American Reacts to the BEST Places to Travel in Birmingham
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- Опубліковано 11 чер 2023
- As an American I am not very familiar with British cities at all, so today I am very excited to learn about one of the most popular cities in England.. Birmingham, and some of the absolute best places to visit there. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
As a Brummie this was an absolute joy to watch. I've never seen anyone get so excited over Birmingham in my life 😂
same
Interesting you can pronounce trebuchet but can't pronounce Warwick or Birmingham. Still, it's always a joy to see others appreciating our country.
i know he makes me cringe every time he says place names wrong it make me want to reach through the screen and tango slap him so hard for mispronouncing and yes he does enjoy watching every video and i wish he would watch a video on pronounciations but he's a yank and will never learn sorry if i miss spell anything
Sorry mate from a Brummie of 68 years he is pronouncing BIRMING-HAM correctly but with an American accent, why is it Spelt BIRMING-HAM if that is not how you pronounce it, BIRM is BIRM, ING is ING and HAM well is HAM as in a HAM Hock, it definitely is not UM, so yes it is Definitely BIRMING-HAM and it is just accents that slightly change the name from one person to another so if your accent like people from the Black Country call Dudley, DUDLAY no matter what you thing the correct international pronunciation is BIRMING-HAM full stop, so I do not know why you bother to comment or try to correct some one calling my City by it's correct name.
@@peterwilliamallen1063 ok why dont you make a video about it and post it on every thing from youtube tiktok to facebook and tell every person from the uk that we have been saying it wrong for as long as birmingham has been around and that the yanks are right and its us brits that are wrong if you think you know better
@@scottosborne2915 Well mate, you are barking up the wrong tree as I am as you put it a BRIT and a Brummie of 68 years so yes as a UK Citizen and a Brummie to you a Birmingham Citizen I do know better, Ham is Ham in any English Language, now tell me this would you ask for an "um sandwich, Um / Egg and Chips, Um Salad or Breaded um or put the other way would you ask for a hamberrela" no you ask for a Ham Sandwich, Ham / Egg and Chips, Ham Salad or Breaded Ham or an Umbrella, so Ham in Birmingham is as it is BIRMING-HAM and if you ever bothered to read about the History of Birmingham who ever you are like I have on my City, the name Birmingham stands for the Hamlet ( HAM, Home of the tribe of Beormaginham in Anglo Saxon times, if you are a Brummie it is the accent that changes it. but the actual name is BIRMINGHAM also named after William De Bermingham where the name becomes more modern to Birmingham, so you are just making your self look silly by saying that Tyler Rumple is pronouncing it incorrectly which he is not, he is pronouncing it correctly with an American accent it is you that is pronouncing it incorrectly, no wounder people around the Country think us Brummies are thick when we contradict some one who is calling my City by its correct name and cant say it correctly them selves, So yes I am a UK Citizen and have lived in the City of Birmingham all my life of 68 years of it as has my parents, in laws and our Grand parents so my family has lived in Birmingham oops sorry to you Bermingum 🙄 for over 100 years so yes I do know a lot about Brummagem being interested in it's History, and Brum / Brummagem is not a correct name for Birmingham, it originates from the industrial revolution when Birmingham was making metal work and the Metal Workers decided to cash in a make fake counterfeight goods which got the nick name as Brummagem Ware and us Brummies were saddled with the name.
exactly, they come from all over the world, even by rubber dinghy..
Your tourist budget will definitely go a lot further in Brum than in London, if you're thinking of visiting the UK!
Absolutely agree. Birmingham is ideally situated in the middle of England and has a good infrastructure. It is the obvious place for people visiting from the US to use as a base for the rest of England / Wales and London if you must.😀
I think the video does quite a good job of selling Birmingham and surrounding areas. I wouldn't mind visiting myself. It's not a place I've visited and I live relatively near in south Cheshire.
Birmingham is fantastic 😊
I loved watching Tylers confused face at the gorilla playing the drums. Poor man was given no context for it 😂
It was a Cadburys tv advert in the UK btw 😅
tbh it had very little context itself - just the logo at the end.
A bit of American history for you Tyler. Benjamin Franklin visited Birmingham several times to meet with the likes of Matthew Boulton and James Watt(the inventor of the steam engine) and other great engineering and science innovators; in his own words he learned a lot.
James watt wasn't the inventor of the steam engine. He just massively improved it
Cornishman Trevithick invented the steam engine, to pump out the water from the tin mines, many of which went under the Sea for quite a distance
@@Dave.Thatcher1 actually it was Thomas newcomen, from Devon.
