Walking in BIRMINGHAM / England (UK) 🇬🇧- 4K 60fps (UHD)
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- čas přidán 14. 02. 2020
- Birmingham in England’s West Midlands region is a major city with a history in the industrial revolution. The city is less popular among tourists though is conveniently located between Oxford and Liverpool as a stopover.
We start our Birmingham city tour at the St. Martin in the Bull Ring and near the futuristic Selfridges department store. We take a quick stroll over the Bullring Open Market before we enter the city centre. Next we walk around China Town and also check out Grand Central. After the shopping area we head a bit out of central Birmingham and eventually return to the St. Philip's Cathedral in the city centre.
There is more to see so we head to Victoria Square with the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery and Town Hall there. It is getting late. It's time to return to where we started walking on the New Street which is also a major hotel and shopping area.
We end our evening tour about where we started with a nice view of the cathedral St. Martin in the Bull Ring.
Filmed in October 2019
Camera: Osmo Pocket in 4K60
Mic: Zoom H1
#poptravel #birmingham #uk
These videos are the best way to feel the city
Wonderful walk, and great video quality! Big thanks from New York.
Fantastic. Thank you so much for uploading this.I used to walk those same streets 1978-1987 working in the City Centre. The most obvious change is the amount of shops selling take away food. Excellent video and fantastic quality,well done ✅
This video is very well done, thank you. Looking for a good Birmingham video for a long time
Thanks for uploading. Birmingham is my home town and because I was feeling homesick,this was the perfect way to view my city. I live in the U.S.A now, but nothing could compare to Bullring shopping.
I'm with you Raine... Birmingham is where I was born but I live in Sydney now. The video was great to watch but made me feel like I want to see it all again.
Go back to Birmingham, it's better than the rubbish-heap known as America.
@@philhare4439 Havent gone to Birmingham hoping to go in Sept for 2 days looks so nice any thing I shouldnt miss
0:05 Selfridges in the Bullring: Opened in 2003, Selfridges in Bullring was designed by Jan Kaplicky and Amanda Levete. Costing a total of £60 million to construct, the building won the RIBA Award for Architecture in 2004. Interestingly, many people now credit Selfridges as being one of the first major examples of ‘Blobitecture’ with many similar style buildings soon following suit.
25:21 Birmingham's New Street station. The design by AZPML - headed up by architects Zaera-Polo and Maider Llaguno - features a reflective stainless-steel facade that wraps around the existing 1960s station building, with a giant new atrium in the centre.
you did an awesome job here...this felt like a movie...thumbs up!
Thank you! There are now over 200 videos on this channel in the same style so you may find other places that interest you in the playlists: czcams.com/users/poptravelorgplaylists
Nice walk. I've often heard of Birmingham but never knew much about it. Cool to see it (nearly) first hand. Thanks for taking us along. -Henry
A lot of people make fun of Birmingham but its a city with many friendly people and beautiful buildings and parks
@xwinniez No it is not dangerous at all, you have been listening to too many lies. Birmingham is perfectly safe.
@xwinniez all major cities have thier bad neighbourhoods. Saying that I live in one of Birminghams bad ones 😂 😂 Handsworth
@xwinniez Bourneville, Selly Oak, kings Norton, Great Barr, Hampstead, Acocks Green, Castle Bromwich, Hodge Hill, Shard End, Kitts Green, Moseley, Yardley, Sheldon, Edgebaston, Harbourne,Yardley Wood,Quinton,Frankley, Rubery, Lickey, Longbridge, Hollywood, California, ( yes they are districts of Birmingham), Bartley Green, Queslett, Erdington, Handworth Wood, New Oscott, Boldmere, Wylde Green, Bromford, Castle Vale, Minworth, Stechford, Gravelly Hill, Stockland Green, Roughley,Four Oaks, Streetly, Hill Hook, Hardwick, Walmley, Tile Cross, Hall Green, Stirchley, Billesley, Tyburn, Gravelly Hill, Short Heath, Perry Barr, Hawkesley, Bordesley Freenand Sutton, 53 decent districts of Birmingham. These are all decent districts of Birmingham.
