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  2. Jewellery Quarter - Wikipedia

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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 in ...

  3. St Paul's Square, Birmingham - Wikipedia

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    St Paul's Square (also known as St Pauls Square) [1] [2] is a Georgian square in the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham, England, named after the church at its centre. It is the last remaining Georgian Square in the city.

  4. Jewellery Quarter station - Wikipedia

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    Jewellery Quarter station is a combined railway station and tram stop, situated in the Jewellery Quarter of Birmingham, England. The station is served by West Midlands Trains (who operate the station), Chiltern Railways , and West Midlands Metro .

  5. Hockley, West Midlands - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. St Paul's Church, Birmingham - Wikipedia

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    The Jewellery Quarter – History and Guide, Marie Elizabeth Haddleton, ISBN 0-9513108-0-1 Pevsner Architectural Guides – Birmingham , Andy Foster, 2005, ISBN 0-300-10731-5 External links

  7. Museum of the Jewellery Quarter - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Smith and Pepper - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Key Hill Cemetery - Wikipedia

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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 ]