A History Of Birmingham 

This country has always been a little too 'London centric' IMHO. I hate what has become of my hometown has been ruined by the PC alphabet brigade that statue of the ' new nuclear family' near the Repertory Theater made my heart sink. No small wonder that city has declared itself bankrupt - these projects are a good 'smoke screen' for the corruption IMHO.

@@RGeorgeDoreyou don’t sound humble..

@@RGeorgeDoreyou’re not humble in the slightest. Birmingham has changed since you and I were young. Good!

As a proud Brummie who left there some 20 years ago it has changed beyond belief and for the better

@@stermindelves4251 how bad was Birmingham back in the day? If you say it's changed for the better... To me, Brum pales in comparison big time to other cities I've lived in or connected to. Especially the grotty city centre! But a lot of building work going on so maybe be a bit more sleek in coming years! & i also notice a distinct lack of beautiful and eye catching historical buildings as you go through the city centre.

@@stermindelves4251 It's a bit plastic now. Shiny on the surface.

@@classicepisodesofcrimewatc9971 & months ago grotty City center, well I don't think you have visited Birmingham mate as it is very modern, green City center

@@classicepisodesofcrimewatc9971 Well you do not know much about Birmingham then do you, if Birmingham modern rebuilt City Center is grotty to you I dread what you think London is like.

Peter de Berminghame, No doubt a Norman (I spit) - his name meaning 'Of Birmingham', and certainly not named after him. It has older Old English origins, and means 'Beorm's People's Settlement'.

The captains of industry were Boulton, Murdoch and Watt. Their golden statue is on Broad Street.

Has anyone noticed that they moved it to just across the road nearer to the Rep and that awful statue of the new LGBGTQRST family?@@john1703

Interesting, loved going to Blackpool from Birmingham in the mid 1970s.

@dizzysteve256 - i did similar 👍

all that back trace of your race for what? Is that make you a racist? Do you feel some sort of false superiority just for the fact that you were born in this place?

@@Salamantine weirdo. Grow up

@@Salamantinewow.. get a grip! They are proud of their hometown. My hometown! Only you mentioned race..

@@Salamantinesounds like you’re the racist one

mark away! hope you enjoy the video :)

Houston's mccaine ...twat

Successive governments comprising of crooked and shortsighted career politicians GUTTED our manufacturing, steel and coal industries by order of their paymasters.

Something to be both proud AND ashamed of.

Get your facts right, although Cadbury's is owned by Mondolaze International a part of Kraft Foods, the Bournville Factory in Birmingham produces Chocolate and also distributes it, it is the main Cadbury Factory for around the world and has never stopped making Chocolate.

​@@peterwilliamallen1063 I see. That must be why a lot of Cadbury's sold in the UK is made in Poland, because Bournville cannot keep up with local demand where somehow it managed it quite well before the takeover.

@@egbront1506 No Cadbury Chocolate Bar is made in Poland now as production of Chocolate was moved from Europe to Bournville about 6 months ago, what is made in Poland is Milka Chocolate.

@@egbront1506 What you are on about was in 2006 or there about, but about 5 years ago Mondolaz moved Cadbury Diary Milk Chocolate Production Back to Bournville Birmingham as did they from Germany 18 months ago to Angeler Merkle's disgust

Birmingham has always been a city of change, I don’t understand people who not only reject change but are affronted by it.

I keep getting lost in the silly one way systems ...

That is VERY interesting indeed; I'd be curious to find out if there are any lay-lines near-about.

@@RGeorgeDore…

The Americans did take the trade model from Birmingham, or certainly parts of it. I think it may have been Lincoln who sent an emissary over to learn the way.

Birmingham has not got a ship canal linking to the Severn Estuary, it has only got the canals that link into the River Severn at Stourport on Severn. Don't know where you got that idea from because it is not true, Manchester has a ship canal linking it to the River Mersey take from a Brummie of 60 odd years.

@@peterwilliamallen1063 Birmingham hasnt got a big ship canal like Manchester, but it's still got little canals and little boats.

