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The Rotunda then vs now

Then and now - 13 images comparing Birmingham past and present

DJ at the Rum Runner Club in 1980s

The Dome & 34 other Birmingham nightclubs Brummies miss most

circa 1840:  Saint Martin’s in the Bull Ring and High Street, Birmingham

The 10 original streets of Birmingham that shaped the city

Capitol Cinema, Alum Rock Road

10 of Birmingham’s lost cinemas in pictures - gallery

West End Bar, Birmingham

UK’s roughest pubs: 4 lost Brummie boozers named among most notorious

The life and times of Brummies in the 1980s in 33 pictures

Kingfisher Centre in Redditch marks 50 years in pictures & palm trees

New Street in the 1930s

Thirties Birmingham: 34 incredible photos of Birmingham in the 1930s

Nostalgic photos of life in Solihull during the 1960s & 70s

Nostalgic photos of Birmingham City in the 1980s

Seventies Birmingham: 1970s Birmingham in 38 incredible pictures

Microphone and mixer at the radio station studio broadcasting news

‘Still cracks me up’ - fond memories of BRMB ahead of its return

13 famous faces in Birmingham 1961 to 1993, including Princess Diana

The Woodman in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter sometime 1800

We visit old Jewellery Quarter pub where beer saved people from gin

(Photo by Erich Auerbach/Getty Images)

Fifties Birmingham: Fabulous 50s Birmingham in 39 pictures

February 1962:  Women waiting in a bus queue outside a shop in Corporation Street, Birmingham.  (Photo by Marshall/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Sixties Birmingham: Swinging 60s Birmingham in 35 pictures

T-shirts promoting former Birmingham Broad Street nightclub Ronnie Scott’s

29 year-old T-shirts for former Ronnie Scott’s nightclub up for sale

Noele Gordon, who played motel owner Meg Mortimer in Crossroads

Birmingham’s 19 greatest television shows, chosen by Brummies

31 locally listed buildings in Aston, including a sewers and tunnels

20 locally listed buildings in Erdington, Birmingham

Birmingham skyline

All the 48 locally listed buildings in Birmingham city centre

Dominic in Birmingham remembers his experiences with school meals

We ask Birmingham: What was your favourite school dinner?

Birmingham Centenary Square

Watch: The hidden history of Centenary Square in Birmingham uncovered

Selly Manor in Bournville, Birmingham

We visited 500 year-old Selly Manor in Bournville

Campaign to save iconic 1960s mural in Brum launched - here’s why

Sweet memories in Birmingham

13 sweet memories of growing up in Birmingham

The Rotunda in 1971

12 pictures of The Rotunda in Birmingham from 1965 to 2023

The Birmingham Bull at the Bullring

The astonishing reason the Bullring in Birmingham got its name

Stephanie Jones Duty Manager cleaning The Moseley Road Baths after renovation

Nine historic baths in Birmingham: what is there now?

Young Boys at The Rum Runner Club in Birmingham City Centre

17 Incredible photos of clubbing in 80s Birmingham

16 fascinating photos of Birmingham New Street from 1854 to 2020

9 photos of clubbing at House of God at the Que Club in 90s Brum

Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games highlights

15 Commonwealth Games highlights as Birmingham Festival 2023 announced

1st November 1926:  Punters queue up to lay their bets at Steve Wall’s bookmaking stand at Birmingham Race Course. The inauguration of a betting tax means that the bookmaker must be well supplied with revenue tickets.  (Photo by Kirby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Birmingham retro: 18 of the biggest queues in city’s history

21 awesome photos of Crufts from 1914 to 1957

My word, our language constantly changes!

Some of our staple sayings have seen better days.

Birmingham Superprix 1990

9 amazing photos of Birmingham Superprix from 1989 & 1990

Entrance to the Que Club, a club in Birmingham in the 1990s

Watch: Documentary about clubbing in the 90s at Birmingham’s Que Club

36 photos of people welcoming Pope Benedict XVI to Birmingham in 2010

Duran Duran speak onstage during the 37th Annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at Microsoft Theater on November 05, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame)

13 fab photos of Duran Duran on tour from 1983 to 2022

Dancefloor of The Dome

Things you could do in ʼ90s Birmingham that you can’t do now

 A bomb damaged street in Birmingham

18 incredible photos of Birmingham during World War II

Top Stories on BirminghamWorld

Unions rally against cuts and job losses at Birmingham City Council ahead of extraordinary meeting amid financial distress

Birmingham City Council protests & extraodinary ‘bankruptcy’ meeting

Bus network in Birmingham protected (Picture by Shaun Fellows / Shine Pix Ltd)

Four new Birmingham bus routes planned - here’s where

Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath, Robert Plant and Bev Bevan of ELO attend the opening night of "Black Sabbath - The Ballet" at Birmingham Hippodrome on September 23, 2023 in Birmingham, England. (Photo by Katja Ogrin/Getty Images)

Black Sabbath the Ballet’s opening night photos, including Tony Iommi

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