I have never seen the new Bull Ring in the flesh so to speak, only in pictures on the web, it is indeed space age. The old bull ring was a continually evolving space also, I knew it from the early forties to fifty seven when I left Brum forever.it has always been a market place, the market hall was still relatively new when it was bombed and we used to shop at stalls set up int shell. The Woolworths was a wonderland when I was a kid and they always got my pocket money, one had to watch out for the barrow boys, they were not always honest and one could easily buy one and a half nylon stockings instead of a pair, it was still like a medievil market place very busy and alive, it seems to be so to-day, so maybe only the buildings change, but people do not.