Does the JQ need another secondary school?

St Georges Court

Shortly before Christmas signs appeared on lampposts on Albion Street advertising the proposal to turn St George’s Court office building into a new secondary school; the fourth in the successful model of Perry Beeches. Perry Beeches II on Newhall St was and is warmly welcomed by Jewellery Quarter residents and businesses, and has an important…

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Who 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…

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