I drove through Smethwick yesterday and you can tell it was once a nice place with its Victorian from fronts and terraces with a few bigger more upmarket houses I places how nice it must of been before to 3rd world took over the only white people I saw were either polish, mentally impaired,smack heads begging at traffic lights or a prostitute standing on a corner at 10:30 in the morning.Smethwick is a show case of what the rest of Britain as to look forward too😢
Sold us out so the rich could become richer and send our industries abroad. While everything has changed and not for the better. We needed change but its gone to far now to get it back. So Sad.
Not from Smethwick, but lived and drank there (early 90's to 2000) on the way to The Albion; have to say, I only recognise 30% of the pics. Very fond memories.
@@Athea_khan Think what he means is you can go back and visit your homogenous ancestral homeland any time you like, ours has been destroyed with multiculturalism without our consent, now the indigenous Brits are becoming ethnic minorities in their own country.
Looking at all those factories makes me feel so sad. I am convinced that the dirty air of 1960s Smethwick was the cause of my sister's death from asthma, as we lived directly opposite one that used to churn out black smoke on a daily basis. Even the nappies that my mom used to put out to dry would sometimes turn black with the smog. 😪
Amazing pictute at 2.14. 23 shilling a week, for tough labouring no doubt, Thats what my dad did, uproot from Smethwick to Bristol ( Aeroplane company) but in 1955.
That's Albion junior school opposite the Hawthornes, at 2:20. Off camera you have Thomas Telford High School. Both schools served the local community. These two schools have been demolished and replaced by Sandwell Academy which does not serve the local community.
@@browneyedgirl4268 nah ya wrong....when i say ruined im talkin the area, the people, the loyalty, the peacfullness, the atmpospher, the friendships, the jobs ect....if u think its like that now then u completly wrong....me whole fam was bron n bred smethwick and it def aint the same...in a bad way....its a right dive now...full of rubbish everywhere and foreigners causing crap...seen it with me own eyes more then once.
@@smofla13 You have just offended the best half of my family with your description of 'foreigners'. My dad came here from the Caribbean in the early 1960s.
Pity there are so few captions, I didn't recognise much. I bought a very good hardback book of Smethwick photographs, mostly Edwardian. Great photo looking up Cheshire road from top and bottom, when trees lined all the way, both sides., Great pics of the Council house too etc.
I drove through Smethwick yesterday and you can tell it was once a nice place with its Victorian from fronts and terraces with a few bigger more upmarket houses I places how nice it must of been before to 3rd world took over the only white people I saw were either polish, mentally impaired,smack heads begging at traffic lights or a prostitute standing on a corner at 10:30 in the morning.Smethwick is a show case of what the rest of Britain as to look forward too😢
What about cape Hill brewery
Sold us out so the rich could become richer and send our industries abroad. While everything has changed and not for the better. We needed change but its gone to far now to get it back. So Sad.
Wow I was born in smethwick bearwood. Such memories 😊
Puffing billy
@@davidbradley4602 yeh. Hussar. Puffing Billy. Seven Sisters. Brum was a great place man
Does anyone have photos of Edith Sands Primary School or Brasshouse Lane Infants School?
Not from Smethwick, but lived and drank there (early 90's to 2000) on the way to The Albion; have to say, I only recognise 30% of the pics. Very fond memories.
Thank you as I was born here in 1936 so thanks for the memories…
England never stood a chance. RIP.
What is that supposed to mean? BTW I'm from smethwick
@@Athea_khan Think what he means is you can go back and visit your homogenous ancestral homeland any time you like, ours has been destroyed with multiculturalism without our consent, now the indigenous Brits are becoming ethnic minorities in their own country.
time for england to get diluted mate 😂😂😂😂😂
@@careytitan9097i genuinely hope your fears become a reality. its the least you deserve
india and pakistan people fucked up this bham area.horible .what emigrants doing...
Look so caucasian before the takeover and overpopulation.
Yes it was an homogenous country back then, now white British are becoming an ethnic minority in their own country and homeland.
Lol u taking the piss ????
Looking at all those factories makes me feel so sad. I am convinced that the dirty air of 1960s Smethwick was the cause of my sister's death from asthma, as we lived directly opposite one that used to churn out black smoke on a daily basis. Even the nappies that my mom used to put out to dry would sometimes turn black with the smog. 😪
The colour photo of Tangye's being demolished is my copyright. It was taken around 1966 and is a scanned colour slide.
Amazing pictute at 2.14. 23 shilling a week, for tough labouring no doubt, Thats what my dad did, uproot from Smethwick to Bristol ( Aeroplane company) but in 1955.
Looks like nothing changed...still a dump
I lived in Cheshire road for 4 years, 1950--54.best school years of my life, at Uplands Rd.
ask for danny g
WHAT was the music called
Limelight ... by Charlie Chaplin.
That's Albion junior school opposite the Hawthornes, at 2:20. Off camera you have Thomas Telford High School. Both schools served the local community. These two schools have been demolished and replaced by Sandwell Academy which does not serve the local community.
now look at smethwick....ruined completly.
Naturally
It was ruined when it was built
It was always ruined. Don't miss the dirty smog from the old days. My elderly aunt reminded me of that when I spoke to her a couple of days ago.
@@browneyedgirl4268 nah ya wrong....when i say ruined im talkin the area, the people, the loyalty, the peacfullness, the atmpospher, the friendships, the jobs ect....if u think its like that now then u completly wrong....me whole fam was bron n bred smethwick and it def aint the same...in a bad way....its a right dive now...full of rubbish everywhere and foreigners causing crap...seen it with me own eyes more then once.
@@smofla13 You have just offended the best half of my family with your description of 'foreigners'. My dad came here from the Caribbean in the early 1960s.
I enjoyed that. Smethwick born and bred.
Pity there are so few captions, I didn't recognise much. I bought a very good hardback book of Smethwick photographs, mostly Edwardian. Great photo looking up Cheshire road from top and bottom, when trees lined all the way, both sides., Great pics of the Council house too etc.
Halal candy corner is the first pichure