JQ News
24 Carrots announces two markets for 2013 in the Jewellery Quarter!
24 Carrots will host two markets in 2013 in the beautiful surroundings of St Paul’s Square in the Jewellery Quarter, on Thursday 22nd August and 12th December, 4 – 9pm. We are also announcing information about the future of 24 Carrots. We’ve been a bit quiet since the fantastic Christmas Market held in St. Paul’s…
Read MoreRediscovered 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…
Read MorePack 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…
Read MoreObituary – Richard Empson 1943 – 2013
It is very sad to report the death from cancer on 5th April 2013, of Richard ‘Dick’ Empson. Dick was Chairman of the Jewellery Quarter Research Group who are responsible for the Key Hill and Warstone Lane Cemeteries. Dick has been researching and listing the graves over a long […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreSome news from Blue Orange Theatre
Some news from the Blue Orange Theatre, which can be found on Great Hampton Street. Theatre of the Disenfranchised Blue Orange Arts, the registered charity at the Blue Orange Theatre, are celebrating after receiving a Comic Relief Grant through Birmingham and Black Country Community Foundation, one of the many funds administered by the Foundation which…
Read MoreWho Lives in a House Like This? It’s over to you…
The Jewellery Quarter is a housing estate. Well, it was when it was first developed, but then shiny precious things started to be made in the yards of those houses and Hockley changed forever. It’s over 100 years since new houses were built in the Jewellery Quarter. Now we have a few being built behind…
Read MoreGolden Square advance works: tree felling on Sun 7 April
The Golden Square will be a new public square located in the heart of the Jewellery Quarter, next to the Chamberlain Clock Tower and the Big Peg office building. Land in front of the Big Peg on the corner of Waterstone Lane and Vyse Street will become home to a new square, which the council…
Read MoreA Litter-Strewn Welcome to the JQ
A Litter-Strewn Welcome to the JQ This is a view at a key entry point to the Quarter. Not exactly glamorous in itself but worsened by the rubbish drifting down the street. Litter is a problem that isn’t restricted to the Jewellery Quarter but we seem to have some hotspots. The approaches to…
Read MoreWho Cares For the Jewellery Quarter?
Well, we do for a start. But it appears that some of its owners don’t. Empty buildings are the curse of the JQ and dilapidated ones are the boil on the witch’s nose. The Legge Lane area is probably the most blighted part of the JQ and some its landowners don’t seem to be bothered. …
Read MoreJQNF Open Meeting: Mon 18 Mar
Exhibition of final designs – Jewellery Quarter Family Housing Project Mon 18th March 2013, 17.30 – 19.30 The Jewellery Quarter family housing project is an attempt to introduce appropriate new build housing in the Jewellery Quarter. A design studio of MADEGrads has been looking at how this may work. (MADE is an organisation dedicated to…
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