I worked as a barrowboy in around 1981 on my uncles egg and poultry market stall outside of Woolworths.. I was 13 yo I loved it .. Long days could be very cold to in the winter..
@Only-one-life-68 I remember it well the other end they sold crockery love them days the council strangled access to the markets through transport access
@@garymwalton 100% Mate. I live near Brum and went there to get some of the imported games console software ( Megadrive etc ) in this time zone plus lived hear all my life. It was and always will be an Aladdin's cave of sheer innovation and brilliance. I literally loath modern times. Then it was all about the moment and good vibes with no egos or anything. How times have changed mate. I detest the way the High street shopping has gone.
I miss this place so much the noises, the aromas, the people. I worked in the Bull Ring fish market and I use to draw the crowds shouting" 2lb of cod 2 quid " I would sell out cod by the end of the day. Then when work was finished I'd be over by Moore street station supping at my favourite pub The Outrigger dancing to the Northern Soul... That was such a different world in which we lived.. :( Thanks for the trip down memory lane!!
Great story --How much revenue would you have brought in on a Saturday and what was your profit and the end of the day? Just really interested to know what it was like for a market seller back then. My uncle had a fish stall late 80s early nineties.
@@acquiesce100 I was only a sales assistant so the profit I'm not sure about, I can tell you I was on £100 a week back in 87, that was a modest wage for a 17 year old, I do remember working overtime one Christmas to pluck fresh turkeys, my boss said he'd give me a Christmas bonus when all the plucking had finished. After my £5 Christmas bonus and 8 hours of overtime, sometimes leaving the market after 22:30hrs, I decided it was my last time I'd work after 18:00, the day I left was a huge loss to my boss and my new bosses gain on the building sites.
@@Badger69-96£100 a week for a 17 year old back then was very good. I remember walking around the market with my dad always wondering how much the sellers were making and I bet it became harder as the supermarkets got bigger with more choice. Great story.
@@acquiesce100 you can only imagine how I must of felt earning £50 a day carrying the hod on a building site? I did meet some interesting people working at the Bull Ring, Graham Taylor was the manager of Aston Villa at the time was a regular on Wednesdays just as the market was starting to close he would come and stroll through...
@@Badger69-96 Ah wow. I would have been going down to the Villa around that time. I was only around 7-8. before I became a Man Utd Fan. Haa. Graham used to live in a house on Maney Corner for a while in Wylde Green as Aston Villa FC owned a few houses in Wylde Green which they used to let the players stay in. Steve Mcmahon had a house pretty much next door to him in the Boulevard. So it makes Sense Graham would come round the market. Happy days. I used to love catching the old diesel multiple unit trains from New Street back up to Sutton Coldfield. Just lovely days. Really dislike Town nowadays and always avoid it if I can.
I say, those were the days. Trip to the market on Tuesday afternoon with friends, the fish market, the donut shop by the stairs. Town is not the same anymore. The good old memories.
It was called the roller coaster at the other end of the row one of the best chippies under the chippie inches wall chilly Billy's and under the stairs we'll Harrison dairy eggs and cheese I can remember so much more
Love seeing this i left school in 1985 but I do remember around 1984. I would deliberately go down to the bullring outdoor market everywhere on a Saturday with my sister and brought oranges I did not want until the young lad Clive who worked on a particular fruit and veg stall asked me out. I didnt even like oranges. I thought he was so cool with his shaggy perm🤣🤣🤣 and he took me to see a rocky film. Wonderful times back then none of this gang violence and people robbing and raping and chopping up people. The city centre is horrible now. Im so thankful im not part of the younger generation. 70s and 80s were still brilliant.
There were also problems in 70s and 80s aswell with racism violence and football hooliganism violence. But ofcourse if it doesn't affect you than its all good you'd rather go back to that time even if it means other ppl will suffer.
@@ShaolinMeditator101Why would others suffer just because that person wanted to go back to that era ? Makes no sense whatsoever when you consider we have far more problems these days. Unbelievable.
