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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 […]…

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 […]…

Precious gem

It remains to be seen whether the jobbing jewellers will be able to afford to carry on manufacturing long into the 21st century. Central Birmingham’s tranformation continues apace. Serious money is cascading into yet more leisure developments and young professionals are clamouring to live in the middle of town. Original web page at www.theguardian.com…