Trust me to start this thread lol. Anyway, fed up of tall shining towers and landmark structures blah blah and more blah....blah! Here's where to post your real city pictures consisting of tower blocks, forgotten housing estates, graffiti, local bums, litter and general city life that we don't normally photograph.....here goes

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Eastside15.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Tower%20Blocks/Edgbastonblocks3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Tower%20Blocks/Newtown2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham%203/PICT0032a.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham%203/PICT0012.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham%202/Grafitticanal.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham%202/Resevoirview5.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham%202/PICT0004.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham%202/Digbeth8.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham/Graffiti1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham/fazeleyStreet6.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham/Fazeleystreet5.jpg

I love every bit of this thread. Nice one.

Cheers dgnr8 you've spurned me on

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham/FazeleyStreet2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Tower%20Blocks/Hamiltonhouse1.jpg

http://************/afc93t.jpg

Yayyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!! I love threads like this :yes:

wicked stuff smiley

Cheers dgnr8 you've spurned me on

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham/FazeleyStreet2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Tower%20Blocks/Hamiltonhouse1.jpg

http://************/afc93t.jpg


brilliant, i used to live in this tower block, hamilton house, there used to be two of them, great view, but a major shithole !!!

More, more, more....... :)

http://************/ak75oj.jpg

http://************/ak767s.jpg

http://************/ak77zr.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Tower%20Blocks/TowerBlock.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham/Graffiti6.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham/JohnBrightStreet.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham/Eastsidecanal3.jpg

decay and dilapidation....


http://www.railaroundbirmingham.co.uk/full_photos/duddestone_entrance_off_duddeston_mill_road.JPG

http://www.railaroundbirmingham.co.uk/full_photos/duddeston_towards_bham_from_lichfield_platform_&astonsignallingcentre.JPG

http://www.railaroundbirmingham.co.uk/full_photos/duddeston_station_from_lichfield_platform_towards_aston.JPG

http://www.railaroundbirmingham.co.uk/full_photos/duddeston_site_of_old_carriage_sheds_&duddeston_mill_road.JPG

http://www.railaroundbirmingham.co.uk/full_photos/duddeston_disused_platform_&sidings_from_lichfield_platform.JPG

http://www.railaroundbirmingham.co.uk/full_photos/duddeston_closeup_of_sheds_from_lichfield_platform.JPG

Duddeston station...shit, I used to catch the train from there back in 1992 when it looked worse! I worked nearby and caught the train to Wolverhampton every day....ah memories.

It can't have looked worse in 1992 cos I remember stopping there in 1993 and that redundant island platform (formerly 3/4) didn't have half as much greenery sprouting from it as it does in these pictures - in fact you could still see all the concrete platform surfaces back then!

My memories of it looking its best go back to 1983 when - though I never had a camera at the time - back then all four platforms were still operational, the carriage sheds were still open, as was the train shed (in the above picture), there were shunters idling in the sidings, as were empty carriages being moved about....there was still overhead line equipment over all the tracks, leading to the goods depot near Curzon Street and the two-level viaduct that ran alongside the main passenger route......all in all a complete hive of activity.....

This pic below shows what it looked like back in 1985.....

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y89/mckopper/duddy1.jpg

some great pics there Smiley. I like gritty pics myself. And you managed to get toall these places with a cam without getting mugged ? weldone ;)

Here's some more true Brum Grit for yers.....


http://www.therockshed.com/grit/012302grit500.jpg

http://iwantarock.com/images/Items/grit-coarse.jpg

http://www.exchangesupplies.org/images/True%20grit.jpg

http://iwantarock.com/images/Items/grit-medium.jpg

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~ath/images/thumbs/grit_determination.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/travel/images/toll-rd/gallery2/images/6.jpg