Born and bred in Birmingham remember going to bull ring market with my parents when I was 8 I miss the way used to be good quality stuff that time in late 70s 80s 👌👌👌👌👌🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Couldn't have said it better. Then it was superior. The buzz of shopping and actually owning merch on the Day and seeing new people and buying super cool stuff. I LOATH modern Day shopping mate. Its utterly depressing to the point of vomit inducing. For instance the amount of security with egos stuck up there back sides. Had one follow me who must have been half my age mate when all I was doing was buying Christmas presents in WHSmith about 2 years ago in Brum. I felt like telling the cretin that I was witness to Brums best times and that people like Him make shopping a living Hell by following innocent hard working blokes around. I remember getting up early in the 80s to get to Brum...The smell of the morning cooking and breakfasts and then heading to Virgin megastore and the Games shop under it, Then richer sounds and comptazia which is now utterly rubbish. I went in there a few Years back and every single comic is perfectly situated on shelves in pristine order as iff no one is supposed to touch them unlike the 80s when there was so much good stuff in there. I utterly detest modern shopping. There is no way it will ever approach what we were privileged to witness. I went in there a few Years back and every single comic is perfectly situated on shelves in pristine order
What a wonderful video capturing the old bullring.. My family had a egg and chicken stall outside Woolworths. My uncle and mom used to work on a Friday and a Saturday.. William”Bill” and Maggie Griffiths. I’m 50yo know I was a barrow boy about 13 yo.. I loved it.. The other traders were so warm to one another even though they were competitors.. Things are so different today.. Thank you for the video.. Ps I remember the lady selling the flowers at the bottom off the ramp..
Birmingham has always been a shithole nothing special about the place always been ugly dump city no wonder the Government didn't care for the city and left it with years of austerity and cuts ,now its full of violent people and locals are rude and hostile.
@@WillScarlet1991pakistanis and Indians have always been there but i know what you mean, the city has become harsh, modern, expensive, the mass immigration, unsafe including London, what a mess
Aww, miss this old place. Hate the new one: too crowded, too 'glamorous', no character and no proper Brummies. Surely they could have tidied it up a bit without knocking it down? I feel sorry for the traders, they've been steadily pushed further and further away. Without the markets, Brum wouldn't have existed today.
Moz Fan, I agree wholeheartedly. Back then you could have spent an entire day in the markets & still not seen all there was to see. I hate the new look Bull Ring but worse is what they've done to New Street station. It's the biggest eyesore to be inflicted on our city centre since the travesty that is Selfridges.
The 2 men in the blue coats at 0.37 are Tom and Steve Hunt father and son they sold towels and bedding . I used to stand across from them selling shoes and slippers from 87 to 2000 . I used to drive down from Lancs every week and took great money then . Yes it was a shit hole but a lot of us traders were making good money and all cash . Johnny Mathews sold cakes and biscuits under the bridge at that time too
The sister's who sold the flower's,sold them for decades & I seen this one out last summer bless her,although I'm not up town a lot these day's since my health has deteriorated 😀
1988, I was just a young teenager, 14, best days, the city and country has changed in viewing it, the lov for your street, town and alike has gone, there is just empty people, no warmth, the olde skool people are a minority,
I did not enjoy going to the market because I hated, and still hate crowds, but I'd force myself because I knew that you got good quality food and bargain prices. The last time that I went, which was the year I retired, 2011, after a break of many years, I was appalled by the rubbish that was being sold at prices higher than I was paying in the supermarket. Stall after stall selling the same, and most of what I bought ended up in the bin as it started rotting after a couple of days. I'm not one for quoting "good old days", but the old market certainly was much better.
I'm from Birmingham and whilst I can see the nostalgia from watching this video there is no way from a visual point of view that the old bullring was better than the new one, maybe a better atmosphere back then if u were a market person but it was a concrete shit hole, I worked in the indoor market on A J Barlows and it's true that those kind of market stalls are nearly dead
Still dank and cold in the winter today, so all things considered I'd rather go back to those times. More cohesion nicer atmosphere, with the cold dank weather.
im only 20 with amazing taste but wow the difference back then and now is somewhat hurtful. Children under 18 either attended school or worked back then, and now we have the drug dealers and the gangs. Birmingham had class not anymore!
It was what we knew and it had a genuine feel that we belonged, a time that has long passed now there is just designer shops that has no feeling of what we once knew but we have memories .
takes me back. my dad was born sladepool rd maypole and even at 75 is a proud brummie. he settled in north lancs with my mum and on our regular visits back this is exactly how i remember the bullring and markets in the 80s
I used to work in digbeth wholesale markets i remember the old woman calling hear four bunches a pound, she used to come to our stall always trying to get flowers on the cheap, remember my boss always getting pissed off with her, he was an arsole anyway, lovely woman with her barrow boys
Marc VanHeemsbergen Hi I do too around 1982,my family had a egg and chicken stall outside Woolworths.. I’m 50yo know I was a barrow boy about 13 yo.. I loved it.. The other traders were so warm to one another even though they were competitors..
