Well, not technically but we can promise you it’s just as brilliant! There are three landmarks in the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter that have been endangered for some time have been granted over £3 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Assay Office Birmingham has partnered up with Birmingham City University to announce a prospective collaboration for an educational hub in the heart of the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter. BCU’s department of gemmology is set to be relocation to the new Assay Office Birmingham building located at 1 Moreton Street. This will allow further development of…
Further plans have been lodged into place in the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter and, you guessed it, it’s an additional complex of new flats to join two other schemes. The new plans are to build just shy of 100 flats in a Quarter street – making it the third residential project to be proposed this year…
The second phase of the Quarter’s regeneration project is soon to be in motion. Consultation on Great Charles Place, which is set to be built on Ludgate Hill Car Park and is confirmed to contain 320 apartments, office spaces and leisure space along with office units. CGI images have been released following the public consultation…
Now that was a mouthful! Jewellery exhibitors in the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter are being presented with a proposal from Highbury Hall – to take part in a wedding fayre, in fact. Highbury Hall is hosting it’s annual wedding fayre is seeking out our very own jewellery exhibitors to take part in the fayre! It’s an…
Edgbaston investor, Parcap Investments, has taken an interesting in the Chamberlain Building. The three-storey retail and office building has fallen under new ownership with Parcap Investments, who bought from MCD Developments. Chamberlain Building can be seen at 36 Frederick Street, adjacent to the Quarter’s own Chamberlain Clock. Built in the 1950s, the building has seen…
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…