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200 year-old Birmingham pub opens its own backyard brewery

Original web page at 200 year-old Birmingham pub opens its own backyard brewery One of Birmingham’s oldest pubs is moving ahead with the times – by opening its own backyard brewery. Two Towers Brewery is not content with simply running The Gunmakers Arms close to St Chad’s Cathedral. It’s now built its own brewery in…

See inside latest Birmingham boutique hotel before it opens

St Pauls House Hotel on St Pauls Square, Birmingham. Birmingham’s newest boutique hotel is due to open its doors this week – so what can you expect? The 34 room hotel, bar and restaurant Saint Paul’s House has been created above former The Rope Walk pub in St Paul’s […] Click here to view original…

Try the best live escape games in Birmingham

Escape games are growing in popularity with several different versions through Birmingham Escape games are growing in Birmingham and you’ve got a number of options to get stuck into. Whether themed around pure horror, or more of a vintage mystery, they all have in common that they place the […] Click here to view original…

A journey from Warstone Lane Cemetery to the Coffin Works; or why I love being part of the Coffin Works’ team of volunteers

One of our new hand-painted signs. It’s been a long old journey. For over 34 years I worked at Toye & Co, one of the oldest, family-run, manufacturers in the JQ and for most of that time my desk overlooked the cemetery. Not that I could see out of […] Original web page at www.coffinworks.org

JQBID Launches a Summer of Events

Original web page at www.jewelleryquarter.net The Jewellery Quarter is gearing up for Summer and none more so than the Jewellery Quarter Business Improvement District (JQBID) team. Luke Crane, Manager for the JQBID, comments “Everybody loves the Summer and it’s the perfect time to explore the Quarter. From a museum tour to sitting outside one […]…

Birmingham’s best breakfasts according to Birmingham Breakfast Club

Original web page at www.birminghammail.co.uk The breakfast at The Hylton Simon Steggles loves breakfasts. I mean, this man really LOVES them. So much so that he set up the Birmingham Breakfast Club www.birminghambreakfastclub.co.uk , visiting a different venue with his pals every week – and cycling there and back to burn off the calories. […]

Jewellery Quarter Heritage Walk

Join the Museum of the Jewellery Quarter for a lively guided walk around the historic jewellery quarter and learn interesting facts about the history of this renowned area, its buildings and businesses. 2pm-4pm £5.00 per person Booking Essential: contact 0121 348 8140 Original web page at www.netmums.com Location: Museum of the Jewellery Quarter, 75-80 Vyse…

14 reasons Birmingham is brilliant according to Rough Guides

Original web page at www.birminghammail.co.uk Birmingham city centre at night Intelligent, confident, excellent, extraordinary, incomparable – those are some of the words used to describe Birmingham in a new guide book that hits the shops this month. The city has been given another massive thumbs-up by Rough Guides, which in December named Birmingham among […]…

“The best area/quarter in Birmingham!”

Original web page at www.tripadvisor.com I have known this area all my life and love it! Jewellery traders and outlets abound, gold wholesalers, amazing history, good blend of old and new here. There is a museum of the jewellery Quarter here, the RBSA gallery, and all this backs on to the last remaining Georgian […]

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…