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JQNF Open Meeting: Mon 13th Oct 7 – 9pm

There are a lot of exciting projects in development in the Quarter at the moment. To keep you up-to-speed, we’ve teamed up with Birmingham Conversation Trust to present a bumper JQNF Open Meeting on Mon 13th Oct 7 – 9pm (doors from 6.50pm) at The Coffin Works, Fleet Street, Jewellery Quarter. You’ll get a sneak-peak of the…

Your local Blue Orange Theatre – upcoming shows

Most of you will know that the JQ has its very own theatre on Great Hampton Street, the Blue Orange Theatre, reminiscent of the kind of small scale but high quality theatre you might encounter in the cooler parts of New York. Want to know what’s coming upon September? Read on. WEDNESDAY 3 to SATURDAY 6…

My pub: Lord Clifden in Birmingham

Lord Clifden: Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter How I got here My career as a chef began at the north east at Lumley Castle hotel between Durham and Newcastle in 1998, included various top hotels, and culminated at the Michelin-starred Arkle restaurant at the Chester Grosvenor. In 1996 I took […] Click here to view original…

Fancy getting involved in the future of the Jewellery Quarter?

The Jewellery Quarter is entering an exciting phase and you can play a part in it. The Localism Act of Parliament (stay with us) gives communities the power to set the rules for planning & development in their area by creating a NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN. It means that old rules can be shaken up, new rules…

Show us your assets!

What would you save in the Jewellery Quarter for the community? The Post Office? The Lord Clifden? The cemeteries? Under new Localism laws the local community can apply to designate a building or piece of land as an ‘Asset of Community Value’. This is where you come in – to help us register them with…

Give your views on the restoration of the JQ’s cemeteries (Fri 13 and Sat 14 Sep)

Bowles Green Limited is working for Birmingham City Council to produce an activity plan to support the Lottery application for restoration work at the Jewellery Quarter Cemeteries. The activity plan is about engaging people with the heritage through training, volunteering and activities. Members of staff from Bowles Green will be at: – Spring Hill Library…

An opportunity to visit the Birmingham Assay Office and view its private silver collection

THURSDAY 26th SEPTEMBER 2pm If you would like to come and see the private silver collection at The Birmingham Assay Office there are now only a handful of places left on the afternoon session on Thursday 26th September. Usually these visits are only available to organised groups. So this is a unique opportunity to see the…

Golden Square back on track?

At long last, a planning application has been lodged for a redesigned Golden Square, outside the Big Peg and Rose Villa Tavern. The application number is 2013/06142/PA Thankfully at first glance it looks like the changes are minimal and presumably done to help stick to a budget. We would like to see more detail on the…

Rediscovered grave proves a major find for tennis history

Tennis historians Chris and Sue Elks who have discovered the lost grave of Major Thomas Henry Gem The long lost grave of the Birmingham man who invented tennis has been rediscovered in a city cemetery. In the week Wimbledon gets under way, Major Harry Gem’s resting place has been […] Click here to view original…

Pack your bucket & spade – it’s the JQ Coach Trip!

We love where we live. But some of us fancy an ‘away day’… Some of the good folk in your JQNF have organised a day trip for JQ-ers on Saturday 27th July 2013 to… Weston-Super-Mare! Bring your buckets and spades, an appetite for ice creams and fish n’ chips, a bag of Murray Mints for…