@Abdurahman O Why is that, there is no night life except a few wine bars and restaurants, and not much in visitor attractions, it has its own problems with Kingshurst and Chelmsley wood, plus in the boundary reorganisations of the mid 1970's solihull was nearly taken over by Birmingham like sutton coldfield was, but some how Solihull escaped being taken over by Birmingham.
Amazing, wonderful, knowledgeable, unforgettable
Many thanks for amazing video 🙏💯
Good job! Thank you!!!!!!
39:38 *Birmingham's Children Hospital* Located on the University Campus in Edgbaston, is very historical and am glad to see how lovely it is kept. Beautiful location.
The Birmingham Children's Hospital is at the Bottom of Corporation Street opposite the old Central Fire Station in what was the old Victorian General Hospital not on the University Campus in Edgbaston. That is the Queen Elizabeth University Medical Centre.
Used to live there, this was quite nostalgic for me.
LOVE THIS CITY !!
Nice video it was awseome
Birmingham looks like a vibrant city, and very modern! Greetings from Italy 🇮🇹
Although the city is quite modern the layout is old, something that is quite different from North American cities , where it’s grid pattern. It gives interesting walks because of the curvature or irregularity of the street pattern, and also the mix of old and new buildings one sees. In all, a very interesting city to walk through with a good energy.
Nice video 👍
Some of the nicest parts of Birmingham is around St pauls Square in the Jewellary quarter, lovely part of the city. It is a shame that people just stay within the Bullring/Shopping area of the city as this isn't the nicest part of Birmingham and then people miss out. There is so much more to this city than the Bullring and around Victoria Square. Nice Video though ;-)
Agree I'm from Nottingham. Brum is fab ... missed off a lot of it here. Brindley, the canal the new square etc
@Lewis Davis You are entitled to your opinion mate. Brum is not to every bodies taste.
I was there in december 2019 - january 2020 nice place 👍
LOL I don't think I've ever heard the word "nice" being used to refer to Birmingham before.
I. Missed handsworth Birmingham city loved.
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Peaky Blinders country! Thanks for the tour. :)
Sorry to disappoint you there is no such things as peaky blinders in Brum, they did not exist. Check any history book on Brum and you will read of pick pocket gangs but not Peaky Blinders, just a silly TV series. The only place that gangs walked around threatening people with sub machine guns over their shoulders would be Chicago in the USA in the 1920'2 /30's. Besides it was not filmed in Birmingham, it was filmed in Liverpool and the Black Country Museum in Dudley.
Was in Brum yesterday was nice
Born & bread brummie still love it never leave even tho got a bad reputation lately, I remember the old bull ring
@Ryan Jan where do u want to move to in Birmingham
@Ryan Jan stabbings shootings the usual like other places but there are good and bad places in Birmingham
@Ryan Jan worcester nice, Droitwich, some places in Bromsgrove, I live Longbridge it's ok, redditch is ok, Alvechurch nice ,........ But avoid alum rock, sparkbrook, Handsworth sparkhill, ladywood, Highgate, Balsall heath, mosley, Northfield, Rubery, wychal, pool farm I'll get bk to u on more
King's Norton ok, some of King's heath ok, Yardley Wood some places ok, avoid Winson green too, some places in druids heath ok, Hall Green some places ok, avoid Sheldon, Solihull ok, Shirley ok well some parts,
Avoid West Heath I was brought up their its gone down hill which is sad
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Birmingham, my "Brummie" grandmother’s hometown. A city rebuilt after the WWII and shattered (so she said) in the '60s-'70s ... nowadays it’s sad and ugly, really ugly overall. If she could see it ... maybe not!!!
