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master brummie
Well I don't know when they were cleaned up, I left in March 1972, but returned to work in the centre of Birmingham, in the late 1980's. It was all clean then, if I remember rightly, although St Martin's was still black, or at least dark grey. It's easy to see why people still think Birmingham is a grimy city - they probably only see old photos, and it did look grimy then.