:D :D

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A few more
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Eastside4.jpg

for the life of me I've no idea why I took this picture??
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Eastside2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Eastside12.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham/Graffiti2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham/BigJoeGraffiti2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham%204/Ludgate3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham%203/PICT0049a.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham%203/PICT0015a.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham%203/PICT0026a.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham%203/PICT0064.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham%202/resevoirview3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham%202/PICT0021.jpg

Can't have a thread like this without posting up some of LSyds photo's from his recent trip to the city

http://www.pbase.com/lsyd/image/48295952.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/lsyd/image/48294277.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/lsyd/image/48294203.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/lsyd/image/48287453.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/lsyd/image/46703250.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/lsyd/image/48294274.jpg

hey fella, you get down some backstreets

great photos x

I only kicked this one off again coz the Mancs have started their own thread....we can't be beaten in the Grit stakes :)

I enjoy these types of threads.I've spent the last couple of weeks discovering the other side of Seville.I'm not sure but there must more than five thousand blocks.A real concrete maze with a couple of shanty towns thrown in;quite large settlements of up to 200 people of all ages living in lamentable conditions.

I think when grafitti is done properly with pretty patterns and interesting pictures then it can look amazing...it's just that there's too much territorial scribble or scally grafitti around that gives it a bad image (i.e. Stacy sucks d***, etc).

I enjoy these types of threads.I've spent the last couple of weeks discovering the other side of Seville.I'm not sure but there must more than five thousand blocks.A real concrete maze with a couple of shanty towns thrown in;quite large settlements of up to 200 people of all ages living in lamentable conditions.

Photo's please! Seville grit is allowed on the Brum grit thread.

.... (i.e. Stacy sucks d***, etc).

That's very polite graffiti! It is good of them to put asterisks in :lol:

I saw one a few weeks back saying "Fred Bloggs (or whoever) dates OAP's"

:rofl:

I think when grafitti is done properly with pretty patterns and interesting pictures then it can look amazing...it's just that there's too much territorial scribble or scally grafitti around that gives it a bad image (i.e. Stacy sucks d***, etc).
I believe the territorial scribble is called 'tagging' - though 'territorial scribble' is a better description of it.
Graffiti artists hate it when people call tagging graffiti because it blurs the line between art (albeit illegal art) and talentless scrawling on the walls.

On a lamp post in Glasgow

"Tracy and Tam are users"

Tickeled my fancy anyhow..

On a lamp post in Glasgow

"Tracy and Tam are users"

Tickeled my fancy anyhow..

:lol:

I wonder what they use? ;)

http://www.bplphoto.co.uk/imagefiles/PigScan/samples/94-317.jpg

My nan's old estate Hawkeseley south Birmingham, quite white, quite ruff and the only taxi's I got back there refused to drop me all the way in although Castle Pool is much worse and you are more likely to get hassle, I only ever passed through by bus (CP). It is right on the outskirts of south Brum and there are a few great city centre skyline pics from a hill in this area. A lot of respect for the elderly here though (unusually).
http://www.puffins-brixham.velnet.co.uk/nick/hawkeseley.gif

What's Northfield/Longbridge like now? It always was a great place to go for a fight, but is it worse since Rover Collapsed?

Chu art, IMO one of all time best character graff artists in WORLD: http://www.schudio.co.uk/

http://www.puffins-brixham.velnet.co.uk/nick/graff1.jpg

Concrete canvas.

http://www.puffins-brixham.velnet.co.uk/nick/graff3

http://www.puffins-brixham.velnet.co.uk/nick/graff4

http://www.puffins-brixham.velnet.co.uk/nick/graff5

http://www.puffins-brixham.velnet.co.uk/nick/graff6

All images of Brum artists form west mids own www.ukgraffiti.com

http://www.puffins-brixham.velnet.co.uk/nick/graff8

http://www.puffins-brixham.velnet.co.uk/nick/graff9

What's Northfield/Longbridge like now? It always was a great place to go for a fight, but is it worse since Rover Collapsed?

