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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 ...
Birmingham City Council have designed 31 conservation areas, [2] of which one, St Peter's Place, have been de-designated in 1976 following the demolition of the church in its centre. [3] The Castle Bromwich Conservation Area was transferred to Solihull following a boundary amendment from 1 April 1988.
Hockley is a central inner-city district in the city of Birmingham, England. It lies about one mile (1.5 kilometres) northwest of the city centre, and is served by the Jewellery Quarter station. Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter continues to thrive in Hockley, and much of the original architecture and small artisan workshops have survived intact.
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 v
Birmingham city centre, also known as Central Birmingham or town, is the central business district of Birmingham, England. The area was historically in Warwickshire . Following the removal of the Inner Ring Road , the city centre is now defined as being the area within the Middleway ring road. [ 1 ]
The view south along Newhall Street from the Jewellery Quarter. Lock number 9 underneath the double-arched Newhall Street bridge. Newhall Street is a street located in Birmingham, England. Newhall Street stretches from Colmore Row in the city centre by St Phillip's Cathedral in a north-westerly direction towards the Jewellery Quarter ...
Tower blocks in Ladywood. The Ladywood ward combines areas of varying land-use, such that no generalisation is possible. There is the city centre (the economically valuable Central business district), the affluent Jewellery Quarter, and Broad Street areas which have become fashionable for "luxury flat" living, the Lee Bank area (now known as Park Central) which has been fully redeveloped, and ...
It reopened in 1987 as part of a completely redeveloped site with new office buildings replacing the original hotel, and multi-storey car parking over the station concourses. In 2011 a new station entrance was opened linking Snow Hill station to the Jewellery Quarter, on the other side of the A41 Queensway inner distribution road.