We’ve taken a look in our photo archives to find some great photos of the city and its residents from past decades.
These pictures show life within the city’s neighbourhoods over the years.
Take a look below:
21. Schoolboy football player signs for Villa, 1983
Mark Burke, Schoolboy football player, aged 14 years old, pupil at St Edmund Campion School, Erdington, signing associated schoolboy forms for Aston Villa today, on his fourteenth birthday, Saturday 12th February 1983. Also pictured, right, Tony Barton, Villa Manager. | Birmingham Post and Mail Archive/Mirrorpix/Getty Images)
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