First JQBID Festival Takes to the Streets this Summer

Original web page at www.thehockleyflyer.info 359hf 09a This summer sees the Jewellery Quarter host another festival the first organised by the Jewellery Quarter Business Improvement District (JQBID) – a weekend of events that celebrate the diversity and creativity of the Quarter and everything in it. The festival officially marks the opening of new public […]

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Warstone Lane & Key Hill Cemeteries – Restoration Plans

Original web page at www.thehockleyflyer.info Raised stone plinth and hard surfacing showing the Chapel’s historic footprint. Plans have been submitted to transform Warstone Lane and Key Hill cemeteries, both in the Jewellery Quarter. The plans include a series of long-awaited improvements to the cemeteries, which have a long history in the City – Key […]

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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…

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Bloc starts hotel expansion as owners eye second Birmingham site

Original web page at www.birminghampost.co.uk The team behind a Birmingham hotel is on the cusp of signing a deal to launch its second venture in the city as work starts to expand its first. Colin Graham, co-founder of Bloc in the Jewellery Quarter, said he was close to sealing a “prime” site for the […]…

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Golden Square Developments

Original web page at www.birmingham-jewellery-quarter.net Birmingham Jewellery Quarter’s inafmous Golden Square is complete! – Nearly. With only the completion of the information point left to go, we reminisce on the journey the Golden Square has taken us on – and has it been a long one. Skip back to June, last year and you […]…

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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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