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Key Hill Cemetery (OS grid reference SP059882), originally called Birmingham General Cemetery, is a cemetery in Hockley (the Jewellery Quarter), Birmingham, England. It opened in 1836 as a nondenominational cemetery (in practice nonconformist ), and is the oldest cemetery, not being in a churchyard, in Birmingham. [ 1 ]
Warstone Lane Cemetery, (grid reference), also called Brookfields Cemetery, Church of England Cemetery, or Mint Cemetery (from the adjacent Birmingham Mint), is a cemetery dating from 1847 in Birmingham, England. It is one of two cemeteries in the city's Jewellery Quarter, in Hockley (the other being Key Hill Cemetery). It is no longer open to ...
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 ...
For example, Key Hill Cemetery in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter, founded in 1834, was a local example of such a Joint Stock venture. [ citation needed ] However, these efforts by private enterprise could not, by themselves, solve the overall problem, [ citation needed ] and as a direct result of the cholera epidemics of 1831–32 and 1848–49 ...
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 ...
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Drawing from William Hutton's 1809 book An history of Birmingham, showing the church before the spire was added. The Grade I listed church [1] [2] was designed by Roger Eykyn of Wolverhampton. Building started in 1777, and the church was consecrated in 1779. It was built on land given by Charles Colmore from his Newhall estate.
The Chamberlain Clock is an Edwardian, cast-iron, clock tower in the Jewellery Quarter of Birmingham, England. It was erected in 1903 to mark Joseph Chamberlain 's tour of South Africa between 26 December 1902 and 25 February 1903, after the end of the Second Boer War .