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		By the 1900s the Jewellery Quarter, or Hockley as it was then known, was densely occupied by large factories on its perimeter and small terraced houses in the centre.
		I told him that if Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter was replaced by a housing estate, resulting in the loss of 300 years of history, 3,000 businesses and 12,000 jobs, because of a lack of insight on the part of the city council when adopting the urban village scheme, I would hold him personally responsible.
		Marie Haddleton is chairman and secretary of the Jewellery Quarter Association, the body representing the quarter’s traders and residents.
	www.ihbc.org.uk /context_archive/78/survive/haddleton.htm (1854 words)

	The Jewellery Quarter Birmingham
		The Jewellery Quarter is within walking distance of Birmingham city centre.
		Jewellery is still produced here and indeed sold to the general public as well as the trade.
		If you are interested in taking a tour round a real working example of jewellery in the making and the history of the jewellery quarter you might like to take a look at the Discovery Centre.
	www.birminghamuk.com /jewelleryquarter.htm (203 words)

	Hallmarks and Silver
		abundance of skilled labour the jewellers and silversmiths in the area that became known as the jewellery quarter.
		Those days have sadly gone and the downturn of the jewellery industry led initially in the post war era to large areas of the quarter being redeveloped with multi storey factories to replace what were quite rightly described by the authorities as working slums.
		The jewellery quarter today is a mixture of original renovated old houses still used as both shops and workshops and other more recent modern factory constructions.
	www.silverware-shop.co.uk /html/hallmarks_and_silver.html (1017 words)

	Birmingham Post: Jewellery Quarter aims to be city's Greenwich Village@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Jewellery Quarter aims to be city's Greenwich Village
		They have put their ideas into a special charter which will be discussed at a meeting of the city council cabinet on Monday.
		If the charter is ratified, the Jewellery Quarter will have a new public square, more green space, improved routes and several...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:109775240&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (221 words)

	icBirmingham - Call for planning rethink in Quarter
		A radical rethink is needed to transform Birmingham's historic Jewellery Quarter into a mixed-use urban village, says a senior commercial property expert.
		Mr Gloster stresses that he wants to see the sensitive regeneration of the Jewellery Quarter as much as the next man but is concerned about planning restrictions which could impede what he described as neccessary development.
		Ms Blunden says: "Moving forward is vital to the life of the Jewellery Quarter and it is accepted by all that the historical form and character of the Jewellery Quarter must be preserved.
	icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk /businessproperty/news/tm_objectid=14236446&method=full&siteid=50002&headline=call-for-planning-rethink-in-quarter-name_page.html (951 words)

	Crystalink Jewellery Manufacturing Ltd Jewellery Quarter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Jewellery Quarter of Birmingham is known as the city's Treasure Island.
		One of the Quarter's most famous landmarks, the clock tower known as Joey, at the heart of the Quarter, was erected in 1904 in honour of Joseph Chamberlain.
		Today, the Jewellery Quarter is still filled with craftsmen, but since the early 1970's, it has opened its doors to the public with the growth of manufacturing and wholesale shops.
	www.crystalink.co.uk /jewquarter.htm (474 words)

	Explore the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter
		The story of the development of Birmingham's industry is remarkable (see right-hand panel), and it so happens that the area of the Jewellery Quarter is associated with a number of important events that occurred around the time of the Industrial Revolution, when Birmingham was a world leader.
		A visit to the museum is recommended for those interested in the jewellery trade and the manufacture of jewellery, as those subjects are not dealt with to any extent here.
		By the 1770s jewellery and silverware were sufficiently prominent for an assay office to be opened.
	jquarter.members.beeb.net (1691 words)

	IDEASFACTORY West Midlands - Training & Courses Feature
		The fact that she had said it, the fact that she would never do it and the fact that it was made to seem a flibberty jibbert's choice of career drew me to start this piece in a rage.
		Jewellery design and making is highly understated, yet in Birmingham it's one of the most cultured industries whilst jewellery itself is a powerful social accessory.
		If you're interested in jewellery production from the vision of a design to the placing of the product in a box, handing it over and receiving a pleasantly hefty cheque then Birmingham's jewellery quarter is without doubt the optimal place to start, and if you're not one for change, remain there contentedly all your life.
	westmidlands.ideasfactory.com /training_courses/features/feature9.htm (710 words)

	The Jewellery Quarter Discovery Centre Birmingham
		The diversity of jewellery manufacturing and the variety of expertise required brought together a pool of specialists.
		The Jewellery Quarter Discovery Centre is the result of restored workshops of a family firm called Smith and Pepper who only ceased trading in 1981 due to retirement of the partners.
		The Jewellery Quarter Discovery Centre is managed by Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery on behalf of the Birmingham City Council.
	www.birminghamuk.com /jewelleryqtr.htm (205 words)

	Raising the Stakes in the Jewelry Quarter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Jewellery Quarter Regeneration Partnership is concerned, not so much with creating investor confidence and putting the Jewellery Quarter on the map, but with focussing on achieving strategic interventions to produce the uses and activities which will make the Jewellery Quarter a true urban village.
		In addition to efforts to protect the quarter's unique characteristics as a major European centre for the manufacture and retail of jewellery, its business base is beginning to diversify, attracting new business, particularly those entrepreneurial activities which seek to locate in a mixed neighbourhood offering a range of opportunities for interaction and exchange.
		What makes the regeneration activity of the Jewellery Quarter distinctive from most other regeneration projects in the UK is the resolve of the Jewellery Quarter Partnership, and both existing business and new residents, to ensure that regeneration does not lead to the sterility found in many area-based regeneration projects.
	www.ihbc.org.uk /context_archive/75/Jewelry/jewelry.html (1240 words)

	icBirmingham - Jewellery Quarter aims to be city's Greenwich Village
		If the charter is ratified, the Jewellery Quarter will have a new public square, more green space, improved routes and several derelict sites will be redeveloped.
		Attractions such as the Christmas lights, Jewellery Quarter in Bloom festival and Brilliantly Birmingham exhibition will be expanded.
		Andy Munro, operations director at the Jewellery Quarter Regeneration Partnership, said: "One of the benefits of working in the Jewellery Quarter is that it is ten minutes from the city centre and has affordable work space which is ideal for the young.
	icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk /birminghampost/news/tm_objectid=15611072&method=full&siteid=50002&headline=jewellery-quarter-aims-to-be-city-s-greenwich-village-name_page.html (442 words)

