Old Images of Birmingham, England
Enjoy a glimpse of history through old images of Birmingham, in the West Midlands, England, UK.
Old Photos of Birmingham
Enjoy a trip through many decades and locations with the following collections of old photos of the city and surrounding areas.
Birmingham Nostalgic Pics Pt2: BazzaFromBrum on YouTube
Collection of old photographs of different areas of the City of Birmingham.
Old Pictures of Birmingham - Volume 2 - Earface on YouTube
Birmingham & Black Country Photographs
This award winning photography of Birmingham and the Black Country gives our last glimpse of the Industrial Revolution, with the canals and railways powering Birmingham's industry and supplying the rest of England and the UK.
These historic images were photographed by Peter Donnelly, as part of a project he began in 1965.
He won The Daily Telegraph photographic competition, whose judges included David Bailey (iconic fashion photographer), Emil Buhrur (editor of Camera, a Swiss magazine ), Ian James (editor of The Photography Year Book), and George Rodger (founder of Magnum Photographers Agency).
He also produced a unique series of poems postcards and posters about “Old Birmingham” which featured on BBC News, Radio WM & Midlands Today.
Birmingham and Black Country Nostalgia Award Winning Poems and Photographs are available for sale.
Old Birmingham England UK Award Winning Photographs: TheSiDon on YouTube
Birmingham – History Of Midlands TV News
This piece first broadcast on 9 May 2013. Televised on UK’s regional television ITV Central. Programme (Program) — ITV News Central.
Birmingham - History of Midlands TV News: BhamUrbanNewsUK on YouTube
Old Photos of Nechells and Erdington
Then and now photos of Nechells and Erdington in Birmingham.
Old Photos of Nechells and Erdington in Birminghm: Paul Burden on YouTube
Birmingham In The 1920s
Birmingham (1920s)
This is an excerpt from ‘Birmingham, The Way We Were’ DVD.
Birmingham in the 1920s: Britainonfilm on YouTube
Birmingham In The 1930s
Silver Jubilee (1935)
This rare 1930s home movie footage shows the city's 1935 Silver Jubilee celebrations.
1935 Birmingham, Silver Jubilee, Rare 1930s: Thekinolibrary on YouTube
Pageant of Birmingham (1938)
In 1938 Birmingham celebrated the 100th anniversary of the city’s Borough Charter.
A pageant was the main feature of the celebrations, held at Aston Park from July 11th to the 16th (because of its success, the pageant was extended to the following week, from July 18th until the 23rd).
Eight episodes told the story of Birmingham from its prehistoric origins to its position as the ‘hub of industrial England’ and its final status as a city in its own right. It was produced by Gwen Lally (1882-1963), the first female pageant master, and thousands of residents from across the city took part.
Pageant of Birmingham - 1938 - Idowish12 on YouTube
Birmingham (1930s)
A wide variety of locations in and around the city in the 1930s.
Starts with Birmingham’s water supply, which is from a reservoir at Elan Valley in Wales, which has an impressive dam.
The city scenes include:
- Bull-ring market
- Market hall
- shopping streets
- police
- schoolboys
- civic and historic buildings
- football
- playground
- snow and skiing
- handbell ringers
- Firemen and fire station
- power station and turbines
- industrial scenes with young boys, old men and women
- button making, pressing sheet metal, milk production, making studs
Birmingham in the 1930's - Film 1465 - HuntleyFilmArchives on YouTube
Birmingham, UK (1935)
Birmingham, West Midlands, UK, in 1935.
Birmingham, UK 1935 - BrianTrenerryArchive on YouTube
Birmingham In The 1940s
Birmingham Tram Tour (1940s)
Trams and trolleybuses in Birmingham. Bus marked “Special” leaves the depot in the rain.
Birmingham Tram Tour, 1940's - Film 17148 - HuntleyFilmArchives on YouTube
WWII, Industry, Munitions, & Home Front (1940s)
1940s Birmingham during WWII. Industry, munitions, and home front.