Feels like yesterday I was walking around there and it looking like that, but it has changed so much since. Edit: Who remembers Summit records upstairs, and Reddingtons at it's various sites? Tempest etc. Loved shopping for vinyl in Birmingham. I was doing photography as part of my art course and have some great photos from around the Bullring taken in 1985... people doing their chalk art on the streets and the onlookers.
My sister worked on the roundabout ride in the 70's by the King Kong, uncle and auntie ran stalls, and went school with the lad bagging fruit up near end of video wonder Paul is doing now, how things have changed. Can't stand the place now.
Great days. I can remember driving down New Street in my Peugeot 404 as sales rep for an IT company on a Friday evening. All the girls looking great at the Midland Hotel, all the lads in business suits. Later Bobby Browns, or Liberties. Sometimes the Dome. All gone now in this rotten, smartphone world.
When the New Bull Ring Opened in the early Noughtie's I was really excited, but it didn't last - I guess I prefer the more basic look it just felt more human and too over the top stylish.
Watch a programme called Something else from October 1979 Birmingham episode with fashions and the assembly on the Ramp and Corporation Street and the Studio eight minute nostalgia clip . Unlike today everything was accepted.
i used to walk around this place with my mom and nan, who have both passed away now it had such a buzz about it and the traders were ace, it should never have been knocked down they should have rejuvenated the place theres no character there now just hustle and bustle, only been to the new place twice never again, doesn't seem like brum anymore
Ahh.what a time that was .i miss them times these people .good atmosphere whats happend. I want to go back in this time. Miss it so much .England wasEngland.
Looks great things were better in those days never to be seen again I drive around the city last week as a lorry driver as of course thier were good ppl but the place and the respect for each other is gone
Was watching a video from 1977 but 1988 was more my time going for the first time with me dad as a little kid to get me video games of the market there was 2 stalls one at the front and one on the over side on the back 🧱 a young cockney bloke used to sell c64 games then later megadrive I had a relative that ran the fish market though not in the 80s it was the late 60s and 70s
I feel sorry for all Brummies around there. I visited Birmingham a while back and would not visit again. I would have visited it in the 80's. It is sad what your city and all cities have become. Another world to the one you remember with great fondness and sadness like mourning a dear old friend. It's called progress apparently. Oh to be a teenager then.
Not from Brom but used to go through there, every holiday back in the 1980s, bus station to New St station and it was an utter dump. Didn’t return for 20 years after about 86, and it had been transformed. Thank god
80s bham was ace.....now look at it.... full of trouble and silly weak gangs killin each other because of postcodes, pathetic. 80s will always be the best...better people, better place, better everythin.
People making sly racist comments need to seriously get a life. Coming from a Pakistani background i too remember these days going into town & it was nice for what it was but that's life things change no two days are the same so why people feel the need to make offensive comments especially those who are brown themselves is beyond me. Yes Birmingham has changed alot & is overpopulated & it affects us all no matter what background we come from. Just enjoy this video & be nice for a change.
Hey coccoman , sly comments , it's their country that's been invaded go back to packistan and give it big there , why come here ,for hand outs it's our land not yours you are a foriener , in some one else's country , if you don't like it don't watch , we will.have a oppinion wether you like it or not , thin skin arsehole
@@blumoon7274 The country wasn't invaded as you say. People were invited so have right to live here just like you do. Invading is what we did starting illegal wars.
Pakistanis and muslims are hated in Birmingham and west Midlands the locals are very racist and dont like Asians I noticed hence why areas are segregated and divided in Birmingham especially.
Why would I need to travel to the middle east to know that? We have this thing called the internet that lets people in on things without them actually having to be there!
@@WillScarlet1991 he's not vile you are , racist comes in all colours , open your fucking eyes , look what's happening to England arsehole , now piss off
I want to go back to the 1980s, it was all so much better....thanks for uploading.
i totally agree i was born 1977 but i enjoyed going into Birmingham in the old days with my family
I worked as a barrowboy in around 1981 on my uncles egg and poultry market stall outside of Woolworths..
