What is it? Cinco de Mayo is Spanish for ‘the fifth of May’ and it marks the victory of the Mexican army against the French in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. It is significant because it not only marks the unlikely victory against the better-equipped French army but ever since the Battle…
The owners of the Smith & Pepper Jewellery Manufacturing Firm retired in the early 80’s leaving behind a historical wonderland for future generations, that, unbeknownst to them, would be become on of the most popular attractions in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter. The proprietors ceased the trading and left behind overalls, used teacups and well-used tools scattered across…
Warstone Lane Cemetery dates back to the late 1840s, where it was once a burial ground for the members of the Anglican Church. One of the key elements on the cemetery is the two tiers of catacombs. The almost toxic vapours that came from the catacombs resulted in the Birmingham Cemeteries Act, which required non-interred…
Hard To Find Whisky, an off licence situated in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter are selling a 50-year-old Macallan, that was distilled in the 1920s and bottled in the late 1970s. The off licence’s owner, Jason Kirby, claims that when the bottle was first released in the early 1980s, it would have cost around £150, but the…
Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter is well-known for being Europe’s largest concentration of business involving the jewellery trade, but it isn’t just about the jewellery, in fact, it’s home to many professions and businesses and bars and restaurants! Here are a few reasons why the you should visit Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter: 1. It’s a historical gold-mine! – The…
Just east of Icknield Street and west of Great Hampton Street/Constitution Hill in Hockley is the Jewellery Quarter. Well known for housing the greatest concentration of wholesale and retail jewellery manufacturers in all of Europe. It is fact that over a third of all of British Jewellery is manufactured within one mile of Birmingham’s City…