Yes when your Grandmother was alive Birmingham was a stinky, smog ridden, slum infested and Bomb Cratered city during the 1950's and late 1960's, I grew up in the Saltley area when I was a child and I witnessed Birmingham's rebirth with its massive slum clearance. It is now a greener modern City with fantastic Entertainment, Restaurants, places to visit, loads of fantastic parks and Birmingham has the highest % of greenery per land mass in the country worthy of being the UK's second largest city, so not sure exactly how you think it is ugly, Birmingham now is a beautiful, vibrant, cosmopolitan and multiracial City which I do believe you Grandmother would like.
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Nice walk can you record brighton and hove albion this city is so beautiful
Brighton (and a bit of Hove) is coming for sure. I also traveled there on that trip recorded a walk - even though the weather was a bit wild on that day.
UK cities don't seem as walkable as other European cities
@@adjbea4829 yeah, but most people live in cities. In any country a small town is often more walkable.
I guess its just because most British cities developed from the industrial revolution so they're more modern than cities in other countries
Most of these cities were flattened during the war by the Luftwaffe. Post war rebuilding was done badly to say the least especially in the 60’s.
It's just the few big cities that are not walkable. Birmingham is probably the worst.
I like
Very nice 👍 pleasure
FOOOKİN PEOKY BLİONDORS 😎
Brummie Land one love !!!!
Oh I know the brother preaching here :)
Hello i'm from São Paulo Brasil and I'm going to do a England ''tour'' on my vacation. London at October 3-4 and then i'll stay 8 nights in Birmingham and 2 nights in liverpool!! Any tips ? :D
From a tourism perspective I'd spend way less time in Birmingham - 1n or 2n max. My route was Liverpool - Birmingham - Oxford - Cardiff - Bristol - Bath in that area... When you get back to London it may be worth going also via a stop Brighton. I'd say there is a better use of days than 8 days in Birmingham unless you visit family/friends there
@@poptravelorg So what is the reason for spending less time in Birmingham as there is more to see in Brum than Manchester and Liverpool, in the City Center you have the World Famous Museum and Art Gallery, the biggest municipal lending Library in Europe with a viewing gallery on the roof, the biggest Sea world in the UK, the biggest Primark in the world and the biggest under cover shopping complex called the Bullring/ Grand Central Shopping Center, you have the world famous Millennium point Museum of technology on East Side the world Famous Jewelry Quaker, The Birmingham Nature Center in Cannon Hill Park, Aston Hall and Blakesley Hall both Tudor old Houses in the City and Sarehole Mill where Tolkien got his ideas for the Lord of the Rings and Cadbury world plus loads of other tourist spot in and with in easy reach of Birmingham
Ah, the Arcadia. Two men enter, one man leave. A place to avoid.
Birmingham england 🏴❤️
Back in fall 2019 I recorded some dozen of videos in the UK. I hope a new trip is possible sometime soon. Loved traveling around the island... czcams.com/play/PLaxUrZNxL7WKCP68UxiJCZZIeEG3y5or4.html
City of Black Sabbath and Judas Priest ❤beautiful City.
In city ,on street enforcement officer take my identification information for litter offence. I get issued the fine £150 !!,this is law??
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Very Beautiful 🌹🌷🌹🌷🌹
Which better for living Birmingham or Manchester??
Manchester as Birmingham is very aggressive and violent city. Lots of segregated areas both cities.
@@marktaurus206 better than other racist cities
I heard someone speaking our local language there that is good
Urdu?
@@maxisussex dought it mate, their are 1.5 million citizens living in Brum the main language is English, so where are you from mate being so skeptical
57:41 That Spanish hears very sexy
Lovely to see how cosmopolitan the city looks. People of different colours and cultures mixed in a great melting pot. Wonderful!
@Gustavo Adolfo yeah mate
It's so beautiful I want to go there :(
u sure?
Again no talking about the buildings & the history of Birmingham
Why are the buildings so dirty ?
It is not Dirt, it is the colour of aged concrete
Look at those ugly ant-terror barriers. When do you think they will be able to take them down?