@@musiclover5023 Are you blind, I said Birmingham has not got a ship canal only normal canals that join the River Severn at Stourport on Severn, it was carlmaster97 who stated that silly fact.

@@peterwilliamallen1063 What did I say that was wrong other than repeating what you had written, now that's a puzzle? No I am not blind nor stupid !

I wondered what that machine & input material led to! I now see that swaged plate is to be perfectly shaped into presumably car mudguards. Too wide to have been for motorcycles of the day. My 1970s motorcycles have mudguards like those, only smaller obviously.

@@GT380man The mudguards you see being fabricated are for trailers with tandem wheels. Brian Cutts did also make all kinds of motorcycle mudguards mainly for vintage bikes.

The Swan (centre) is still in yardley, I live right near it.

Well the city motto is “forward”. So I hope it does

For all of it's faults; you are right.

As a child I used to squelch through the mud where the rea oozes out of the ground on the slopes of the Waseleys.

they will never stop building in Birmingham ever.

Since when!

That's why I love scousers; and so surprised that they 'folded' so quickly for the ULEZ 91DIVOC bull-excrement

@@RGeorgeDorebless your tiny heart! It must be exhausting being you.

Officialy now Birmingham is the UK's second City and Second largest City due to it's population of 1.5 million citizens

Nice one🤣

Oh Grow up, Peaky Blinders TV series is crap, not even filmed in Birmingham. It is filmed in Liverpool, Manchester and the Black Country Museum in Dudley.

@@peterwilliamallen1063 in the coming years, there will be a film production lot that will be made in the city. So Peaky Blinders may yet be filmed in Birmingham.

@@Tamarlane389 The Peaky Blinders is fictional and there was no such family called the Shelby's plus the series has now finished

@@peterwilliamallen1063 I didn’t say it was real. I said Birmingham will have a studio for filming in the years to come. How did you get that from my comment? And since you brought it up. they were real, not sure about Shelbys, but the gang certainly was. So says our very own Carl Chinn, the Brum master.

@@Tamarlane389 And why are you so hung up on the Peaky Blinders, it has finished and yes the BBC and a Private film company are building Film Studios in the Digbeth area. No there was no such thing as the peaky Blinders, try looking them up there is no reference to a Gang called the Peaky Blinders in any History Book or Video of Birmingham and definitely no family called the Shelby's. There were Gangs in Birmingham in the Edwardian era, but they were Pick pockets and there were loads who used flick knives, no one gang ruled Birmingham and they definitely did not ride around on Horses with shot guns or machine guns over their shoulders, the name Peaky blinder refers to a fashion of the time which was bought about by young blokes at the time that had a quiff of Hair that covered one of their eyes which they then wore a peak cap over the quiff which only allowed them to look out of one eye hence the term " Peaky Blinder". I am a Brummie of 66 years and have loads of books and videos of Birmingham as my interest is the history of my City and there is no mention of any gang called the Peaky Blinders or the Shelby Family, so don't go down the road of be leaving they exist they are just fictitious.

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Birmingham in 2623 should be an interesting place, maybe someone watching a channel similar to youtube will look back on the good old days of 2020...

Let's hope the same fate befalls that sausage fingered muppet tooo...

Your welcome!

I would say that it's quite to opposite. Birmingham is home to the NWO Globalist scumbags...IMHO

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This video was found in A second hand shop

Steven McGuinness so far behind?

@@throwow1014 So far Forward

@@peterwilliamallen1063Think again Sir🤔 unless you have around £1.2 billion to spare which would go a long way to bailing the Council crooks out.

Yes - In Bradford St originally

THX MY DAD WORKED THERE AFTER THE AFTER THE WAR, HE WON A FREE CRUISE BY THE BRITISH NAVY

No, Norton have always been built in Worcestershire

Dave Hopkin Matchless on Bradford St

Bracebridge Street until early sixties then down to Plumstead SE London

Maybe it’s change for change 😉

You and me both Terence...There's a lot to be said for a simpler life.