@@Dave.Thatcher1 and Richard trevithick was only 5 when watt improved the steam engine
@@melissareohorn7436 He invented the Industrial Steam Engine at his Soho Foundry in Birmingham for industrial use in factories instead of water power.
Proud Brummie, and I live next to the Canal in the centre of Brum (how we locals refer to the City), and have always loved walking along the myriad of towpaths, and seeing how the city has changed just in my lifetime.
Same! This video made me feel proud. Brum doeesn't get the credit it deserves ... it's great here!
As much as I have nostalgia for the big old grey brutalist buildings we’ve lost, Brum really is getting better and better.
Ever evolving Brum.
The Bullring is NOT a restaurant its a shopping centre, what you call a mall.
Yes and the marble building lol, is Selfridges.
Hi Tyler, Cadburys and Hershey's came to an agreement whereby Hersey was allowed to sell Cadbury brand chocolate but with Hershey's recipe but Cadbury was not allowed to sell their own recipe chocolate in the USA British chocolate must contain at least 25 percent Coco solids whilst American chocolate must contain only 10 percent. British chocolate is made from pure milk and sugar not corn syrup. American chocolate also contains butyric acid to help shelf life. Butyric acid is also a constituent in baby sick! Those are the reasons British chocolate tastes far far.better than the American stuff they pass off as chocolate.
I think the butyric acid fact in’s common knowledge by now…..
A difference in how the contents are listed, the 25% min. cocoa solids in the UK/EU include cocoa butter which is solid at ambient temperatures. The US list the cocoa butter separately not as cocoa solids as it is a solid vegetable oil. Both contain similar amounts of cocoa powder.
Sadly, Tyler never visits the comments for his videos.
Yeah, America buys a first class English chocolate recipe and then adds their own concoctions which are positively illegal in the chocolate making process. The only way they can make billions of dollars is by duping the American public into thinking they are getting the real deal. Typical!
@wessexdruid7598 probably because he acts about 10. No point in him having a channel if your not seeing the information that people give him. Might as well go back to doing his micky mouse voice overs. 🤣🤣
Tyler, if you want towns and cities with castles, ancient architecture, medieval. jacobean, georgean, victorian, and ultra modern buildings, the first thing you need is two thousand years of history.
You’re right, there’s so much more like the Chinese Quarter, Irish Quarter, football grounds, many entertainment places - several theatres, the arena, Symphony Hall, Grand Central Station. Birmingham Royal Ballet, the Custard Factory, 2 cathedrals. hundreds of pubs, street art, the biggest German Christmas Market outside Germany… and the Botanical Gardens.
Yes lots to see, and right next door to a much older region, the Black Country with its fantastic open air museum.
Football 2 teams Aston Villa [hurrah] & Birmingham City.
I keep hearing the chant - Villa! Villa! Villa!
If you visit only London in the UK you as a visitor will miss so much of what the UK is.
What a great promo for Birmingham, it makes a Brummie proud to see all those wonderful changes.
What was missed a little was that Industrial Revolution started in Birmingham. It was a tough working class city that pulled itself up by its bootstraps from the slums of the past to what we see today. There's always room for improvement but theres one thing about Brum is that it is a city that embraces the future and it strives to change with the times.
Ah i just remembered they missed out on the auto industry, the Mini and the Jaguar. Gosh all the memories are all coming back. 😊
Well technically Brum had help from its not so noisy neighbours the Black Country a completely different area worth visiting in starting the Industrial Revolution the Black Country built the Tools, Nuts and Bolts, Mined the Coal and forged the Metal that was that then transported by the Canal or Cut as we Yamyams call it to Brum where it was used in your industry as well as ours.
@@lorddarlo6194and the father of the Industrial Revolution, Abraham Darby the elder, was born in Woodsetton in Dudley before moving to Telford where the world’s first Ironbridge was built. The rest, as they say, is history.
AMERICAN HERE LIVING 10 MILES SOUTH OF BRUM for 27 years. Took me a while to pronounce correctly, Birming um, not Haam. SHIRE is always Shear. War ick Shear, 2nd w not pronounced, despite the narrator pronouncing it for the American audience. Lots to learn when American in the UK but second nature now despite the fact I still have an American accent after all these years. 😂
Until you come to Scotland, where it's more like 'shy-urr, at least in my area (I have no doubt it's different in other parts of Scotland)'. The Welsh and Irish probably pronounce it differently too😆
@Evelyn Wilson good point. In all these years I only visited Scotland for the first time in May to Glasgow, now that's a fab accent and at least I can tell people I have American ears when I can't understand glasowegians. 😂😂. My daughter moved there recently so more trips planned soon.