I was 13 yo I loved it ..
Long days could be very cold to in the winter..
Apart from thatcher
@Only-one-life-68 I remember it well the other end they sold crockery love them days the council strangled access to the markets through transport access
@@Only-one-life-68I’d prefer that even in cold rainy weather than in a modern depressing retail job
Wish I could go back in time. Seems like this is the closest to a time machine I'll get to. Thank you uploader.
Exactly.. quite a shame really. .. all we have is a computer screen
Feel the same way. I'd love to live the rest of my life out in this time zone. Everything now is pure misery.
I couldn't agree more. I have a pretty good life now, but I miss the vibe of the 1980s....it was definitely better
@@garymwalton 100% Mate. I live near Brum and went there to get some of the imported games console software ( Megadrive etc ) in this time zone plus lived hear all my life. It was and always will be an Aladdin's cave of sheer innovation and brilliance. I literally loath modern times.
Then it was all about the moment and good vibes with no egos or anything.
How times have changed mate.
I detest the way the High street shopping has gone.
agree these videos are great reminds me of the old days
My happy days 😌
I hate going into town now.
Good old days 👌 the city centre had actual soul and character, including the folks back then, family spirit atmosphere ❤️👍
Funny I don't remember any of that. I can remember the smell of wee all round the place
I miss this place so much the noises, the aromas, the people. I worked in the Bull Ring fish market and I use to draw the crowds shouting" 2lb of cod 2 quid " I would sell out cod by the end of the day. Then when work was finished I'd be over by Moore street station supping at my favourite pub The Outrigger dancing to the Northern Soul... That was such a different world in which we lived.. :(
Thanks for the trip down memory lane!!
Great story --How much revenue would you have brought in on a Saturday and what was your profit and the end of the day? Just really interested to know what it was like for a market seller back then. My uncle had a fish stall late 80s early nineties.
@@acquiesce100 I was only a sales assistant so the profit I'm not sure about, I can tell you I was on £100 a week back in 87, that was a modest wage for a 17 year old, I do remember working overtime one Christmas to pluck fresh turkeys, my boss said he'd give me a Christmas bonus when all the plucking had finished.
After my £5 Christmas bonus and 8 hours of overtime, sometimes leaving the market after 22:30hrs, I decided it was my last time I'd work after 18:00, the day I left was a huge loss to my boss and my new bosses gain on the building sites.
@@Badger69-96£100 a week for a 17 year old back then was very good. I remember walking around the market with my dad always wondering how much the sellers were making and I bet it became harder as the supermarkets got bigger with more choice. Great story.
@@acquiesce100 you can only imagine how I must of felt earning £50 a day carrying the hod on a building site?
I did meet some interesting people working at the Bull Ring, Graham Taylor was the manager of Aston Villa at the time was a regular on Wednesdays just as the market was starting to close he would come and stroll through...
@@Badger69-96 Ah wow. I would have been going down to the Villa around that time. I was only around 7-8. before I became a Man Utd Fan. Haa. Graham used to live in a house on Maney Corner for a while in Wylde Green as Aston Villa FC owned a few houses in Wylde Green which they used to let the players stay in. Steve Mcmahon had a house pretty much next door to him in the Boulevard. So it makes Sense Graham would come round the market. Happy days. I used to love catching the old diesel multiple unit trains from New Street back up to Sutton Coldfield. Just lovely days. Really dislike Town nowadays and always avoid it if I can.
I say, those were the days. Trip to the market on Tuesday afternoon with friends, the fish market, the donut shop by the stairs. Town is not the same anymore. The good old memories.
That place that cooked the doughnuts... all the steam from the shop !... Great atmosphere back then
It was called the roller coaster at the other end of the row one of the best chippies under the chippie inches wall chilly Billy's and under the stairs we'll Harrison dairy eggs and cheese I can remember so much more
Love seeing this i left school in 1985 but I do remember around 1984. I would deliberately go down to the bullring outdoor market everywhere on a Saturday with my sister and brought oranges I did not want until the young lad Clive who worked on a particular fruit and veg stall asked me out. I didnt even like oranges. I thought he was so cool with his shaggy perm🤣🤣🤣 and he took me to see a rocky film. Wonderful times back then none of this gang violence and people robbing and raping and chopping up people. The city centre is horrible now. Im so thankful im not part of the younger generation. 70s and 80s were still brilliant.
