schooled for her MA at Edgbaston in 1989/1990 . Success!!

@Iktbrs 3 ай бұрын

Thanks 💐

@jeffbutler3054 7 ай бұрын

More people living here that have no love or respect for our city

@Iktbrs 7 ай бұрын

Thanks 💐

@LHRTW 7 ай бұрын

@@Iktbrsmost are east European Untermensh

@Iktbrs 7 ай бұрын

@@LHRTW thanks 🙏

@sanchoodell6789 Жыл бұрын

It still looks very modern. The cars, the road markings, the clothes, the people, stuff like that.

@Iktbrs Жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏

@Jonsson474 4 ай бұрын

It’s not THAT old kid.

@richardlister3906 Жыл бұрын

I've just revisited Birmingham after 20 years...I lived there as a child in 1970s until 87. ...oh my god....I'm sorry to say it has gone downhill . New Street, Corporation Street and Bull Street are a total dump!!! Brindley place area in Ok .but Broad Street...what a shithole. I'm so happy I don't live there anymore. The only positive are there are nice bars and restaurants around Colmore Row and around St Paul's Sq.

@Iktbrs Жыл бұрын

Now everything changed then 1987 every year change much different now you left thanks for your comment 🙏

@delorangeade 6 ай бұрын

2:30 on the left Norfolk House where I had my first job working for the West Midlands Examinations Board a year after this was filmed.

@Iktbrs 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for info 🙏

@dorinepowell6137 18 күн бұрын

Just unbelievable that this is a part of England.

@Iktbrs 18 күн бұрын

Thanks 💐

@mrglide7078 8 сағат бұрын

Why?

@davidbull7210 9 ай бұрын

Looked more like a real city before Bertie Bassett got planning permission.

@Iktbrs 9 ай бұрын

Thanks 🙏

@mrglide7078 8 сағат бұрын

Bertie Bassett? Nope sorry, never heard of that developer. What did he build - something made of liquorice?

@beebee7177 5 ай бұрын

Grew up in nechells. Happy memories.🙂

@Iktbrs 5 ай бұрын

Thanks 🙏

@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329 Ай бұрын

I was born 10 years later in 1997

@Iktbrs Ай бұрын

Thanks 🙏 then you don’t remember what before

@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329 Ай бұрын

@@Iktbrsmaybe mate but I do see the changes in transport as I was growing up here

@Iktbrs Ай бұрын

@@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329 thanks 🙏 me too I seen that’s changing city centre and around

@Iktbrs Ай бұрын

Thanks 🙏 I born 18 years before

@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329 20 күн бұрын

@@Iktbrs18 years

@AnthonyD-yy2in 2 ай бұрын

I had a female friend called Kim, who moved from Birmingham to live in North London around this time. I just wonder if she is still living in London...

@Iktbrs 2 ай бұрын

Thanks 🙏 for sharing but London big city I was living in sw6 3years and 1year in north east south west come back to Birmingham 1990 work in chinas factory 1991 then I started working in Birmingham buses till 2008

@sandpit72 2 жыл бұрын

The Trees public house 7.47, demolished shortly after.

@Iktbrs 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏

@andystreet4022 Ай бұрын

My late Father in Law Roy Selway was the Senior Buyer for the Construction Company "LAING" who were responsible for the rebuilding of New Street Station and erection of the Rotunda. He handed over the first £1million Sub Contract in the UK on that job. One of many great men who changed the face of the Midlands in the 60/70s. Built a huge section of the M1 Motorway too and also oversaw the building of Coventry Cathedral. He passed away in 2014 this very week. God bless you my old friend, I'm sure Carol your daughter, my late wife, is beside you watching over our great city. I miss you both.

@Iktbrs Ай бұрын

Thanks for info sorry to hear that no longer here this world runs like this

@gazzam3172 Жыл бұрын

No need to blur it though when txt comes up?

@Iktbrs Жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏 ok next time be ok 👍 no problem

@jonnygti 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, I was only 3 years old when this was filmed

@Iktbrs 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks you’re 3 year old I was 20 in 1987

@angelacooper2661 Жыл бұрын

I was 17 and a YTS trainee at the time of this footage!

@angelacooper2661 Жыл бұрын

@@Iktbrs You're the same age as my brother Anthony, then. His 20th birthday fell on the day of The Great Storm (Michael Fish!)