@@evelynwilson1566 Or "sha" as I and many others pronounce it too
Then as a Brummie of 68 years you have learnt wrong, it is only called Birming-um because of the Brummie Accent it's correct name is as it is spelt BIRMING-HAM as in a ham sandwich, get fed up with Brummie's correcting people who say it correctly, this is why people thing Brummies are thick, another example of local dialect, people call the town of Dudley, DUD-LEY but the local black country people call it DUD-LAY, never mind I'm off to visit Buckingham Palace oh sorry Buckingum Palace
@@peterwilliamallen1063 But mate literally the entire country says it like that! Londoners say Fulum not Ful- Ham or Tottnum not Totten-Ham. No one tends to say Dagen-Ham they say Dagenum. Many Londoners say Birminum when speaking of Birmingham so going off this they would have to be really thick.
Canals are a legacy of our industrial past.
Though now they are mostly used for pleasure with narrow boats using the canals, originally the canals were built to transport bulk goods like coal via barges to the city factories.
This was the only real bulk transport option before the concepts of moving mass materials by train or by truck.
You have a Birmingham in U.S.A.Alabama.
@@iriscollins7583 there are a few Birminghams in the USA, in different states
Good place to get rid of your shopping trolley also
@@andyb7963 But none of them are pronounced properly!
In the 80's Birmingham had more shopping carts and bicycles in the canals than Venice also,
The canals were the first `highways` of the early industrial revolution. Before railways and steam.
Horses pulled the barges. Containers were standardised. Whole families lived on them, the `Bargees`.
Now they`re mostly used for recreation. You can live on them too.There are videos about that.
Canals vs horse and carts, 17th century, canals displace more weight and could travel safer than on mud roads
Yes horses pulled the barges. When I was a boy aged nine horses stilled pulled a barge loaded with timber all the River lea Tottenham to the timber yards in Edmonton. North London. 1950.
If you're into Tolkien and LOTR, we actually have the Two Towers here in Birmingham. The first is a building called Perrott's Folly, and the second is the nearby Edgbaston Waterworks Tower. Tolkien lived in a house only a few hundred yards from these 2 tall buildings, and they were the inspiration for the two towers of Barad-dûr and Orthanc, Sauron and Saruman's citadels in LOTR.
Not quite accurate, there is some debate over which towers are referred to by the two towers as it never actually says but the water works towers you mention inspired the towers of gondor, i think isangard was the selly oak university.
Sarehole Mill dude. Thats the big one. Sarehole Mill.
The Hobbit ref made me smile and brought up memories from my childhood. As kids from the neighborhood we'd sneak off to the Lickey Hills ala Stranger Things 😅. Its an ancient large rambling park of old trees and hills, it feels old like its been there forever and it has as it goes as far back as the Stone Ages.
It also became one of Tolkien's favourite haunts and was the inspiration for the Shires, the home of the Hobbits. We'd play and pretend to be Hobbits being chased by the Orks (usually the older kids for some reason and they always had big sticks 🤔). Fun times 😊
As a native Brummie (person from Birmingham) there are a few more tidbits I'd like to add that weren't mentioned.
In terms of industry, Jaguar Land rover have their factories based in Birmingham. Every Range Rover you've ever seen was built there. The Jaguar factory in Castle Bromwich (an area of Birmingham) used to build Spitfires and Hurricanes during the war.
Also the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) is in Birmingham, a place where all sorts of events take place, such as Crufts or Comicon.
Also you were surprised about curry, but Birmingham is truly a contender for best place to have a curry in the entire UK. We're a very multicultural city and the curry's here are so good. We even have an are referred to as the "Balti triangle".
The city was featured in Spielberg's movie Ready Player One (as the dystopian hellscape real -world)
Finally google spaghetti junction. For reasons I can't fathom people seem to be awed by it
I think the reason Americans don't know about Birmingham is because it is overshadowed by other cities that cater to tourists more, Even towns like Stratford and Oxford tend to have more that tourists love.
Land Rovers have never been built in Birmingham, they were as now built at the Rover Works in Solihull, the JLR factory at Castle Bromwich in Birmingham has only ever built Jaguar Cars and since the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games more tourist are now visiting the UK's second City.
@@peterwilliamallen1063 the factory being 5 minutes from the Birmingham border and being mostly Birmingham workers I think counts 😂
Technically Land Rover is just outside Solihull if I recall correctly. It was near where my oldest best friend lived.