There were also problems in 70s and 80s aswell with racism violence and football hooliganism violence. But ofcourse if it doesn't affect you than its all good you'd rather go back to that time even if it means other ppl will suffer.
@@ShaolinMeditator101Why would others suffer just because that person wanted to go back to that era ? Makes no sense whatsoever when you consider we have far more problems these days. Unbelievable.
Born and bred in Birmingham remember going to bull ring market with my parents when I was 8 I miss the way used to be good quality stuff that time in late 70s 80s 👌👌👌👌👌🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
toys r us days
The place had character in those days. Modern shops just haven't got the same warmth to them.
I have to agree with you
Totally agree,I keep saying towns got no character now.
Couldn't have said it better.
Then it was superior.
The buzz of shopping and actually owning merch on the Day and seeing new people and buying super cool stuff.
I LOATH modern Day shopping mate.
Its utterly depressing to the point of vomit inducing.
For instance the amount of security with egos stuck up there back sides.
Had one follow me who must have been half my age mate when all I was doing was buying Christmas presents in WHSmith about 2 years ago in Brum.
I felt like telling the cretin that I was witness to Brums best times and that people like Him make shopping a living Hell by following innocent hard working blokes around.
I remember getting up early in the 80s to get to Brum...The smell of the morning cooking and breakfasts and then heading to Virgin megastore and the Games shop under it, Then richer sounds and comptazia which is now utterly rubbish.
I went in there a few Years back and every single comic is perfectly situated on shelves in pristine order as iff no one is supposed to touch them unlike the 80s when there was so much good stuff in there.
I utterly detest modern shopping.
There is no way it will ever approach what we were privileged to witness.
I went in there a few Years back and every single comic is perfectly situated on shelves in pristine order
Your words have wisdom mate @@zark212
What a wonderful video capturing the old bullring..
My family had a egg and chicken stall outside Woolworths.
My uncle and mom used to work on a Friday and a Saturday..
William”Bill” and Maggie Griffiths.
I’m 50yo know I was a barrow boy about 13 yo..
I loved it..
The other traders were so warm to one another even though they were competitors..
Things are so different today..
Thank you for the video..
Ps I remember the lady selling the flowers at the bottom off the ramp..
These really were good times ..Birmingham now is the worst City in UK.I was born and bred here but loath everything about it
You should come to Bradford 😁
Birmingham has always been a shithole nothing special about the place always been ugly dump city no wonder the Government didn't care for the city and left it with years of austerity and cuts ,now its full of violent people and locals are rude and hostile.
Always been a dump Birmingham.
@@WillScarlet1991pakistanis and Indians have always been there but i know what you mean, the city has become harsh, modern, expensive, the mass immigration, unsafe including London, what a mess
Could people who have vhs videos of the 70s 80s 90s 2000s put them on UA-cam please. Many thanks
Memories...that was best times of our lives 🙏🙏💯
I was born in 75,this is the town is knew!I loved it,remember the flower lady well.Its all changed, wish I could go back.
I was 9. I remember going all round here with my mom
And family. The memories are insane and the speed at how life is passing is even more so
Amazing
omg I remember that woman selling the flowers .... I love the bull ring like this it was real not ponzy like now .
Everything just looks better.
Aww, miss this old place. Hate the new one: too crowded, too 'glamorous', no character and no proper Brummies. Surely they could have tidied it up a bit without knocking it down?
I feel sorry for the traders, they've been steadily pushed further and further away. Without the markets, Brum wouldn't have existed today.
Yes definitely no character now!
Moz Fan, I agree wholeheartedly. Back then you could have spent an entire day in the markets & still not seen all there was to see. I hate the new look Bull Ring but worse is what they've done to New Street station. It's the biggest eyesore to be inflicted on our city centre since the travesty that is Selfridges.
It’s all about big business sadly..
They aren’t interested in the traders..
I suppose that’s evolution
390h8er the world moves on, it’s the best that could happen for your city tbh
Totally agree ❤
The 2 men in the blue coats at 0.37 are Tom and Steve Hunt father and son they sold towels and bedding . I used to stand across from them selling shoes and slippers from 87 to 2000 . I used to drive down from Lancs every week and took great money then . Yes it was a shit hole but a lot of us traders were making good money and all cash . Johnny Mathews sold cakes and biscuits under the bridge at that time too
Great quality, I was 18. Like stepping back in time.....to good times , thank you x
Thanks. It was shot on u-matic. Cutting edge at the time 😁
Great video brought a tear to my eye
I loved the bullring market in the 80s, thanks.