No time soon look what happened yesterday
Are youz all Brummies?
Am I the only one trying too see if I'm in this video? 😂
I came here after watching a video of a man screaming I hate Birmingham
To me this is the North of England as I'm from London🤣🤣🤣🤣
PEAKY BLINDERS
More to Birmingham than the fictitious peaky blinders that did not and have never existed just the fictional idea of a film director who doe not come from Birmingham.
@@peterwilliamallen1063 Steven Knight is from Birmingham and the peaky blinders were a real street gang. The group in the show is fictitious but the original members didn't lead well documented lives, apart from their crimes.
@@maxisussex Well I have read nearly every History book and watched a load of Video / DVD's on Birmingham and do you know what, not one mention is made anywhere about the peaky blinders, even Carl Chinn admitted in the end, a Birmingham historian admitted they did not exist, firstly as Carl Chinn said, " Razor Blades had Just been invented at that period of time, and any that existed were too expensive to be waisted and cut throat razor were used for shaving", there were cut throat gangs as there were in London, pick pockets and vagabonds. The Garrison pub does exist and gang frequented it, but not called Peaky Blinders and I am sorry to disappoint Peaky Blinder fans, gangs did not go around Brum with Shot guns and SubMachine guns over their shoulders as in the series, I think you would find that more in Manhattan or Chicago. As I said the name Peaky Blinders only come about due to the TV programme, no history book or DVD mentions that name other than ordinary gangs and I have Shit loads of Birmingham History books and DVD's.
@@maxisussex With reference to the peaky blinders, it was mentioned in a BBC2 programme on the Building of HS2 and in the second half featuring Birmingham, Professor Carl Chinn a historian on Birmingham explained it, they were not a gang as the programme seems to portray, there were gangs in the Birmingham at this period and they were named after families, the Shelbys not being one of them, these gangs fought each other using ordinary flick knives in a slashing manner, throwing stones and house Bricks, bricks in cotton sacks and stone throwing catapults, not razor blades. The name " peaky Blinders" covered every young ruffian and gang member and came about because of their head gear. The truth of it according to Carl Chinn is that these gang members and ruffians wore their hair greased down with a small quiff of hair again greased down on the forehead to one side of their face, the type of hat they wore was a flat cap with a peak which was worn on a slant to one side of the head which covered one eye and showed of the hair quiff, hence they were all called peaky blinders as a fashion , as the peak flat cap covered one eye, so hence the overall name for young men in the Edwardian era in Birmingham was Peaky Blinders it was not one Irish family gang and they never used their cap to attack someone. This comes from a Brummie and a Brummie Historian, Professor Carl Chinn who quoted this on BBC 2 to millions of viewers the other night.
@@peterwilliamallen1063 Perhaps Carl Chinn is an amateur historian. Not all gangs were named after families, you had the sloggers and the Birmingham boys. There are also records of members of the peaky blinders, with Thomas Gilbert and Harry Fowles being prominent members. These gangs were formed in the late 19th century and it wasn't till the early 20th century that the peaky blinders gang had dissolved and the name was applied in a more generic way to street criminals.
Ok,but nothing special..I think.
Where are the english people?
I could be wrong but I believe just like London the native Briton population there either is or is becoming a minority.
@@rsnankivell1962 You do know the UK was spending MORE in colonizing than what they were taking in from colonizing financially right? You do know the average worker didn't benefit one bit from this right? Of course you do, you just hate us with a passion.
Paul Coleman
Yes, you’re wrong.
If someone is half English and half Pakistani or Jamaican are they still English in your eyes? Because that is in increasing and Many people walking about likely don't live there. Cant even post something about Birmingham without racial undertones coming out. And for the matter there is a lot of English people in Brum
@@paulcoleman5512 no they are still the largest group but many people in Brum are also Irish, Asian, Black or mixed (and being half English is not good enough for some)
Birmingham
is there so many immigrants there?