@@Helios_Titan The Factory is a bit more than 5 mins from the City Boundary, but sorry it is and always has been in Solihull which is a Metropolitan Town in it's own right with in the West Midlands Metro Council with no affiliation to the City of Birmingham whether the workers come from Birmingham or not, so no it does not count. Carry on like that and you will get the wrath of the Solihull people on your back, the poor souls just about by the skin of their teeth never got took over by Birmingham in 1974 but Sutton Coldfield lost out.
@@Kizzycatwoman Well I don't know where you have been all these years but the Rover Works has technically as you put it has never been outside Solihull, it has always been in Solihull since the Rover Works was built and on the Early Rover Cars of the 1950's, and 60's on the Land Rovers and Rover Cars the Badge always said "Rover of Solihull", it was only when British Leyland took over Austin, MG, Riley, Morris, Austin Healey, Jaguar, Daimler and Rover Cars which then became Austin Rover and had factories in Longbridge Birmingham that the Rover name became connected to Birmingham, when what then became Rover Cars with their main factories at Solihull and Longbridge run by the Phoenix four went bust and the old Rover empire was broke up with MG Cars going to the Chinese, Mini and the Morris plant in Oxford going to BMW and Jaguar/ Land Rover going to TATA and the Indian steel makers with the Rover works based in Solihull and the Jaguar Plant being in Castle Bromwich in Birmingham. So technically the Land Rover plant is in Solihull not Birmingham
Birmingham is my home city! I’m very protective of it even though it’s far, far from perfect. I’m expecting the comments to full of inaccuracies from people who aren’t from here. I’m watching you 👀
I'm from Birmingham and it isn't perfect but then again neither is London, Manchester, Liverpool etc. It is a very underrated city.
At one time, the Birmingham Canal was so busy that the tolls it charged allowed it to pay a £200 dividend on a (nominally) £100 share. They had to build a second canal to relieve the congestion. If you had the foresight to invest in Birmingham Canal shares when it was first being built, you were set up for life.
EDIT: Wightwick Manor (pronounced Wittick) near Wolverhampton is another fantastic historic house to visit in the Birmingham area.
And I'm surprised that the video didn't mention that Birmingham was the birthplace of Heavy Metal music.
Is the £100 pounds adjusted for inflation
@@melissareohorn7436 No, it was £100 at the time. It was possible to live well on £50 or £60 per year in those days, and a labourer would only be paid a few shillings a week.
Great reminder, ELO, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Robert Plant...and don't forget the eighties Duran Duran, UB40, Bow Wow Wow, Toya Wilcox, The Beat...
Birmingham - Home of Black Sabbath. And yes, that's pretty much the only think I know about the city. The guitarist for that band, Tony Iommi worked in an industrial plant. On his last day before he was due to leave his job and become a professional musician he was asked to run a sheet metal machine that he had not been trained on and ended up losing the tips of his fingers. Doctors told him he would never play guitar again but he made himself some new finger tips out of washing up bottles and taught himself to play again before becoming a legend. The Black Sabbath story is well worth looking at, even if you are not into the band that is credited with popularising heavy metal. They are easily the most influential band in the genre.
"The workshop of the world" made everything at one time from fine jewellery to heavy industry. Things were made to a high standard. I'm Welsh but they have my favourite accent. Not universally popular but then I love regional accents.😁👍
Cadbury is actually the largest chocolate maker in the world. It has almost 40 percent of the global market in chocolate. Up to the dawn of the age railways, canals were the principal means by which goods traversed to and between inland cities, throughout much of Europe. Hence, few significant town in England were without access to canals or navigable waterways. Lots of these remain as leisure features today.
Since being taken over by kraft/mondelez (whatever) it no longer produces chocolate, but merkin turds
I went to school with a genuine Cadbury girl. As in from the family Cadbury
@@Kizzycatwoman At KEHS?
Actually it’s Mars Wrigley, then Ferrero…
@@frogandspanner Kings High yeah
The word Sheriff comes from a very old county official in UK - "Shire Reeve"
I'm English and I didn't know this stuff about Birmingham. A very very insightful take on the place, I'm now a fan and given a chance will visit... Tyler you're such a snob when looking at those from the past who had much, with the much came great responsibility and duty to make life better for all which you don't appear to get... Look to the US present insanely rich and question them. Great reaction, thank you.
