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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 ...
Hockley is the location of the Museum of the Jewellery Quarter and Birmingham Mint. Vittoria Street in Hockley is home to Birmingham Institute of Art and Design's Jewellery School, and The Big Peg arts & crafts workshop cluster is nearby. Housing in the area is generally characterised by well-built Victorian villas and terraces.
The museum opened in 1992 [5] originally as the Jewellery Quarter Discovery Centre, as part of the city's Heritage Development Plan. [6] [7] It preserves this 'time capsule' of a jewellery workshop [8] [9] and also tells the 200-year story of the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter, the centre of the British jewellery industry, and its traditional craft skills.
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 ...
Newman Brothers at The Coffin Works is a museum in the Newman Brothers Coffin Furniture Factory building in the Jewellery Quarter conservation area in Birmingham, England. The museum educates visitors about the social and industrial history of the site, which operated from 1894–1998 as a coffin furniture factory.
Birmingham Museums Trust is the largest independent charitable trust of museums in the United Kingdom. [1] It runs nine museum sites across the city of Birmingham, including Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BMAG) and Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum, [2] with a total of more than 1.1 million visits per year.
Jewellery Quarter station was opened in 1995, as part of the "Jewellery Line" project which saw the re-introduction of cross-city services via Birmingham Snow Hill. Midland Metro services commenced in 1999, when its first (and so far only) line from Birmingham to Wolverhampton opened.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 23:23, 25 February 2011: 640 × 480 (78 KB): GeographBot == {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |description={{en|1="Factory Houses", Albion Street, Jewellery Quarter Birmingham During the 19th century much manufacturing was carried out by artisans working in their own homes or in rooms hired out.