1940s Birmingham During WWII, Industry, Munitions- Thekinolibrary on YouTube
Coventry to Birmingham Car Rally (1940s)
Car Rally Coventry to Birmingham 1940's - Dean Nelson on YouTube
Birmingham Tram Tour (1940s)
- Birmingham Tram with “Special Car” written on side.
- Single-decker tram enters depot.
- Close up of driver adjusting points?
- Man runs for tram.
- Looking over the driver’s shoulder at the controls.
Birmingham Tram Tour, 1940's - Film 17147 - Film HuntleyFilmArchives on YouTube
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Unit (1940s)
Birmingham United Hospital and Queen Elizabeth Hospital Unit. Probation nurses in training prior to the foundation of the NHS.
- Doors open on nurses in library and canteen, ping-pong.
- Girls with hockey sticks.
- On steps waves goodbye to a car.
- Reading notice board in a lecture hall.
- Correcting uniform, buttons, hats.
- Sister tutor tells nurses to sit.
- Close-ups of faces.
- Anatomy, skeleton.
- Handling bones.
- Demonstration ward.
- Bed making.
- Dental health.
- Medical examination.
- Tray of thermometers in glasses.
- Taking temperature.
- Bed making.
- Using telephone.
- Black ambulance.
- Lifting casualty off the bed onto a trolley.
- Preparing X-ray.
- Bandaged man.
- X-ray examination.
- Doctor on the phone.
- Preparing operating theatre.
- Clearing equipment.
- Nurse gives an injection.
- Puts on a gown.
- Scrubbing-up.
- Patient into the theatre.
- Anesthetist.
- Breathing-bag inflating.
- Gloved hands and masks.
- Instruments.
- Handing utensils to doctor / surgeon.
- Patient recovers.
- Takes pulse.
- Awarded certificate.
- Pin on medals.
- Study adverts in job pages.
- Weighing baby.
- Help man into bed.
- Daffodils in a vase.
- Nurse relaxing, reading.
- Ends with nurse resembling Virgin Mary, with Halo.
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Unit (1940s) - HuntleyFilmArchives on YouTube
Birmingham In The 1950s
A Drive Around Central Birmingham (1950s)
Idowish12; Published to YouTube on 14 Apr 2011.
A drive around town in the early 1950s, Broad Street, Easy Row, Victoria Square, New Street, Corporation Street, Bull Street, and Colmore.
Birmingham (1959)
British Pathé: Published to YouTube on 13 Apr 2014.
Birmingham In The 1960s
Birmingham Memories (1960s)
belfast jack: Published to YouTube on 27 May 2018.
Remember England's second largest city as it was back in the 1960s.
Trips to Birmingham (1960s)
David MacPherson: Published to YouTube on 20 Aug 2015.
Trips to Birmingham etc in the 1960s.
Sixties Birmingham (1960s)
Synoneiro: Published on 7 Apr 2013.
Super-8 cine footage of a drive through Birmingham. Then there are shots of the countryside, which may be somewhere near the city.
The date is unknown, but would be in the late 1960s.
Includes a glimpse of the then-new original Bull Ring centre which was completed and opened in 1964.
Original footage shot by Pat McKeever , who sadly passed away in 1984.
Birmingham Bullring At Christmas (1963)
MalcB1001: Published to YouTube on 22 Dec 2012.
Birmingham Town Centre (1964)
Km6nab: Published to YouTube on 29 Sep 2011.
An 8mm home movie from 1964, showing the Bull Ring, New Street, and Corporation Street as they were then.
Bull Ring Centre Opened (1964)
British Pathé: Published to YouTube on 13 Apr 2014.
Full title reads: “Birmingham. Bull Ring Centre Opened”.
Inside the centre we see a yacht display, butcher’s shop, and an electrical shop with a display of TVs, radios and electric guitars.
Then we see the outdoor market, still part of the city centre despite the new shopping centre.
Next, a car turns off the main road into the Bull Ring Auto Park. The car is pushed onto a trolley and down to a parking bay.