This was such a lovely video to watch! I've lived in Birmingham for 16 years (originally from Nottingham) and it makes me proud to call "Brum" my home :)
The pronunciations are killing me 😂
I'm sure I will not be alone in mentioning your pronunciation. :-)
Birmingham - Burm-ing-um
Warwickshire - Wo-rick-shu
But don't change, we enjoy your cheerful murdering of our place names! ;-)
shu ?? ...shirley you do give a damn, and you mean to pronounce _shire_ as sheer, shear, or sh'eer, not as shu/shoo,?
then again I guess you likely don't know anyone from a county.....shire who corrected you, or if you did, you ignored them.
Dunno where you're from ode (i'm from Stoke) but our pronunciation is different.
Birmingham - Burming-am
Warwickshire - Wo- rick- *sher* (not the sound of 'shoe' as your alluding too)
All in all it dunna matter, as at least with our differing accents we can at least get it bloody right.🤣
@@SeeDaRipper... I was not implying "shoo" but "shuh" as in Urr, but without an "r" sound at the end. So unless your "am" rhymes with ham, then I suspect we are pronouncing both exactly the same.
I think Tyler really needs to watch a video on how to pronounce our cities and towns. The amount of times the commentator of the video said it correctly, but Tyler still said Birming"ham" 😅
@@VaughanCockell Yeah writing phonetics is quite difficult. C'est la vie.🤷♂
Pronunciation Guide: Warwickshire = worrickshuh
Warwick Castle is amazing- but is actually 30 miles from Birmingham. By train it takes about an hour to get there from central Birmingham.
Cadbury's chocolate in the US is NOT the same as it is in the UK. It' made to a different recipe. So do not judge Cadbury's by what you can buy over there!
The 'High Sherriff' in the UK is not at all the same as a US Sherriff. The High Sherriff is the representative of the Monarchy in their county, and is invilved in a lot of ceremonial duties, as well as being responsible for the well being of the judiciary, and acts as official 'Returning Officer' for general elections.
Birmingham always used to be England's second city- but I believe Greater Manchester has now overtaken it by size.
Sorry Caroline but Cads have started producing from the EU. taken over by Mondolez. Tastes nowhere near as good. N*stles is still nice though.
Is that near Wor Chester shire, skips ? Prithee, my dear, can you pronounce "Slaithwaite" ? Unless ya'v not heard it before ( or ya from there) ya'v no chance. I'm 25 miles away, and until i actually went there, did i know how to pronounce it. Ya ca'nt beat accents/ local idioms.
If Greater Manchester were a city then that might count for something, But its not...
The actual city of Manchester is around half the size of Birmingham. The geographical area of Greater Manchester is larger than the West Midlands but does not have the population density.
Pronunciation Guide: Worricksheer. We're not all posh.
At the beginning of the industrial revolution before the birth of railways canals were the only method of transporting large goods loads from factories to ports and other cities and towns.
The narrowboat on the right at 4.49 is ours!! Birmingham used to be known as a city of a thousand trades - it was here that the the Industrial Revolution was born. Love Brum.
Waricksher is how it is pronounced. American’s pronounce New Hampshire correctly but have trouble with Britain’s counties ending in ‘shire’. Birminghum is how we pronounce Birmingham, it has been called ‘Brummagem’ by the locals since the 17th Century hence the name ‘Brummie’ for people from the area.
Stop correcting this bloke, how you say it is how it sounds in Brummie, but it is called Birmingham as per this bloke with an American Accent and it has never been called Brummagem, this is a nick name for Birmingham due to the factories making counter feight fake goods in the Civil War which got the nick name Brummagem Ware and the towns people were nick named Brummies which stuck, Officially Birmingham as been called Beormingham in Anglo Saxon Times and Bermingham after the De Bermingham family who were Lords of the Manner which later changed into the present name of Birmingham.
I live in the UK and have never been to Birmingham. But would definitely like to after seeing this video. I love your reaction to the buildings, the Tolkien and Cadbury parts too, nice to see you moved emotionally at the end also. Good one this one, would double like if I could.
I love your enthusiasm for learning about places - your videos are a joy to watch 😀
there are several settlements around that have Bromwich in their name, Castle Bromwich and West Bromwich. Birmingham was originally a small village called Bromwichham, this was corrupted to Brumidum by the locals and eventually Birmingham, thats why the locals still call it Brum. It is the most popular destination for people moving out of London, the home of the industrial Revolution, and has the youngest population of any city in western Europe. there is a large Indian, Pakistani Irish, Welsh chinese and Polish population, so cuisine is varied and interesting. It has the highest number of Michelin Starred Restaurants outside London, it has a large arena, a concert Hall and 3 large theatres in the Centre. The view from the restuarant (marco Piere Whites i think) is not actually forrest but the city centre. It is planted with thousands of trees and has more parks per capita than any other UK city.
