Birmingham City Council in the UK Posts Photo of the Wrong Birmingham
Birmingham City Council in the U.K. got its own city mixed up last night after sharing a photo of Birmingham in Alabama.
Taking to X (formerly Twitter), the Council was posting about a residential development that had been fined hundreds of thousands of dollars for “failing to carry out critical fire safety improvements.”
However, eagle-eyed observers quickly noticed that the photo accompanying the post didn’t show the U.K.’s second-largest city, but the second-largest municipality in Alabama.
“Wrong Birmingham photo well done,” wrote Jamie beneath the now-deleted post. “Seriously guys, who put the work experience kid in charge of the photo?” added Andrew Thomas.
The Tweet has now been replaced with an identical post (below) but with a photo of Birmingham, U.K. “Second time lucky with the photo,” adds Thomas.
A company responsible for a high-rise residential development has been fined £240,000 after failing to carry out critical fire safety improvements.
They failed to comply with an Improvement Notice requiring a fire detection system to be installed across three tower blocks at Solihull Heights.
This case sends a clear message that the council will take action where legal notices designed to protect residents are ignored. Dedicated specialist officers continue to investigate fire safety concerns across the city as part of our ongoing work to make high-rise homes safer.
#Birmingham #FireSafety #ResidentSafety
— Birmingham City Council (@BhamCityCouncil) October 20, 2026
Birmingham City Council, which has made international headlines in recent years for declaring effective bankruptcy and for an ongoing sanitation workers’ strike that has lasted well over 18 months and led to trash piling up in the city’s streets, has previously mixed up the two Birminghams in an official communique.
About a decade ago, the clueless council sent out flyers featuring photos of Birmingham, Alabama. The brochure was about recycling and was mailed to residents all over the city.
Despite the blunder, the city council defended the flyer and refused to recall it.
“The picture on the leaflet is meant to symbolically represent an urban area. Since its first publication last year, the leaflet has been well-received by residents, and is the most requested document to be produced by the Fleet and Waste Management Department,” a city council spokesperson told the London Evening Standard.
“On a total production run of 720,000 copies, the council has received just one query about the use of a generic skyline picture.”
So it is perhaps surprising that the council was bothered to remove the Tweet from yesterday.
Image creditsHeader photo by Matt Growcoot
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