@Iktbrs Жыл бұрын

Ok 👍 thanks 🙏

@jonnygti Жыл бұрын

@@angelacooper2661 was that the one when they used to stand on an island of the uk, on water, to read the weather, and he said “it’s looking fine and sunny tomorrow” then there was a bloody great storm ⛈️ 😂

@markknight1011 10 ай бұрын

You got Selly Oak mixed up with Northfield.

@Iktbrs 10 ай бұрын

Thanks 🙏 I not mix that because I cut some videos part that way title on wrong place sorry for that

@danielalexander8588 Жыл бұрын

Was that your Bluebird?

@Iktbrs Жыл бұрын

Yes 👍 thank

@sohaibmuhammad3700 2 жыл бұрын

That was along long time ago

@Iktbrs 2 жыл бұрын

that time was free time and 2001 I was busy driving buses til 2010

@TheJms1977 7 ай бұрын

Great video but thats not selly oak its northfield 👍👍

@Iktbrs 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for your information 🧑🏼‍🦯☑️

@saxongreen78 3 ай бұрын

You know things are dire when people get nostalgic about the 1980s - I remember people being pretty miserable in those days!

@Iktbrs 3 ай бұрын

Thanks 💐

@minimaxi802 Ай бұрын

Being followed by a Nissan Bluebird.

@Iktbrs Ай бұрын

Thanks 🙏 that time I only afford that 🚗 car

@camoli744 11 ай бұрын

There wasn't as many car washers back then was there😅

@Iktbrs 11 ай бұрын

Thanks 😊

@wesstarmedia 7 ай бұрын

Much better access via car in those days. What did padestrianisation achieve exactly?

@Iktbrs 7 ай бұрын

Thanks 🙏 yes that’s days was very good time not coming back again

@gabriellaj.o.6180 5 ай бұрын

London has now gone the same way.

@Iktbrs 5 ай бұрын

@@gabriellaj.o.6180 thanks 🙏 when I was in London 1987-1990 back change allot today the same road work every ways London changed allot Fulham Chelsea else court Kensington all changed then before

@mrglide7078 8 сағат бұрын

ooh now let me help you there. Cleaner air. Safer streets. Not having to step off the narrow pavement down New St and into the path of a bus coming up behind you. Better environment all round really.

@wesstarmedia 2 сағат бұрын

@mrglide7078 crime is rife around the city centre. As regards people walking into busses, they should learn how to cross the road?

@Bacon_94 Жыл бұрын

Jeremy Clarkson went into pebble mill in 1998 or something

@Iktbrs Жыл бұрын

Yes 👍 thanks 🙏

@horseobrien395 6 ай бұрын

What are those buildings I remember them you don't see them now days ah I remember now they were called pubs

@Iktbrs 6 ай бұрын

Thanks 🙏 that was Woolworths John Lewis and moneys more

@stephenroche5107 Жыл бұрын

Who was filming this ? Stevie Wonder ?

@Iktbrs Жыл бұрын

This was I recorded first time video camera operating1987 thanks

@davidbull7210 9 ай бұрын

Stevie Wonder is a very good cameraman; he just can't watch it afterwards.

@Iktbrs 9 ай бұрын

@davidbull7210 thanks 🙏 that’s was first time holding camera in hand 🖐️ not bad for 1st time

@Iktbrs 9 ай бұрын

@davidbull7210 thanks 🙏

@ContentGramophone-tp9gw 4 ай бұрын

Most of the larger cities, an towns have lost there roots. Become overcrowded crime ridden hell holes

@Iktbrs 4 ай бұрын

Thanks 🙏 and that’s true

@Freddy99871 2 күн бұрын

Everyone in the comments are honestly complete idiots when they’re saying things like “much better times” and “things were so much better back then”. This was 1987. During this time the crime rate, gun crime and every other statistic was way higher than it is right now. Everyone’s crying about Birmingham now but back in the 90s and 80s it was 10x worse. Stop crying and pretending to be a victim, if anything Birmingham has gotten better

@Iktbrs 2 күн бұрын

Thanks 🙏

@mrglide7078 8 сағат бұрын

I completely agree. What a bunch of melts. I remember 87 very clearly. I worked in the city centre. It has changed beyond recognition. For the better