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Birmingham School of Jewellery, founded in 1890, is a jewellery school in Birmingham, England. Located on Vittoria Street in the city's Jewellery Quarter, it is the largest jewellery school in Europe. [citation needed] It is part of the Arts, Design and Media Faculty (ADM), a faculty of Birmingham City University. [1]
The Jewellery Quarter is an area of central Birmingham, England, in the north-western area of Birmingham City Centre, with a population of 19,000 [1] in a 1.07-square-kilometre (264-acre) area. [2] The Jewellery Quarter is Europe's largest concentration of businesses involved in the jewellery trade and produces 40% of all the jewellery made in ...
Jewellery Quarter Academy, Birmingham City Centre; John Willmott School, Sutton Coldfield; King Edward VI Balaam Wood Academy, Frankley; King Edward VI Handsworth Wood Girls' Academy, Handsworth Wood; King Edward VI Northfield School for Girls, Northfield; King Edward VI Sheldon Heath Academy, Sheldon; King Solomon International Business School ...
The original New Street home of the RBSA, illustrated in 1830 The exhibition room in 1829. The RBSA was established as the Birmingham Society of Artists in 1821, though it can trace its origins back further to the life drawing academy opened by Samuel Lines, Moses Haughton, Vincent Barber and Charles Barber in Peck Lane (now the site of New Street Station) in 1809. [3]
Hockley has been the centre of the city's jewellery industry since the mid-1830s, evolving out of the city's earlier button, pin, buckle and toy trades. The Quarter's strong growth quickly eclipsed the jewellery trade in nearby Derby, which faded away, and the Quarter made a large proportion of the British Empire's fine jewellery.
The factory and buildings are now open to the public as the Museum of the Jewellery Quarter which can be found by its website [3] as part of Birmingham Council's Birmingham Museums and Art Galleries site. [4] The museum includes a guided tour of the actual jewellery factory, showing the tools and industry-related architectural features of the ...
The Argent Centre is a Grade II* listed building on the corner of Frederick Street and Legge Road in the Jewellery Quarter of Birmingham, England.. Designed by J. G. Bland for W. E. Wiley, a manufacturer of gold pens; it was built in 1863, and acquired the name Albert Works, possibly because it was opposite the Victoria Works of Joseph Gillott.
These are 29 MATs (multi-academy trusts) and 19 SATs (single academy trusts). A further six schools are in the pipeline to become converter academies and three are in the pipeline to become sponsored academies. 109 Primary schools are open academies as of August 2017 with three in the converter pipeline and two in the sponsored academy pipelines.