Garden of Memory plans for Jewellery Quarter cemeteries

Original web page at www.birmingham-jewellery-quarter.net Warstone Lane and Key Hill Cemetry are now among other Jewellery Quarter sites to be optioned for a transformation. These catacombs can be seen at Warstone Lane Cemetery. Well, we say transformation but it’s more like an additional feature. Plans have been submitted for both of the cemeteries, that […]…

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Real Estate Investors in £25mln boost to West Midlands property empire

Original web page at www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk Wheelie hot: Birmingham’s property market is buoyant. Real Estate Investors ( LON:RLE ) revealed it has spent almost £25mln increasing substantially the size of its West Midlands commercial property portfolio. The acquisitions, including 40 St Paul’s Square in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter, were funded by April’s £45mln share placing. The […]

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Waterloo 1815

David Mahony, Director of PCPT Architects and member of the JQDT Board, looks back at an intriguing role the Jewellery Quarter had in the Battle of Waterloo. Two years ago Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter remembered Wellington’s Battle of Vittoria (1813) from the Peninsula War because of the eponymous street. Then […] Original web page at www.jewelleryquarter.net

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Staycity opening delayed following GB Group collapse

Staycity’s new apart-hotel in Newhall Square this week looking some way from completion A new £17 million serviced apartment complex in the Jewellery Quarter is expected to open six months later than originally planned following the collapse of its main contractor. Irish group Staycity announced last year that it […] Original web page at www.birminghampost.co.uk…

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“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 […]

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Unique Find: Technical Team Solutions

Original web page at www.jewelleryquarter.net This month, JQBID manager Luke Crane, popped in to see fellow Big Peg residents, Technical Team Solutions. Andy Jones and the rest of the IT recruitment team made him feel right at home in their newly decorated office. When did you move to the Jewellery Quarter? After spending a […]

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