Many immigrants rebuilt the city that's what. Why do so many Brits move to Australia or UAE?
There are no more immigrants in Birmingham than any other City in the world, do not go by what a video shows. out of 1,350,000 inhabitants in Birmingham, there may only be a small percentage of immigrants. Paris, London, New York and Berlin are no different.
@lewis mark Sorry Lewis you are fantasising, there are no Chavs or racists in Brum only in your warped Brain.
@@peterwilliamallen1063 "do not go by what a video shows". That's some next live head in the sand!
@@acos21 Well Chris, the video shows Birmingham as it, is I should know how the City looks now I LIVE IN BIRMINGHAM and have done man and boy for 65 years now and love this diverse City and I have seen the City rebuilt over the years, into a thoroughly modern City, Immigrants, even Fox News in America ballsed up about this on live TV and had to apologize for telling trash about Birmingham and its immigrants on US Television, out of at least 1.3 million Citizens in Birmingham, only 20% are of any ethnic minority, the Rest are white of English and other nationalities, plus there are no more immigrants in Birmingham than the Rest of Britain or Europe it is just how the person doing the video did it and nobody has got their head in the sand what ever you mean by that, it is fact that Birmingham is not full of immigrants, London and Paris are even worce.
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Looks like a foreign country , how sad
Like most major world cities, its diverse and multicultural. You can say the same about London, New York, Paris etc. so while your comment does hold true, its not sad, it's just the norm.
Loads of whites in Birmingham and just live in segregated areas of Birmingham and west Midlands. Lots of racism and narrow minded people in Birmingham and west Midlands.
@Christine Mary You don't get out much, do you? How sad.
Every major city looks foreign
@@brainsmith3931 So how do you come to that conclusion, the same goes for London, Manchester, Glasgow and for a matter of fact Paris. So Birmingham is no different mate
Can you confirm it's uk it has so many Chinese
Beautiful Walk in kharkov ukraine please
Everywhere these chineese
Well he was walking around China town, who were you expecting to see Mexicans ?
Haha almost died....Mexicans 🤣. Watching this as I'm locked down no travelling to town anymore 🙁
Traditionally a lot of Chinese and Irish immigrants, and their descendants, in Birmingham.
I don't like it.
It ain't losing sleep over you mate
The city looks drab.
Not drab at all. You have to remember that a sunny day can make a world of difference.
On a sunny day its looks way better
Try and come and visit our Beautiful City of Birmingham it is far from drab
Then don't come bro
Birmingham Alabama ,looks better than Birmingham England.
lies...
@@Olowa322 Sorry it does not, since this film was made a lot more modern buildings and green areas have ben made in the city, I have seen films of Birmingham Alabama, named after this great City, and the most is it is only equal but not better
@sanjay j Sorry no they are not, Birmingham UK is a beautiful City as is Birmingham Alabama, what the hell do you term as Ugly.
@@peterwilliamallen1063 Do you work for the Birmingham tourist industry?
@sanjay j Get a life and open your eyes my friend.
Birmingham is a racist segregated city with little integration and people live separate lives in segregated areas , locals are very racist and the crime is high literally stabbings everyday now very aggressive city drugs issues too.
Where did you get that crap from, Birmingham is a multi racial cosmopolitan City, if there is any segregation it is the Asian Migrant families doing it.
Then move out then mate
Damn what a depressing and ugly city. Architecture is awful. Maybe it's different once you live here though.
It's a great city
Nahh it's a detty city all the time but that's what makes it exciteing, unknowing if you might get stabbed and the smell of pollution makes the city thrilling, you see funny people and drug addicts everywhere you go, or you'll see tory's in suits in some parts, all the parts that make up a bustling city
@@chloecaine2780 compared to a lot of cities around the world it's not that bad
It used to have beautiful architecture but the 60's planners ripped it to pieces,very sad what it could of been.
Chloe Caine
You didn’t like school much did you?