Now we visit the covered bus station, built into the centre. The nearby escalator takes arriving passengers up to New Street and Small Brook.
Inside the shopping centre there’s an aviary. A small boy enjoys a model motorcycle ride.
Birmingham Town Centre (1964)
Km6nab: Published on 29 Sep 2011.
An 8mm home movie from 1964, showing the Bull Ring, New Street, and Corporation Street as they were then.
Bull Ring Shopping Centre (1965)
Patrick Bradley: Published to YouTube on 29 Jul 2017.
The film was made by the in-house film unit for John Laing & Son. T
In addition to their role leading the Bull Ring Centre’s development t,he firm was also involved with the construction of the M1 motorway and Coventry Cathedral.
The film was not aimed at prospective shoppers, but the town planners and government officials whose financial and political backing was essential to the scheme's acceptance.
Despite the film’s relentless optimism, Birmingham’s first Bull Ring centre dated quickly. By the time it was twenty years old, plans for a redesign were already in circulation.
The centre's replacement finally opened in 2003.
"This bright and breezy promotional film explores every concrete corner of Birmingham’s original mega-mall, from planning and construction to the site’s official opening, attended by Prince Philip. Shopaholics, nostalgists and fans of Brutalist architecture alike may marvel at the mall’s serene arcades, continental cafes and modern piazzas – a vision of modernity in concrete and piped muzak.”
Patrick Bradley on YouTube
Old Birmingham Postcards (1960s/1970s)
Mike Newcombe: Published to YouTube on 20 Feb 2018.
Old Birmingham postcards from the late 1960s to mid-1970s.
Birmingham In The 1970s
Birmingham 1970
Geoff Claydon: Published to YouTubeon 15 Jun 2015.
Old cine film from 1970 of Birmingham the Bullring outside market and other landmarks.
Pubs and Clubs of Birmingham (1970s & 1980s)
Bunnyman77: Published to YouTube on 30 Sep 2013.
Birmingham (1970s/1980s)
Saj Ali: Published to YouTube on 8 Jan 2012.
Birmingham 1970s & 1980s. Ali and sharifs.
Pub and Club Scene in Birmingham (1970s & 1980s)
Bunnyman77: Published to YouTube on 1 Jan 2014.
Birmingham In The 1980s
A Drive Around Central Birmingham Bullring (1981)
Paul Donovan: Published to YouTube on 21 Feb 2012.
Central Birmingham Bullring in March 1981.
Filmed through the windscreen of a Ford Escort. Shows the old Bullring shopping centre, Smallbrook Queensway and the Rotunda.
Includes some great old 1970s and 1980s cars.
Bullring Market, Birmingham (1981)
Marian Hall: Published to YouTube on 2 Jun 2014.
A trip around the Birmingham outdoor market shot by students on work experience at TURC in March 1981.
A Drive Along Birmingham Hagley Road and Broad Street (1981)
Paul Donovan: Published to YouTube on 28 Dec 2013.
Birmingham Hagley Road, Five Ways, Broad Street, and Paradise Circus.
“How Broad Street has changed….. No ICC !!! Filmed from my Ford Escort on Sony Betamax camera in March 1981 !!”
Paul Donovan on YouTube
Telly Savalas Looks at Birmingham (1981)
BFI: Published to YouTube on 30 Aug 2013.
"Telly Savalas, best known as the lollipop-sucking New York super sleuth Kojak, lends some ‘street cred’ to this colourful travelogue of Birmingham. In this extract we join an over-40s disco dancing competition and the groovers at Thursdays nightclub.”
Birmingham (1987)
Mark J Hickling: Published to YouTube on 25 Sep 2018.
Birmingham December 12th 1987.
“Found hidden on one of those video tapes your wife used to record her fave program, just as the credits roll, this little forgotten gem from 1987 appeared, Birmingham 1987, Symphony Hall is being built and you could drive to the top of New street, cutting up Corporation street going past the now gone John Lewis store to mention just a few.”
Mark J Hickling on YouTube
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