No rubbish no Muslims that what I see wake up British people we are under attack
@stephen3511
4 ай бұрын
Much nicer back then
@sollyolly9547
4 ай бұрын
This really is like totes amazeballs. Such a long time ago, but so recognisable! We moved to Solihull back in 2000. This is SO interesting! Thank you for posting.
@alexanderjames6328
6 ай бұрын
Thank you for posting this wonderful footage, I was 9 at the time.
@alexanderjames6328
6 ай бұрын
Thank you for taking the time to post this interesting footage, I was 9.
@wesstarmedia
10 ай бұрын
Since then, the anti-car, padestrianisation policies are very clear to see. I cannot see what they achieved by losing all of that parking? Is it just a control thing?
@Graciecanedit
11 ай бұрын
POV it’s 2023 and yu live in Solihull 💀
@reynardbizzar5461
11 ай бұрын
Oh what a beautiful and inviting town centre😂
@RedBullAddict-_-
Жыл бұрын
Where's all the immigrants?
@acquiesce100
Жыл бұрын
4.14 at the traffic lights; would that be turning right into Hermitage Lane where Tesco Express is now on the corner?
@erickate6969
2 жыл бұрын
Interesting to see the old mell square
@irisstirling6119
2 жыл бұрын
Gosh! Happy memories.
@nigelbagley4848
2 жыл бұрын
love it! where is everyone??
@lesleybates2413
2 жыл бұрын
Look at all the lovely shops, ah Woolies. I worked there for 6 years.
@masonjc8597
2 жыл бұрын
Imagine telling someone back in those days that in 40 years time there’ll be the youths roaming Solihull with machetes. Thank you Major/Blair/Brown/Cameron/Johnson and your globalist bosses for destroying our once civilised land…should be jailed for what you traitors have done to our country
@ColonelBandit
2 жыл бұрын
I worked in Solihull from the mid-80s until early 90s and the town centre, Mell Square etc all look pretty much as they did then - some great memories - thanks for posting
@lockhartflawse1225
3 жыл бұрын
You drove past my house too. I went to Greswold and then Tudor Grange.
@791NewsK2
3 жыл бұрын
The name of this city is similar to the name of my one (distance of about 2200 miles). It's funny. 🙂
@kibrok
3 жыл бұрын
Wow! does that bring back some memories! I was 20 in 1980 so was driving around in my mini cooper in the exact same places. Loved seeing all the old cars and pretty much all British back them. Happy Days!! Thanks for sharing.
@wendysimpson6395
6 ай бұрын
Ford Capri caught my eye too. But Ford is American.
@kibrok
6 ай бұрын
@@wendysimpson6395you are right, Ford is American, but UK and Europe had their own divisions and built completely different cars for the European market, including the Capri which was built at Halewood in the UK. So to me, it was a British Ford. It was intended as our equivalent to the US Mustang. The Capri did make it to the USA but under the Mercury brand.
@wendysimpson6395
6 ай бұрын
@@kibrok everyone has a Capri memory! Such a great car.
@nicolasmiley7181
3 жыл бұрын
Summer 2021 - who would of thought that M&S would close down and move out of Solihull town centre and move to the retail park in Shirley. Crazy times!!!!!!
@jonhart7630
3 жыл бұрын
Back in the 80s you could walk round Mell Square or down Solihull high street without 10 people asking you to sign something or pay for something 😀👍
@keithwest2492
3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant, we lived at 6 Buryfield rd. About 20 years. Good times.
@deanstanley5799
3 жыл бұрын
Home of the Rover sd1 !
@CancerGaming56
3 жыл бұрын
Fantastic footage you got there mate. It’s strange viewing this, as I was born in 2000 and have been a resident from 2009-present day.
@clareturner5788
4 жыл бұрын
Lovely seeing my house. I'm so glad you filmed both sides of Links Drive! Thank you to your younger self for filming this @Hillcrest54
@cliveblackshaw
4 жыл бұрын
Takes me back, my In Laws lived in Solihull and we used to visit in the 70's & 80's. Had coffee and cake in Beatties.
@benlongstaff5536
4 жыл бұрын
Marks & Spencer soon to close and more to Marshal lake road, Woollies long gone, MEB doesn't exist any more and even the Post Office has now closed and is upstairs in WH Smiths, who would ever think that would happen ? Not all change is good.....
@clareturner5788
4 жыл бұрын
Has M&S closed. I thought they were still on that corner of Mell Square
@KryptonitetoallBS
2 жыл бұрын
@@clareturner5788 Yep, gone to Marshall Lake Road.
@Biggee111
4 жыл бұрын
Good to see Solihull Motors on Warwick Road opposite what was Beatties, now House of Fraser. Some people don't believe me when I say there used to be a car showroom there!
@garymwalton
4 жыл бұрын
I worked at Chadwick House from 1979 to 1985 and this really takes me back ( I wish it would, actually).
@Biggee111
4 жыл бұрын
I was at Chadwick House with the Inland Revenue 1978-1979 and again 1984-1987
@helenloughton2418
4 жыл бұрын
Used to ride my motorcycles around solihull .olton 1981 onwards.roads are probably ruined by cars now moved to inverness so I can ride free.
@KryptonitetoallBS
2 жыл бұрын
Good decision. Solihull/Knowle has gone down hill tremendously in the last 25 years. The main culprits are Solihull Council Planning Dept who will do whatever is asked, IF you grease their palms. There are empty offices, charity shops, new apartment blocks and old peoples homes absolutely everywhere in Solihull, Shirley, Knowle etc. The town planners have retired to the Bahamas 😉
@nononono-qo4vc
4 жыл бұрын
Looks just like today beautiful and clean
@VDPEFi
4 жыл бұрын
Where did the underpass at 2:00 used to go?