Excellent video brings back my memories of past.
The sister's who sold the flower's,sold them for decades & I seen this one out last summer bless her,although I'm not up town a lot these day's since my health has deteriorated 😀
❤
What ?? The same lady seen here was still selling flowers 30 years later ?? She must have been nearly 100 !!
I remember that flower lady from way back very well, I was amazed to see her near the new Rag Market when I returned to Brum for a visit in the 00's 😮
I used to shop in mark one haha get my outfit for town on the night and my impulse those was the days of boogies wine bar and Edwards no 7
And The Dome.
This is some decent video camera for the 80's, my phone camera isn't this clear 😒
So true
Just how much I love and miss U my beloved Bir.
The best decade for me. It was awsome when though we never had as much as they so now we were happier.
absolutely superb! I remember the flower seller..4 buches a pound! great memories.
I do too around 1982
As I was a barrow boy for my family
They sold eggs and chickens on a stall outside Woolworths
Great I’m 50yo know..
@@Only-one-life-68 my family sold fruit and veg. My grandad was percy.
Think died in last 10 year, flower lady she was nice
never be the same again
Nope it will never ever be again, never ;)
rich turner true
@@riyadh5100+ Just take away everyones' phones, cancel the internet, and we'll be right back 😊
True 😣 The good old days 😁
People would pay a fortune for those jeans with cartoon characters on them
1988, I was just a young teenager, 14, best days, the city and country has changed in viewing it, the lov for your street, town and alike has gone, there is just empty people, no warmth, the olde skool people are a minority,
Agreed ❤ it's sad because this cold deceptive emptiness is with social media too, it all began mid 2000s 😮😢
I did not enjoy going to the market because I hated, and still hate crowds, but I'd force myself because I knew that you got good quality food and bargain prices. The last time that I went, which was the year I retired, 2011, after a break of many years, I was appalled by the rubbish that was being sold at prices higher than I was paying in the supermarket. Stall after stall selling the same, and most of what I bought ended up in the bin as it started rotting after a couple of days. I'm not one for quoting "good old days", but the old market certainly was much better.
4 bunches a pound.... how much are they now ? 4 pound a bunch ffs
I'm from Birmingham and whilst I can see the nostalgia from watching this video there is no way from a visual point of view that the old bullring was better than the new one, maybe a better atmosphere back then if u were a market person but it was a concrete shit hole, I worked in the indoor market on A J Barlows and it's true that those kind of market stalls are nearly dead
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It seemed impressive when it first opened, as this 1965 film shows: ua-cam.com/video/aWglgu--Wvc/v-deo.html
@@ajs41 I understand that it would have been impressive at the time, it just didn't age very well lol
Dark, dank and cold in the winter, not much cheerier in the summer. Nostalgia is great when there's no chance of returning to it.
good point
Nothing wrong with wanting to go back 😊
Still dank and cold in the winter today, so all things considered I'd rather go back to those times. More cohesion nicer atmosphere, with the cold dank weather.
im only 20 with amazing taste but wow the difference back then and now is somewhat hurtful. Children under 18 either attended school or worked back then, and now we have the drug dealers and the gangs. Birmingham had class not anymore!
Great days.all the old characters died when they rebuilt it.never the same again.
It was what we knew and it had a genuine feel that we belonged, a time that has long passed now there is just designer shops that has no feeling of what we once knew but we have memories .
I remember someone stealing my Kubricks Cube at the markets, 1981 I think . Cried my eyes out !
I love this video
It was the best day ever
One thing not changed the litter on the streets of Birmingham.
takes me back. my dad was born sladepool rd maypole and even at 75 is a proud brummie. he settled in north lancs with my mum and on our regular visits back this is exactly how i remember the bullring and markets in the 80s
I loved the old bullring.
Back then we were all britains having a good time now its flooded with pick pockets from europe
Lots of crooks there now
Agreed far too many polish gangsters
I agree it’s not the same anymore it’s lost it’s character it was basic and beautiful once upon a time.
The place had character back then. Soul-less monstrosity now.
This is pretty excellent quality for a 1980's camcorder.
Thanks. it was shot on lo-band u-matic.
