Virtualbrum now has a new website with a new name and new URL. We have taken over over 3,000 photos around Brum including the suburbs. Only around 1,000 are uploaded and in the gallery up to now. Take a look at http://www.birminghamnet.co.uk/

Great. Virtualbrum was a great website, this should be just as good. I will have a good look at the photos too!

Good stuff as always Vbrum!

Any chance you could take an updated skyline shot from st.andy's???

Its changed so much since your last shots!
rotunda,
orion,
post & mail,
masshouse,
temple point
also cct has been cleaned!

I recommend that Downtown Mark goes on that site and has a look at the Brindleyplace photos. He may just eat his own words.

Great site by the way vbrum. Cheers for posting the link.

I've never seen this bulding before in my life

http://www.birminghamnet.co.uk/galleries/middle-ring/fiveways/5ways91.html

And I'm sure I would have noticed the Torpedoes.

I've never seen this bulding before in my life

http://www.birminghamnet.co.uk/galleries/middle-ring/fiveways/5ways91.html

And I'm sure I would have noticed the Torpedoes.

It is just off Broad Street. I have been there many times. I always go there after a parade in Brum.

I recommend that Downtown Mark goes on that site and has a look at the Brindleyplace photos. He may just eat his own words.

Great site by the way vbrum. Cheers for posting the link.


i'll only eat my words for some of it maybe half? the Ikon galllery rocks so does no3 Bp & no 5 but no 2,4,10,9 & the city inn are shockingly block and square too much. i think anyone could agree on the evidence of the pictures, its certainly about a 50/50 or maybe 40/60 40 for old looking one's.

How did they manage to mix the old & new so much? I love no3&5 & the Ikon gallery but the rest is dreadful but im not going to lose any sleep over it.

i'll only eat my words for some of it maybe half? the Ikon galllery rocks so does no3 Bp & no 5 but no 2,4,10,9 & the city inn are shockingly block and square too much. i think anyone could agree on the evidence of the pictures, its certainly about a 50/50 or maybe 40/60 40 for old looking one's.

How did they manage to mix the old & new so much? I love no3&5 & the Ikon gallery but the rest is dreadful but im not going to lose any sleep over it.

The thing i love about Brindleyplace is that it is *just right* - everything it tries to do, it pulls off perfectly. I really think it is probably the best example of such a scheme in the country, it adds so much to the city centre. Even the cafe in the centre is perfect.

i work in Paddington Central in London, which is an attempt at a similar kind of development to BP, but gets it woefully wrong. It makes you appreciate how good it is when these things are "right".

I did notice when they were builiding it that the first buildings were the best, and as they added more and more they got blander and blander.

Still I think they showed that design had improved from the Concreate monsters that people, including myself, thought that modern/new buildings were made of.

I've never seen this bulding before in my life

http://www.birminghamnet.co.uk/galleries/middle-ring/fiveways/5ways91.html

And I'm sure I would have noticed the Torpedoes.

And just off picture to the right looms the green giant that is BST

http://www.birminghamnet.co.uk/galleries/city-centre/brindleyplace/640.brindley12.jpg

This is such a wonderful shot of Brindleyplace, you could almost be in Italy!

(In the fog ..... it didn't copy!!!)

^^I agree. Nice shot. I am setting up my own site like that which will sort of act like a portfolio whilst being a reference site. Its just gunna be like a Picture library for future generations.

Feel free to borrow my picts from Photobucket

http://s15.photobucket.com/albums/a366/robinsonworld/

but make sure you're not using pics from Manchester or somewhere!

http://www.birminghamnet.co.uk/galleries/city-centre/centenary-square/800.centsq4.jpg

someone send this image to the council!

great pics btw vbrum!

^^Well, in a few years, we'll be seeing our new library there :)

http://www.birminghamnet.co.uk/galleries/city-centre/centenary-square/800.centsq4.jpg

someone send this image to the council!

great pics btw vbrum!


**Technology Update**... "In the ongoing battle to reduce street crime, the Community Safety Partnership are trialling the latest is CCTV technology - it is a camera in the form of a giant eyeball. For obvious security reasons, it has apparently be cleverly disguised on the roof of an unamed residential block of flats somewhere in the city. Experts claim that the vision capability of the 'eyeball' is far superior to conventional CCD camera lens."

^^ Is it somewhere near bathrow? I only ask cause i overheard a couple looking up an pointing at something while talking about a CCTV camera?

**Technology Update**... "In the ongoing battle to reduce street crime, the Community Safety Partnership are trialling the latest is CCTV technology - it is a camera in the form of a giant eyeball. For obvious security reasons, it has apparently be cleverly disguised on the roof of an unamed residential block of flats somewhere in the city. Experts claim that the vision capability of the 'eyeball' is far superior to conventional CCD camera lens."


LOL!

i just noticed it actually..looks like a giant webcam :lol: