Posted on 30 November 2011.
Turley Associates are holding a public exhibition on Saturday 3 December in Springhill Library/Tesco Foyer between 10am and 2pm in order to consult the public on the Birmingham Assay Office’s proposals to relocate to a new location in the Jewellery Quarter in 2013. Also see: Trebor Developments Appointed for New Birmingham Assay Office Project Birmingham [...]
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Posted on 30 November 2011.
Leading unions are set to defy Birmingham City Council by holding a march through the city as part of the public sector strikes. The planned pensions protest will go ahead without permission from the local authority and without official road closures, it has emerged. Leading public sector unions will continue with the march from Lionel Street, in the Jewellery [...]
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Posted on 29 November 2011.
Industrial action over public sector pensions could descend into chaos in Birmingham on Wednesday as an organised demonstration had to be cancelled due to lack of funds. The TUC planned to march through the city centre with around 10,000 members from 27 trade unions. But they said they had to cancel the protest because the [...]
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Posted on 29 November 2011.
Jewellery Quarter-based Gladman and Norman have been awarded the £7 million order to supply medals to the armed forces, emergency services, prison staff and others celebrating next year's anniversary of the Queen's 60 years on the throne. …S…
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Posted on 28 November 2011.
As part of the challenge, pupils have been split into five groups and will battle it out to come up with ideas for a new restaurant venture in the Engine Room on Newhall Square in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter. The project will involve …Barques …
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Posted on 28 November 2011.
Friday 2 December (5.00-9.00pm)
Jump aboard the free ArtBus to visit the Barber, Mac, Ikon, Eastside Projects and RBSA galleries for a special late night opening. Free guided tours, mulled wine, mince pies and other refreshments available at all galleries. It’s also a perfect opportunity to pick up some unique designer-maker Christmas gifts at the RBSA [...]
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Posted on 27 November 2011.
A few weeks ago I was in Birmingham's leafy St. Paul's Square on the edge of the Jewellery Quarter with about a dozen of my students on a one day …fotofiliablog.com/tag/birmingham-jewellery-quarter/
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Posted on 27 November 2011. Tags: JQNF
The Jewellery Quarter has had a long and twisting journey since it stopped being the Colmore family’s backyard to New Hall Manor around 1746. Its fortunes, and those of the people living and working here, have waxed and waned in ceaseless tempo with the economic and political forces of the times, just like anywhere else. [...]
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Posted on 27 November 2011.
Welcome to Jewellery Quarter Station on Facebook. Join now to write reviews and connect with Jewellery Quarter Station.en-gb.facebook.com/pages/Jewellery…/125996737452277
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Posted on 26 November 2011.
Some 30 years ago, when we launched the first issue of the Hockley Flyer we found it very difficult to research the history of The Jewellery Quarter. The only …www.ybapublications.co.uk/Flyerblog/wordpress/?p=3306
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