Birmingham has always been WEIRD. Only now it’s actually sad
sanjay j you’re both the same person...
sanjay j if progressive means kiss Asians arses making them feel good and hate white people then no it isnt
Depression is the word in Birmingham ugly grey run down city full of drugs , poverty and crime.
Its rubbish now
Modern and angry
Loved the the market indoor and outdoor. 👍
I used to work in digbeth wholesale markets i remember the old woman calling hear four bunches a pound, she used to come to our stall always trying to get flowers on the cheap, remember my boss always getting pissed off with her, he was an arsole anyway, lovely woman with her barrow boys
Marc VanHeemsbergen
Hi I do too around 1982,my family had a egg and chicken stall outside Woolworths..
I’m 50yo know I was a barrow boy about 13 yo..
I loved it..
The other traders were so warm to one another even though they were competitors..
I think that the woman selling the flowers is florrie hart.
Did you work at the triplex sports and social club in 2001 with Chris speakman
@@Only-one-life-68 my mistake it was katie Kelly aka one of the Sutton family
Things move on not always in a good way
Happy days though I wouldn't go now!
I am from Birmingham, so I'm so sad watching this film i miss the old Birmingham
Atmosphere and character...where.s it all gone ?
There isn't any character or charm Birmingham has always been depressing dump worse today.
Cellphones, feminism, and dating apps
Oh wow I remember that 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Its great that it was recorded for historical fact....how life has advanced now....UBER ....who would ever imagine...?
oh i miss this so much.
Feels like yesterday I was walking around there and it looking like that, but it has changed so much since. Edit: Who remembers Summit records upstairs, and Reddingtons at it's various sites? Tempest etc. Loved shopping for vinyl in Birmingham. I was doing photography as part of my art course and have some great photos from around the Bullring taken in 1985... people doing their chalk art on the streets and the onlookers.
So sad to see what they have done to our beloved town now stupid trams, clean air zones, mega structures, town will never be the same again.
My sister worked on the roundabout ride in the 70's by the King Kong, uncle and auntie ran stalls, and went school with the lad bagging fruit up near end of video wonder Paul is doing now, how things have changed. Can't stand the place now.
Great days. I can remember driving down New Street in my Peugeot 404 as sales rep for an IT company on a Friday evening. All the girls looking great at the Midland Hotel, all the lads in business suits. Later Bobby Browns, or Liberties. Sometimes the Dome. All gone now in this rotten, smartphone world.
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@@bensims7501 😁😁😁
@@bensims7501but does he have a choice whilst using his cellphone, 😮
When the New Bull Ring Opened in the early Noughtie's I was really excited, but it didn't last - I guess I prefer the more basic look it just felt more human and too over the top stylish.
Man that’s my childhood right there how we wish we could go back
Watch a programme called Something else from October 1979 Birmingham episode with fashions and the assembly on the Ramp and Corporation Street and the Studio eight minute nostalgia clip . Unlike today everything was accepted.
i used to walk around this place with my mom and nan, who have both passed away now it had such a buzz about it and the traders were ace, it should never have been knocked down they should have rejuvenated the place theres no character there now just hustle and bustle, only been to the new place twice never again, doesn't seem like brum anymore
Old Birmingham City Centre was the best don't like the new one
Ahh.what a time that was .i miss them times these people .good atmosphere whats happend.
I want to go back in this time.
Miss it so much .England wasEngland.
Gd old days 🙌🙌😊
love brimgham
No phones , headphones , internet beautiful old days wish i could go back in 90's
Good people then,
@@lillianflorence6056 yes man
My goodness! Look how busy it was, compared to the ghost town it is now.
Looks great things were better in those days never to be seen again I drive around the city last week as a lorry driver as of course thier were good ppl but the place and the respect for each other is gone
Aww. Happy days
I was only 8yrs old in 1988, I remember the ugly clothes in fashion and going to the Bull Ring with my mom😁
the flower seller at 0:30 is still around today!
She has recently passed away www.itv.com/news/central/2016-06-21/tributes-paid-to-birminghams-my-fair-lady-flower-girl/
+Gill Warr ty so sad i was from northfield not the same no more and i was born 78
This is great! Good old Mark One with its rainbow colours inside :D (or was that in the 90's?)