I think you need to do a bit of research into Birmingham like I do, The Anglo Saxon name for Birmingham was Beormingaham, which meant the Home ( Hamlet) of the tribe of Beorminga ( Ham meaning Hamlet) , it later was renamed Bermingham after the family of De Birmingham's who were Lords of the manner at the time of the dooms day book and over the years it changed to Birmingham, it was never called " Bromwicham" not sure where you got that from. Castle Bromwich and West Bromwich were independent settlements with nothing to do with Birmingham, a part of Castle Bromwich only becoming a part of Birmingham during the 1900's
Tyler, if you are interested in engineering/architecture, when you are visiting London, I recommend that you see the Thames Barrier, that was built about 35 years ago and protects London from the North Sea. Visit it by sailing down the Thames from Central London. Visit Greenwich on the way back and have a look at London's 'Sistine Chapel-type ceiling' in one of the Greenwich buildings (you will have to book for that).
Most of our major cities, towns and even tiny villages are all connected by our inland waterways (canals) 👍
Great reaction - genuinely felt your infectious positivity
I thoroughly enjoyed this post. Thanks for showing it.
Birmingham is the centre of a large conurbation and metropolitan county with seven Boroughs and a population of 2.8 million, about the same size as Greater Manchester. Historically it was a very heavy industrial area, mainly the metal working industries, hence all the canals for moving coal and iron ore around in bulk. Other towns/cities in the conurbation include Wolverhampton, Walsall, Dudley, Solihull, West Bromwich
Coventry?…..squeeek
Mark Thomas you are getting mixed up as Birmingham does not just have Severn boroughs and a population of 2.8 million, the City of Birmingham is made up of 51 districts of the City and has the largest urban City Council in Europe and a population of 1.5 million citizens living with in the City Boundary and is not the same size of Greater Manchester which believe it or not is not a City, what you are talking about is the West Midlands Metropolitan County that may have 9 areas which includes 3 Cities, Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Coventry and large Towns such as Walsall, West Bromwich, Dudley, Solihull and Sandwell plus a load of other smaller towns and is larger than Greater Manchester slightly in size and population of over 4 million people, again some one who gets confused between a City and a Metro Council, and in the UK we do not have Borough's in out Cities they are called districts it is in the USA they are called Borough's
@@sunstrobe2000 Yes Coventry is in the West Midlands County now
The area in London where I lived as a child has so many canals it's called "Little Venice".
It's gorgeous watching you get so excited thank you
Brilliant, Thank you it made me want to revisit Birmingham
I have to say you make me smile with your comprehension of the ever video clip you are watching, you just seem to enjoy the experience so much. Thanks
Definitely a city worth visiting and you are doing a great job promoting it.
My birthplace and I loved it so much. Great video ❤
Do a video on The Forth and Clyde canals.. a network that runs from Edinburgh to Glasgow. Can walk along alot of the way. Also the Falkirk Wheel, world first rotating boatlift between the 2 canals, a great engineering structure.
This was a great walk though of Birmingham it was very well dun, and just looking at your face said how much you enjoyed the hole episode.
I went to Birmingham in the early 70's, did not think much of it. After seeing this i need to go back. The changes are fantastic!
The film could easily have included Stratford on Avon the birthplace of William Shakespeare which is only about 35 minutes away by road.
In the UK, before proper roads there were canals
Canals were put out of business by the faster railways
Railways were reduced by proper roads.
Horse pulled canal barges, the steam engine then the combustion engine.
Great video and reaction as always Tyler 👌
I love this. I grew up in Warwickshire (worrickshur) and my school was just 5 minutes from Warwick Castle. I went to university in Birmingham and my nephew-in-law came from Wolverhampton. So yeah it was great seeing you gushing over my home towns.
Next do the Peak District where I live close to now. You will gush over Bakewell and Matlock and Buxton.
I live a 20 minute train journey away from Birmingham in Northampton. I never realised what an amazing place it is! Wow!
found this video randomly but i love it. i live less than a mile from sarehole mill and hearing this guy talk about it from 1000s of miles away is great
I used to live close to Sarehole Mill, the video was a bit vague but its a good place to visit.
As a Brummie; really cool to see somebody so excited about Birmingham, and seems the video has gone down well with UK folk who’ve never visited too!
