Birmingham's beauty hotspots

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Whether natural or man made Birmingham and the West Midlands has plenty of examples of aesthetic beauty. I'm here today in Birmingham city centre to speak to the people here about their favourite scenes across the region.

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00:00 I like Sutton Park, really anywhere green. I don't remember the name of the park in Wolverhampton,

00:09 is it just Wolverhampton Park? I don't know, off the Tecton Road anyway. But yeah, green

00:13 spaces, we are a little bit limited for green spaces, especially in the centre of Birmingham.

00:18 But Sutton Park is enormous, places like that really. I don't think that all the new builds

00:24 in Birmingham are that pretty, all the glass architecture and stuff. When you walk down

00:29 the high street in Birmingham and you actually chance to look up and you look around, you

00:32 do see some nice architecture and all this sort of steel and glass, I don't think is

00:36 that pretty. I'd say Bourneville, for me personally, is like the place, I think because it's got

00:43 like a lot of history, it's pretty and also there's like a lot put into the maintenance

00:48 of it, so it doesn't always, I don't know, it just has like a sort of a charm to it.

00:52 I can be a bit biased because we live near there, but it's just a nice place. It's like

00:56 more family friendly and yeah, I like Bourneville, I'd say. Bourneville, Mosley, or Sturtsley,

01:03 or Kingsley.

01:05 Well, obviously, I'd like to say the museums, the theatre, these are all great places. You've

01:13 got the one here, the Art Gallery, it's amazing. We've just had in there and now travelled

01:18 all around and I'd say it's, Birmingham on a whole is a really good place to come to.

01:26 I like the architecture.

01:28 And that's what we've come to see, a lot of the architecture. I mean, we were impressed

01:32 by the ball ring, but that's modern, you know, we prefer to see more of what used to be.

01:38 That we're just still new, so still looking.

01:45 Well we've only been here less than a day, but I mean, I found we went on a quick stroll

01:50 around the ball ring and all of that in the St Martin's Church, I think it's called down

01:55 here. And just behind us all now, this magnificent architecture of the buildings here, the Town

02:00 Hall I think it is, and the Mayor's Office or something, I'm not quite sure yet, we haven't

02:04 got that far. But it's that sort of place, and we were in a hotel that's very high up

02:10 and we're looking out and there's some spectacular buildings. And as you walk down the streets,

02:15 if you look up, rather than down the Fulb Shore, the architecture, the red bricks, it

02:20 is very impressive buildings here. And that's what I'm looking forward to, to see more

02:25 of that.

02:26 Yeah, absolutely. Architecture, well that's our thing anyway, that's what we love. But

02:32 beautiful was, looking at St Martin's, I agree. In contrast to the Selfridges building, the

02:39 outside there, just see the new and the old to me, because when I left, it was just the

02:44 ball ring, it was the market, but there was never the modern take on it there. So that's

02:52 all I've seen so far, so got nothing else to add all that. Yeah, you said it all. Yeah.

02:57 (dog barking)

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