Also this is great quality for the time :)
All the young men/women are middled aged people today
alot in the grave and never repented
The whole country is middle aged now including me every where you look just old bags ...feel for the young people
I'm 60 years old now, but the 70s 80s were great times to be young, used to always be over brum in those days.
RIP BIRMINGHAM
god it looked dirty back then
yes it was just starting to get very BLACK
Birmingham still dirty and ugly today no matter how much you fix it.
@@mcc9887 Racist.
Yes i was, I remember it well. But so much more Character than the new BullRing
Worse now , pick pockets,
Happy days for me...No immigration issues here 🤔🤔
Why is immigrantion an issue?
@@PodcastCentral333 coz hes a white man
Loads of whites in Birmingham idiot, races dont mix or get on in Birmingham so who cares segregated city.
@@PodcastCentral333 Does that need to be explained? A walk through modern Brum will give you the answers you are looking for.
Birmingham has become Crime riddled, decadent, arrogant
at 37 seconds at the watch stand is a young martin bailey in the dell boy sheep skin now works in hobs moat solihull.
i will never go to Birmingham center again just so Dangerous....;NEVER
@sam mark where are you from sam
@sam mark Why is everybody racist on your comments?
@sam marky shit generations av come of age that’s why
Full of chavs and trouble makers in Birmingham nothing new.
Was watching a video from 1977 but 1988 was more my time going for the first time with me dad as a little kid to get me video games of the market there was 2 stalls one at the front and one on the over side on the back 🧱 a young cockney bloke used to sell c64 games then later megadrive I had a relative that ran the fish market though not in the 80s it was the late 60s and 70s
I see the streets were filthy then just as they are now, rubbish everywhere
It looks so shit, there was a hell of an upgrade.
What year did this Bull ring last until?
It was closed in 1999 before being demolished to makeway for the New Bullring
you can tell jeans were in fashion
I feel sorry for all Brummies around there. I visited Birmingham a while back and would not visit again. I would have visited it in the 80's. It is sad what your city and all cities have become. Another world to the one you remember with great fondness and sadness like mourning a dear old friend. It's called progress apparently. Oh to be a teenager then.
fucking depressing
Not from Brom but used to go through there, every holiday back in the 1980s, bus station to New St station and it was an utter dump. Didn’t return for 20 years after about 86, and it had been transformed. Thank god
80s bham was ace.....now look at it.... full of trouble and silly weak gangs killin each other because of postcodes, pathetic. 80s will always be the best...better people, better place, better everythin.
😲 white people 😲 in Birmingham? 😲
Racist ones then and these days too nothing changes in Birmingham and West Midlands.
Chavs in Birmingham these days.
Most people racist today,
From when it was the Bull Ring rather than Bullring.
All that denim 😂
Interesting vid i remember bull ring like this but it looks much better now, why get nostelgic over a run down shopping area.
People making sly racist comments need to seriously get a life. Coming from a Pakistani background i too remember these days going into town & it was nice for what it was but that's life things change no two days are the same so why people feel the need to make offensive comments especially those who are brown themselves is beyond me. Yes Birmingham has changed alot & is overpopulated & it affects us all no matter what background we come from. Just enjoy this video & be nice for a change.
Hey coccoman , sly comments , it's their country that's been invaded go back to packistan and give it big there , why come here ,for hand outs it's our land not yours you are a foriener , in some one else's country , if you don't like it don't watch , we will.have a oppinion wether you like it or not , thin skin arsehole
Blu Moon what else do you struggle with?
@@blumoon7274 The country wasn't invaded as you say. People were invited so have right to live here just like you do. Invading is what we did starting illegal wars.
Pakistanis and muslims are hated in Birmingham and west Midlands the locals are very racist and dont like Asians I noticed hence why areas are segregated and divided in Birmingham especially.
Whites hate Pakistanis and Indians in Birmingham and West Midlands I noticed .
The last time I went to Birmingham, less than 5 years ago, it might as well have been somewhere in the middle east!
Paintbrush 1962 i trust you have been to the middle east in order to make such a comparison?
Why would I need to travel to the middle east to know that? We have this thing called the internet that lets people in on things without them actually having to be there!
@@wulfhere83+ You're a vile piece of racist ****.
@@WillScarlet1991 he's not vile you are , racist comes in all colours , open your fucking eyes , look what's happening to England arsehole , now piss off
@@WillScarlet1991 What a bizarre comment. What's racist about comparing the demographics of one country with another ?
wow i remember brum like this