Some of the Quarter’s own jewellery manufacturers and designers are set to be supplying their magnificent creations to the £100-million store opening later this month! Retail giant, John Lewis, is joining other department stores in central Birmingham, opening on 24th September. Among the suppliers to the department store are six Birmingham jewellers: Rhiannon Lewis, Fei…
Newman Brother’s Coffin Works, the Jewellery Quarter’s new attraction following a fifteen-year resurrection, is exhibiting Crazy Coffins, a Nottingham-based business specialising in unique caskets. Crazy Coffins have been transforming the morbidness of funerals into something quite light-hearted by making truly unique coffins since the 90s. Their range of coffins can go from a Viking boat-shaped coffin to a…
There has been a lot of talk of a certain celebrity visiting our dear Jewellery Quarter and splashing out on a pair of gold stilettos. We are, in fact, talking about Queen Bey who visited the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter at the beginning of this month and bought a £200,000 pair of diamond-encrusted stilettos from House…
Birmingham Museum Trust will be launching a Heritage Walk in the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter. The Jewellery Quarter Heritage Walk is in association with the Museum of the Jewellery Quarter. The aim is to invite visitors to the walk and educate them about the history of the area. Visitors who take the walk will be able…
An old car park on the fringe of the Jewellery Quarter is set to be developed into an apartment complex. The car park, also known to called the ‘bomb site’, will be integrated into the Great Charles Square scheme, in Ludgate Hill on the edge of the Jewellery Quarter. Long Harbour, based in London…
Unfortunately, there are no cats in question, however, there is the fact that there is a brand new restaurant open on Warstone Lane! You may have noticed the a sign bearing the silhouettes of two cats hanging above a doorway, next to Quarter Jewellery on Warstone Lane. Quite mysterious, isn’t it? It gets better. Walking through that…
The Grand Bazaar event: Saturday 18th. What can you do to celebrate the official opening of the Golden Square in the Jewellery Quarter? Hold a festival of course! The JQ Festival is coming, are you ready?
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 may or may not remember this…
Warstone Lane and Key Hill Cemetry are now among other Jewellery Quarter sites to be optioned for a transformation. Well, we say transformation but it’s more like an additional feature. Plans have been submitted for both of the cemeteries, that play host to some of Birmingham’s notable people, to have a Garden of Memory. The…
It’s the weekend! Which means it’s time to put your feet up and relax after a hard week’s work… Or is it? Here’s what’s happening in the Jewellery Quarter this weekend that you don’t want to miss out on! Saturday Spend your Saturday night at Stirlings for a sophisticated night out of great music and…