Last time I walked through Northfield highstreet was after a funeral, I witnessed a robbery in a charity shop (the guy tried to fill a bin liner with clothes), I took a walk arond the back of the high street and saw a road full of vacated flats with smashed windows, curtains flowing in the breeze, boarded up doors and no one around. When I looked at the news the next day a pensioner had been robbed of his car from a car park on the high street in the daylight only minutes after I left, he died as a reult of the fight, other than that I only ever drive through the place, massive development due I believe? ex S.A.S. were hired to run undercover surveilance to curb the heroin dealers and anti social behaviour that was making peoples lives a missery in Northfield. Longbridge was partly done up a while ago but windows seem to be smashed again... can't change the people.

Last time I walked through Northfield highstreet was after a funeral, I witnessed a robbery in a charity shop (the guy tried to fill a bin liner with clothes), I took a walk arond the back of the high street and saw a road full of vacated flats with smashed windows, curtains flowing in the breeze, boarded up doors and no one around. When I looked at the news the next day a pensioner had been robbed of his car from a car park on the high street in the daylight only minutes after I left, he died as a reult of the fight, other than that I only ever drive through the place, massive development due I believe? ex S.A.S. were hired to run undercover surveilance to curb the heroin dealers and anti social behaviour that was making peoples lives a missery in Northfield. Longbridge was partly done up a while ago but windows seem to be smashed again... can't change the people.

So it's not got any worse then?

The problem with Northfield is that there is a high concentration of the sort of people who never, ever, ever think about what they are doing or the effect that it has on others, ie it's rammed with chavs. I don't know if you can teach people to respect themselves, each other or their environment, but they need to do something because the next generation are going to be a total social nightmare. And I don't think that being poor and/or underpriviledged is an excuse either!

Northfield's not that bad! You must've happend on a bad day EK.

Northfield is undergoing quite a change with the bypass under construction (that explains the derelict flats ect EK) - that will take a couple of years and there should be some improvement after that.

Then the works will move down the road for the Selly Oak bypass...

As for LOngbridge - it's more of a ghost town now. Unemployment in Longbridge & Northfield is quite high as a result of MG Rover's demise. That said construction should start on the new Longbridge business park, and they should be pulling down all the empty maisonettes soon. Longbridge will become a new town before long. :)

I spent the first year of my life in Bell Lane, my recent experience was from one day, the only other times I visit NF is when I am passing through the high street by car, any news I hear of North Field (West) is to do with the fight against crime, there have been several initiatives to tackle the problems and so maybe they are working? I wouldn't know, at one time the area had one of the highest car crime rates in England although these figures shift like sand from one place to the next.

This was one of many surveys a couple of years ago but highlights residents disatisfaction with their environment: http://www.aviva.com/avivainvestor/index.asp?PageID=2&year=2002&NewsID=1267&filter=

A few more random images

http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/5643/blunthershome0lt.jpg

http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/668/highgateblocks23rs.jpg

http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/4323/pict00171mb.jpg

http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/7199/fivewaysdense3wa.jpg

I've some Dudley Road delights :)

I love this
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http://************/dw7tyt.jpg

http://************/dw7u53.jpg

Blue skies and Birmingham's best sub station :)
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http://www.bplphoto.co.uk/imagefiles/F23/samples/F23-255.jpg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1915000/images/_1917174_councilb300.jpg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/1917174.stm

http://www.geog.le.ac.uk/ajs/gy342/council/Birmingham%20targets%20300%20tower%20blocks%20guardian%2017-3-00_files/image002.jpg

http://www.dentistry.bham.ac.uk/admissions/images/dentsch1.gif

Bullets

http://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/sport/clubs/bullets/images/playing_270.jpg

Robert McCracken

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/730000/images/_731321_holmes_mccracken150.jpg

Abandoned warehouse, Walsall Town Centre

http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/9268/pict00230zl.jpg

http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/9065/pict00195hm.jpg

http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/1540/pict00265iz.jpg

http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/7651/pict00309im.jpg

http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/3423/pict00312vw.jpg

Walsall Skatepark....need to get better pics of these

http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/9468/406000036dm.jpg

http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/7328/406000044bv.jpg

http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/5310/406000053mk.jpg

that graffiti is friggin excellent.

http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/7651/pict00309im.jpg

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Great photos there Smiley.Mind you the spray cans on the floor are huge!!