It was spelt " Bermingham " original as per the video, how it was pronounced there is no record of it.

It was noy razed to the ground other wise it would not be around now

@@peterwilliamallen1063 it was it prob got rebuilt after 300 years

It was Called Bermingham in medieval times, the Name Birmingham is the modern name, look at the history of Birmingham on Google. Take it from a Brummie who reads the History of Birmingham

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it s Birminghstan to be more precise

@@Salamantine OH DODDO DOODO extinct like the real DODDO, why precisely do you call it Birmingstan, Firstly there are only 4 well known names Birmingham is named, Bermingham, Brummagem, Brum and Birmingham, if you are getting racist my friend, what you need to know is that there are over 1.5 million citizens living in Birmingham, of which only 10% are of Muslim origin, the other people of Colour living in Birmingham are Indians, Some Pakistan people are Christian and West Indian with the majority of Birmingham Citizens being White. We in Birmingham, the vast majority are not racist, we are tolerant because Birmingham being where the Industrial revolution started imported labour from all over the UK including Ireland, so us Brummies are multicultural, my family alone on my Fathers side came from Shrewsbury and my Mother came from London, yet I am a proud Brummie. Like I say to any one, it seems you do not live in Birmingham or ever visited Birmingham yet you make a stupid comment after watching a 50 min video about Birmingham in the 1970's, well mate it is 2021 now, the opening shot of the "Bullring Shopping Centre" is already out of date and history as all that has gone and been rebuilt with only the Rotunda remaining. Look at other Cities in the World all have ethnic populations living there and try substantiating you stupid comment.

@@peterwilliamallen1063 Dear Peter, I enjoyed reading your very Educated reply to "Dodo" I am Birmingham born and I adore what the authorities have done to redevelop my Birthplace. Mom.used to take us kiddies shopping every Saturday to Bull Ring and I always liked it at first but after three or four hours in town, well you know how some kids are, they want to go home. Always enjoyed riding our blue and cream open entrance Buses built by Sidney Guy of Guy motors fame. My friend Kevin went cartwheeling down.the pavement one Saturday , he didn't wait for the number 90 Bus to stop first as it approached the bus stop in Heathfield road, Handsworth doing 20mph he just jumped off the platform ! Birmingham has come a very long way from.its inception welcoming people from all over this planet. I am.living in the city of Fortaleza, Brazil now, lots of people here know my City because of Aston Villa, Makes me proud. !

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And those stupid Fookin statues; the one of the new nuclear family outside the Rep really boils my ur!ne

So in your feeble mind is Birminghm a dump.

@@peterwilliamallen1063 I do not have a feeble mind, we all see things differently, and yes Birmingham is a dump, because alot of the beautiful buildings have been taken away, it is cluttered and lacks character