I used to work in an office that was literally facing the big wooden giant man near the start lol. It’s actually in a place called “The Custard Factory”, named as it was where Bird’s custard was previously made - it’s converted to retail, offices and bars / cafes now though!
So glad you enjoyed the video of my home Birmingham. I live close to Sarehole Mill. I love watching your reactions to all the UK videos and the differences between USA and UK . 😊
At Warwick castle they do the most elaborate displays in the summer (peak tourist season) but as well as displaying it's history they'll also hold concerts and movie screenings, pink performed there just this weekend!
Glad to find this video. I'm a very proud Brummie and yes there is a lot more that the Expedia video didn't cover. It can be worse than that and also better but it's diverse and deep. And very underrated.
Hi from Birmingham. 👋
Great vid!
Theres a lot to explore in and around Birmingham, eg. The lickey hills, Blakesly hall, Botanical gardens also places on the outskirts of Birmingham such as Avon Croft museum. 😉
Great reaction my friend. Birmingham is my home city I lived and worked there for many years on the boats
Most major industrial cities had canel routes for shipping and trades. Birmingham has several boroughs inside it. Whilst Birmingham had goldsmiths and jewellery it's neighbour Coventry had manufacturing, cars, motorcycles and the engine for the spitfire. The Midlands was the industrial centre of England. Warwick Castle is very near Stratford and Coventry and has the famous working Warwick Castle. The Earl of Mercia lived in that castle and helped 3 Princes become king granting him lots of land and the title of kingmaker. His wife famously rode through his city of Coventry naked to make him reduce taxes for the people and traders of Coventry. It is in fact true that Birmingham has way more canels than Venice but its not widely known
You might be interested in having a look at ‘narrow boats’ or ‘wide beams’, which are the boats that some people live on, full time, on the UK canals …. Also there is a very pretty area in London called Little Venice where the Regents canal and Grand Union canals converge
As a proud Brummie, it is always called Brum.
I live near Brum and it's always an enjoyable place to visit :) often overlooked.
Really enjoyed that, Tyler. Last time I was in Birmingham was in the 80s and it didn't seem so attractive at that time...!
Love your pronunciation of 'Warwickshire' - it's kind of the equivalent of a Brit trying to pronounce 'Poughkeepsie' :)
A great video... Thank you
My home city. Can't believe you've done a video on it.
First thank you for looking at Birmingham. It is truly beautiful city and yes video over looked many thing you can do. One point about Aston Hall it overlooks Aston Villa football club and home end of stadium is named after owner Holt. And also our founding owner William McGregor came up with idea to create football league.
My family went boating on the canals. It was 1974. Post industrial🏭 decline meant the canals were nothing like it is today. 🍸🍹We were so glad to be back out of city and into the beautiful countryside🤠🌄
Tyler adore your passion and delight at discovering something you did not know. Should you ever visit these blessed Isles I would love to be your guide. May I? x
and I would love you to film it for us.
Really love birmingham, worth a visit
England and Wales has 2000 miles of navigable canals. Originally used for the transport of goods/coal before trains. Now used for pleasure and many people live on the canals in up market narrow boats.
great video thats all i can say thank you
I love Brum. It's a great city. Really lucky to only live a short train ride away.
Nice to see my city thanks for the reaction 🇬🇧✌️
You cannot buy real Cadbury's chocolate in America i have learned. You have a different version to the king of chocolate sold in the UK. 🇬🇧🇺🇸
Its made under licence by Hershey's in the States and tastes like vomit.
@@sjbict Yes i heard that. Many Americans love Cadbury's chocolate when they visit UK or sent to them on their reaction channels. 👍🇬🇧
When I go to Brum to visit my Brummy cousin, I usually go for a jog along the city centre canals.
You don't see any traffic so you're in a different world along the canals.
Brum is in West Midlands county and Warwickshire (pronounced Warrick-sheer) is the neighbouring county, famous for Shakespeare's Stratford upon Avon.
Brum is a great base for daily excursions out to dozens of other places in the region.
Very interesting. Some of my very Distant family are Brummies and it is great to see such a good video on a much missed out city. Try also the equivalent video on Manchester; also very interesting and beautiful if you like canals and industrial linked cities of England.
The history of our canals would be worth a dive into.
Excellent video!
Brummie are inhabitants of Birmingham which has more canal than Venice. We love our curries in Britain, and Birmingham has great Balti houses. It is also a university city so has a vibrant night life.
