This is a regular series of blogs about photographs of the same place taken years apart. I quite like those Then and Now comparison photographs that you see in books or on the Twitter or Facebook. The first of the posts in this series was of a council building in Manchester.
Next door to the ICC in Birmingham is a canal and there is a bridge across there from Brindley Place, and it would appear quite often when crossing the bridge I would take a photograph down the canal looking towards the what was the NIA (National Indoor Arena) and is now known as the Utilita Arena Birmingham.
I have over the years taken a photograph from the bridge. This photograph was taken in October 2025 with an iPhone 13.
Here are the photographs from over the years taken of the same view.
It’s quite surprising how little has changed over the fourteen years between the photographs.
It would also not surprise you that I have a similar set of photographs looking the other way…