@@ladymeghenderson9337 Well you may not have a feeble mind as you explained, but you seem to know nothing abouty Birmingham or have visited Birmingham. I have lived in Birmingham all 69 years of my life and worked all my life in Birmingham and I am not sure what as you put it " beautiful buildings" have been taken away. I can tell you Birmingham from the end of the War through the 1950's to the end of the 1960's was a right dump full of slums, bck to back houses, smelly Gas Works, factories,second world war bomb sites and no green areas at all, even the picture at the state of the 1963 Bull Ring Centre ended up from being Europes modernist Shopping Mall to being a dump and finnly being demolished and replaced by the new present Bullring/Grand Central Shopping Centre. Now a brief history for ypou as you don't know much about Birmingham, from the end of the 1960's and the start of the 1970's Birmingham City Council ripped the heart out of Birmingham Council Housing by demolishing all the slums and back to back houses by rebuilding Aston, Newtown and Ladywood with new Council Houses and Flats, they then built new Housing estates in Bromford, The Maypole and Kingsheath areas of Birmingham incorporating green areas and parks making Birmingham the Greenest City in the UK and Europe, they thn built ver spill housing in Daventry, Tamworth and Chelmsley Wood w for Birmingham Citizens which thinned out Birminghams population but still kept it at arround 1.5 million citizens making Birmingham the second largest City in the UK. Next Birmingham City Council rebuilt the City Centre especialyy arround Centinery Square and the Town Hall, the Bullring centre as mentione, pedestrianised the City Centre, bulit the midland metro through the City Centre removing car and bus traffic resulting in a clean modern cosmopolitan City and City Centre, to put you right no as you put it beautiful buildings were demolished as these edwardian archetecture buildings exist arround St Phillips Cathedral, Colemore Row, leading over to the Jewelery Quarter, even the derelict Grand Hotel on Colemore Row was rebuilt and opened. The old Library by the Town Hall was demolished due to it's bad state and being in the way of a major redevelopement including a road tunnel and was not worthy of being a major librry in the UK's second City and even that is now in a new position and the 3rd library in central Birmingham and is now the largest public Library in Europe, so NO @ladymeghenderson9337 Birmingham is NOT a dump as proved by the thousands who visit our German Xmas Market every year the largest authentic German Xmas Market outside of Germany, the millions of visitors who visited Birmingham during the 2022 Commonwealth Games and a lot still vist Birminghm now, the fact that the European Atheletics chapionship games are comming to Birmingham in 2026 the first time these games have been held outside mainland Europe due in part to the outright sucess of the said Commonwelth Gmes and the Fact Birmingham is on the shortlist to hold Prince Harry's invictus Games. If you look at other Birmingham Video's foreghn people have looked at Brum and are astonished how beautiful Birmingham is now and the video you are watching is showing Birmingham of the past 6 years ago, so as I said it seems you actually know nothing of my modern Birmingham or have even bothered to vist Birmingham because you are talking utter rubbish. Believe me I have witnessed the transformation f Birmingham as a dump in the 50's and 60's to today's modern City.

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The sh1te did tho...even more an embarrassment...KRO...SOTV

How stupid this comment is probably a villa fan but Birmingham city is Birmingham fact

@@Terence-zb5cb 😂🤣😂🤣

@@finneyomalley typical coward

You've fallen into THEIR trap be citing incompetence - these people are crooks and know exactly what they're doing.

My family name dates back to the Norman invasion of 1066, and as an manufacturing engineer I am proud to be from Birmingham. But after watching this I feel sad how Birmingham has changed over the last 40 years.

@@CBEnoddyy Dingby would be a Viking name with it's by ending.

@@meteoman7958 The Normans were Vikings. (Norseman)

@@petervickery7027 Hi Peter, nice to see the thread is still alive.

I moved to London 30 years ago and feel very much the same; although I'll not return to live there.

I still have a picture of this statue from the late 1980s, before it was destroyed by fire a few years later.

@@evertonporter7887 if it was the beige statute I loved it as a kid running over it and climbing it (probably not what was intended) it did smell of piss from time to time - but it was burnt down much more than a few years later.

I presume you are American. You might hear the accent in Peaky Blinders.

@@mariegriffiths or a close approximation! My Brummie accent has gone up in the world thanks to Peaky Blinders!

@@mariegriffiths No you wont because they get it mixed up with a Black Country Accent like every one else does.

@@mariegriffiths I dought it, I am a Brummie and when programmes like peaky Blinders try to recreate the Brummie accent, they always talk in a black country accent

just speak proper normal english you idiots

As bang up goes, that's probably as bad as it gets.

Dammed straight...

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Errr yeh 😢

Progress.

Immigration, modern renovation, it a went down mid 2000s , 911, covid, social media, 😢

Bermingham/ Birmingham, there is no J in our Cities name and has never been

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Forget about The Peaky Blinders, take it from a Birmingham Citizen, Peaky Blinders is a stupid TV series that is not even filmed in Birmingham and does not truly show what Birmingham was like in that era, if you believe what you see of Peaky Blinders you will believe any thing.

@@peterwilliamallen1063 don't be too hard on.him and if he believes anything about PB, he's Brazilian.

I would like to visit that dank musty Castle

I want reparations. LOL