A visit at the Pen Museum
The Birmingham Pen Museum is unique in the world and celebrates the role the Jewellery Quarter had to play in pen manufacturing. After...
The Colmore Family
The Colmore family was one of the wealthiest families in the history of Birmingham. Being of French origin, the Colmores gained their...
Streets of the Jewellery Quarter – Name Origins
Some of my close friends will already know that I find the meaning of names absolutely fascinating! Whether it’s a new person I met with...
Crime Rates in the Jewellery Quarter
I believe that just taking a look at the crime rates of a place says a lot about what that place is like. I recently looked up the crime...
Children's Drawing Workshop
As I have been exploring the idea of storytelling as an architectural concept these recent weeks, I felt I needed to gain a deeper...
Property Market and Employment Survey - Blackswan Property
Blackswan Property Limited, based in The Big Peg, Vyse Street, Jewellery Quarter, has been appointed by the Birmingham City Council to...
The Jewellery Quarter - Function mapping
As one of my first steps in exploring the Jewellery Quarter, I decided to first find out what types of buildings and building functions...
Visiting Argent College
Just opposite 30-34 Vittoria Street we discovered Argent College, a school that specialises in offering high quality education to...
A brief history of the Jewellery Quarter
The Jewellery Quarter is a unique area of Birmingham, and although over the years, it has been through significant changes and...
A first glimpse of Birmingham
I have never properly visited Birmingham before finding out that our focus in our third year at university will be the Jewellery Quarter....