@chrisf1600
4 жыл бұрын
Great video :) What's the shop on the NW corner @0:59 - Perring's or something ? I can only remember a Burton in that spot. I remember WH Smith was on the north side, but I didn't spot it in the video - is it behind the hoardings maybe ?
@melgrant7404
5 жыл бұрын
Love the trees planted on pavements
@melgrant7404
5 жыл бұрын
Makes me dizzy
@nicolasmiley7181
5 жыл бұрын
O happy days around the fountains in Mell Square. I park around them one Friday evening and went for a drink with my sister. Drank to much and forgot that Mell Sq was closed off Saturday for pedestrians. My sister and I found a policeman who kindly drove it to my mums house at the bottom of church hill 🤣🤣🤣 happy memory’s
@nicolasmiley7181
5 жыл бұрын
Watching the traffic lights at Warwick Rd/ Lode Lane is hilarious. Now it’s a great big roundabout where you have to hold you’re breath and a) hope you get on it and b) get round it safely 🤣🤣🤣
@Marie-21-
4 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣 they should of left the lights
@marcusmarkou
5 жыл бұрын
As a kid who grew up in Solihull in the 1970s - that was some trip. I had forgotten about Dolcis - where I used to get my shoes as a kid. And the MEB store. I think there was a toy shop just off Mel Sq called Barny's or Barnaby's. This must be a Sunday - before they relaxed trading laws. I always remember Mel Sq packed on a Saturday and there was always a group of lads that hung around by the fountain. For a special treat my Mum would take us into Beatties and I'd have an egg and cress sandwich - the cafe on the top floor was next to the toy department. It had two parts - the posh bit with a view and then the cafe bit. When I was about 4 I walked off with one of those figures you put on the end of a pencil. Technically it was theft but I was 4. I just wanted it. My mother quizzed me and then took me back to Beatties and I was made to apologise to the sales lady at the till and hand it over. I then got the lecture that if I continued to steal I would end up trying to do something like the Brinks Mat and would end up in Alcatraz. So - yes, I never stole again after that nightmare in Beatties. Solihull in the 70s was a strangely comforting place.
@chrisf1600
4 жыл бұрын
Beatties, ha! I'd forgotten that place. The toy department was fab. I used to love Tandy too, the staff let us mess around and play games on the old computers :)
@jafuk
6 жыл бұрын
Just drove past my house. Thanks for sharing
@MrAbstraxsax
6 жыл бұрын
That could be me coming towards the camera car at a 6 seconds in.....
@damiencrowley5546
5 жыл бұрын
In the Simca?
@damiencrowley5546
5 жыл бұрын
In a Simca?
@MrAbstraxsax
3 жыл бұрын
@@damiencrowley5546 yep.
@wacka2
6 жыл бұрын
people take a look at how few road signs there are ....now there is some stupid rd sign every 20 ft
@73Douchebag
6 жыл бұрын
wow i can only just remember when you could drive round there almost got knocked off my bmx once by smiths lol
@RDA15
7 жыл бұрын
love this video, my parents live down links drive now and moved there 1983 on the stretch just at the end of the video, did you live down that road too?
@Hillcrest54
6 жыл бұрын
yes number 91
@stephenfox966
8 жыл бұрын
The camera work is way too wobbly for me to enjoy the video !
@DuncanSmart
7 жыл бұрын
Stephen Fox Absolutely, he should go back and redo it. 😉
@chrisf1600
4 жыл бұрын
I don't think it's even HD, must have been shot on a really old iphone :)
@clareturner5788
4 жыл бұрын
Can't blame the camera work ...this was new tech then. I had a Sony Walkman which even though I thought this was the coolest thing ever still distorted all sound when moving making the 'Walkman' part a bit redundant!
@Dolphination
8 жыл бұрын
that trip around mell square is bizarre.
@1969mattbritt
8 жыл бұрын
Do you have any other videos from that time?
@Hillcrest54
8 жыл бұрын
Afraid not - just the 2 I've posted
@francais70
7 жыл бұрын
I do remenber be gone with some friends of mine at Solihull close to Birmingham, in September 1979. We were coming from Brighton, and I don't remenber what motorway that we had to take , M1 , M5 ?? . At that time , I didn't drive yet ! . Forgive me my English, I know,it is not very pertinent !
@jamessergeant2136
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for putting up this film - so ordinary but so different 40+ years on. I was living in Solihull at this time and it brings back memories - so quiet and uncrowded.
@mattcartwright7417
8 жыл бұрын
This video takes me back to childhood, I can remember WHSmith being on the other side of Mell Square as seen here and if you look at the side where boots is you can see the current WHSmith store being built, happy memories, many thanks uploading this, do you have any more footage to upload
@chrisf1600
4 жыл бұрын
Ah you must be a little bit older than me, i remember Smiths always being on the north side of the square next to Boots. Well spotted !
@Biggee111
4 жыл бұрын
There was a J Sainsbury's there before WH Smith's wasn't there?
@clareturner5788
4 жыл бұрын
@@Biggee111 Yes Sainsbury's was originally in the place of WH Smith's new location. There was a Halfords on the corner.
@MrCoopso
8 жыл бұрын
Hey, that's fantastic, thanks so much. I lived on Naseby Road from birth until 1983 so this is great for me!
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