Excellent photos! Does anyone have any photos of Castle Vale before they demolished the 30+ tower blocks? I only really discovered the area during the demolition so never got any good pictures :ohno:

Cheers, Castle Vale photo is on the tower block thread.....and yes Walsall has always been the best place for decent Graffiti in the West Mids more photo's to follow

I'M WAITING TO SEE SOME MORE SKANKY PICTURES!!!

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oops

Don't worry I am gonna get some fantastic Walsall graffiti pics soon :cucumber: :cucumber: :cucumber: :cucumber: :cucumber: :banana: :cucumber: :cucumber: :cucumber: :cucumber: :cucumber:

^^^

I think the green one is a bit of a groover....the rest are all hyper

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Sod Masshouse, Orion etc I will update this soon with new photos. The Manc Grit thread is excellent mainly due to Caw's excursions and superb photo's.....post your grit on here

talk about being overtaken by 60s council blocks...

Fuck me 'Chu' is amazing! I'd never seen his work before... But then again I've been out of the graff 'loop' for some years... ;)

Ok, about time this thread was resurrected. Some not so pleasant photos I've taken recently :happy:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham%206/PICT0004170606.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham%206/PICT0018170606.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham%206/PICT0034170606.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham%206/PICT0035170606.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham%206/PICT0042170606.jpg

Look at the registration plate, it's not photoshopped I promise ;)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham%206/PICT0043170606.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham%206/PICT001716072006.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham%206/PICT006816072006.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham%206/PICT007616072006.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham%206/PICT011916072006.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham%206/PICT014616072006.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham%206/PICT015016072006.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Tower%20Blocks/PICT012716072006.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Tower%20Blocks/PICT014016072006.jpg

Surely the title of this thread has been spelt wrong......

Shouldn't it be Birmingham GROT????? ;)

Because this essentially is what we're getting hundreds of pictures of here. :yes:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham%206/PICT0035170606.jpg

^^

This really has got to be a first - the graffiti artists here happen to be two Canada Geese! Fuck me sideways and backwards around the block.... amazing talents or what??? :banana: :pepper: :cucumber: :carrot:

:lol: :lol:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham%206/PICT014616072006.jpg

Is that under St. Chads Queenway? or could be the one at Holloway Cirus near the pegoda

That looks pretty good to how I remember the subways to be honest.

Did they smell of piss and sick or was it curry? ;)

Urban decay at its best. :yes:

The last photo in your last post of Schofield and Geach Towers and friends really should be in the tower block thread - I love the way those towers are equally spaced and at a slight angle.

Urban decay at its best. :yes:

The last photo in your last post of Schofield and Geach Towers and friends really should be in the tower block thread - I love the way those towers are equally spaced and at a slight angle.

I'm working on it.....I've got a lot of photo's to post up tonight

I think my modem's going to explode.

Lucky its too hot to go to sleep... (in fact if it gets really bad I may tune my radio to Radio 1 what's'face "Urbain", turn it up so the side panels start vibrating, and go for a nice cool drive, Stockport sounds like nice place this time of nite. Heck I may even be able to get an Ice-cream from the Local Drug dealers/Ice cream vans.

Not hot enough surely? It can only get hotter over the next five days mate.

Where are you? Cheshire?

A few more grot...sorry, grit photos taken between Lancaster Circus and Newtown

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham%207/PICT007823072006.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham%207/PICT008023072006.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham%207/PICT008423072006.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham%207/PICT008723072006.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/Robdann/Birmingham%207/PICT010523072006.jpg