Check out Cornwall nicest beaches they are really nice you wouldn’t think it’s in England
As someone who was born and still lives in Cornwall we do so lucky to live here
*angry Devonian mumbles of disagreement*
Good old Bournville. My parents still live there. My dad worked at Cadbury up until his retirement. Very green and peaceful place to live.
My sister went to a medieval banquet at Warwick Castle (Worrick) a few years ago, where you get to dress up in period clothing and mock armour! 😮
You are one of my favourite Americans. I’m from Brum, and it is a great city with so many places close by x
Warwickshire is an english county, which covers the whole south west of Birmingham. What you looked at on the map is actually the town of Warwick after which the county is named. Warwickshire Cricket club is in Birmingham suburb Edgbaston only half a mile from Birmingham city Centre.
Before trucks they had to get things from place to place. Canal boat were at 1point pulled by horses and through tunnels ppl would 'leg it' to move the boats.
There is a network of canals throughout the U.K., you can travel around the whole country on a narrow boat, which would be a wonderful, and very leisurely, way to travel!
We have a clock like that here in Vancouver Canada but here its not just a clock its a steam clock too btw. its awesome and its right downtown in gastown! :D
You can travel almost anywhere in the country via canals. It was the main mode of industrial transport prior to the train.
The UK has over 2000 miles of cancal mostly built in the 1700's and 18oo'. Birmingham has more cancals than venice. The Wynn's (an American travel couple on UTube) recently undertook a canal boat trip on the Llangollen canal on the England/ Wales border.
Birmingham doesn't have more canals than Venice, but it does have more miles of canals: Venice 26 miles, Birmingham 35 miles.
The uk was connected by cannals and waterways before it was connected by rail and lastly paved road!
You can enter the canals in the very south of England and exit in Wales or (possibly, the arse end of) Scotland {you cant actually enter the Scottish canal network, just cross the border}
A large number of people live on the canals, either having a permanent berth or as a continuous crewser (move ~1km every 14 days, no return in 28days)
Before we invented the steam locomotive and the railways, we cut a great network of canals throughout the whole country so goods could be transported to other towns and cities and, of course, to the ports. That's why many towns and cities are built beside the water. We have more canals than Venice.
Wolverhampton just down road from me and Brum has so much going on!
And Birmingham has the biggest and best Christmas market too 🎉 always worth a visit 😁
The amount of school trips to Cadbury world I've been on is hilarious 😂 not to mention the Think-tank and Art museum
Am from near to Wolverhampton (so also not too far from Bham!) Love this video! So fun to watch you discover and learn about things that are so obvious to me living here! 😆 Although, it didn't seem to mention Wolves really, although, I can confirm that some of the B-roll shots were some streets in Wolverhampton rather than Birmingham. That shot from up high, that looked like The Cube (that building made up of plus signs!) which has a Marco Pierre White's restaurant at the top. That building with the silver domes, The Bull Ring, it's not a restaurant, it's a shopping centre/mall, which is linked to Grand Central train station (the shiny mirror building you might have noticed). Fun fact, you might have heard, but some of the new Mission Impossible movie was filmed in there! 😊 The aesthetic inside the station is a bit like an airport in the Middle East (Abu Dhabi I think?) so it was used for some shots. Also the empty John Lewis department store in there was used as 'base camp' and converted to look like a duty-free area for the film. 😊 Digbeth is definitely developing a lot in terms of the creative industry... The BBC is moving there from The Mailbox (a building made up of shops, offices, and restaurants in the same area/linked to The Cube), and we've also got Steve Knight, whose behind the TV programme Peaky Blinders, trying to get film studio space set up in the city too. 😊 A final thing, look up the interview between Alison Hammond, a local Brummie legend, and Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling on the TV programme This Morning in 2017 when they were promoting Blade Runner 2049. It's hilarious. The interview totally fell apart. But it's hilarious! 😆
I'm a Brummie that's what we are called if from Birmingham. Often called the Midlands, We have beautiful Canals where you can walk or go on a boat, I love the way Americans pronounce our city / town names. We have so much history in our City & as a Brummie ( that's what we call ourselves) are proud folk. Each city has a council not government but are part of our main government with members of Parliament. Its faggot & chips with mushy peas our local food. I live near Bournville where Cadbury factory is situated. I'm only 15min drive from sarehole Mill, I'm a total Tolkien fan. Birmingham has so much to show & offer visitors, forget London. 🇬🇧
That's the Green Man at the Custard Factory in Digbeth. You then had The Cube next to The Mailbox. Some footage was outside of Birmingham. In the Midlands.