From video by Paul Donovan – is this one of the earliest dashcams?

Still labouring over a warm hard drive here, so while I prepare some stuff for tomorrow, why not have a look around a YouTube channel that’s getting quite a bit of local attention?

Paul Donovan has made and transferred to digital some remarkable clips of driving around Birmingham in 1981, complete with car radio soundtrack. I think they’re rather fab. There’s loads more to root through on his YouTube page, so go take a look.

I can’t fix up an usherette with torch and ice cream in a little tub though, so you’ll have to improvise on that front…

Hagley Road has changed surprisingly little, really…

A fine one from high near Paradise Circus – possibly Alpha Tower?