	News : JEWELLERY QUARTER CD-ROM LAUNCHED AT SCHOOL OF JEWELLERY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		40 pupils from Aston and Nechells were invited to explore the Jewellery Quarter and spent the initial stages of the project meeting companies and agencies based in the Quarter along with meeting staff and students from the School of Jewellery.
		The CD ROM was compiled via students interviewing staff from the School of Jewellery, designers, employees and people living in and around the Jewellery Quarter.
		The pupils involved in the project were genuinely fascinated in the area and the skills involved in jewellery design.
	www.uce.ac.uk /web2/releases/3020.html (281 words)

	www.mineweb.net \| sections \| gold & silver Physical gold demand is outstripping supply (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This was driven particularly from the jewellery sector, bar and coin purchase and from investment in gold-backed exchange traded funds, further stimulated by an undercurrent of political and economic unease, which favoured gold investment.
		In the jewellery sector the upward trend witnessed over the past two years was sustained in the first quarter of 2005, with jewellery offtake increasing by 19% in tonnage terms and 25% in dollar terms over the first quarter of 2004.
		The outlook for the second quarter is essentially positive, with factors supporting increasing gold demand remaining largely in place.
	www.mineweb.net /sections/gold_silver/446970.htm (956 words)

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		After a lapse of some six years, a Jewellery Quarter Festival was held on Sunday 16 July and with the help of some fine weather, the event was considered a success.
		The first event of the Festival was when Marie Haddleton sometimes known as ‘Queen of the Jewellery Quarter’ officially changed the branch name of the HSBC Bank from the ‘Warstone Lane Branch’ to ‘The Jewellery Quarter Branch’.
		The School of Jewellery were holding an Exhibition ‘Attitude into Action’ which was open to visitors and were also arranging tours of the School, and a lady from the Assay Office was identifying Birmingham Hallmarks.
	website.lineone.net /~thehockleyflyer/News_Archives/News182/news_thf_182_0015.htm (619 words)

	::::THE METRO::::
		Visit the Jewellery Quarter Museum or pop into The Pen Room, one of Birmingham's newest museums.
		Services 8A and 8C (Inner Circle) also go to the Jewellery Quarter and provide connections to most of the major bus routes into Birmingham.
		The Jewellery Quarter Station is served by both Metro and local train services.
	www.travelmetro.co.uk /places/jewellery.asp (191 words)

	Jewelleyr Quarter in Birmingham
		The Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham is world famous, and if you didn't know that already then you soon would by the throng of people that spend hours milling around here, either seriously shopping or maybe just dreaming.
		The Jewellery Quarter really took off in the 17th century, when King Charles II returned from exile in France after the Civil War and brought back a taste for fancy buttons and shoe buckles.
		By the early 20th Century the jewellery trade employed 30,000 people, but it has only been in the last half of the century that the shops were opened to the public.
	www.mybrum.co.uk /birmingham/shops-jewellery.htm (739 words)

	The Quarter - Jewellery shops UK. Birmingham Jewellery Quarter jewellers shop buying gifts gold chains rings
		The Birmingham Mint, Museum of the Jewellery Quarter.
		For over 200 years Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter has been the home of some of the worlds most highly skilled goldsmiths and jewellery makers.
		The gold rushes in 19th century USA and Australia led to an increase in the supply and demand for jewellery with the Birmingham Assay Office being granted permission to hallmark goldware from 1824.
	www.the-quarter.com (532 words)

	BBC - Legacies - Work - England - Birmingham - Birmingham's hidden jewel - Article Page 3
		The larger factories did not arrive in the Jewellery Quarter until after the 1830s, when George Elkington launched the new industry of electroplating from his works in Newhall Street, and Joseph Gillott in Graham Street cornered the mass market for steel pens.
		One of the great joys of a visit to the Jewellery Quarter is that you can combine a spot of window shopping with a privileged insight into how a Victorian industry moved and expanded.
		Their move into the Quarter can be paralleled by the appearance of manufacturers from the Indian sub-continent today, making jewellery for the Pakistani and Indian communities.
	www.bbc.co.uk /legacies/work/england/birmingham/article_3.shtml (416 words)

	IDEASFACTORY West Midlands - Careers Feature
		Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter is home to a unique community, blending traditional craftsmanship with the needs of the modern commercial market.
		Steeped in the history and tradition of over a century of jewellery making, the Jewellery Quarter is now giving rise to a generation of up-and-coming designer-makers; a phenomenon that, according to Annette Naudin, who has worked in the sector for years, could encourage other creative industries to set up shop.
		The advent of the designer-maker is changing this however, insists Norman Cherry, head of the School of Jewellery: gallery-shops dedicated to cutting-edge design are beginning to emerge and flourish.
	westmidlands.ideasfactory.com /careers/features/feature9.htm (1059 words)

	Jewellery Quarter - Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Built around the preserved workshops and offices of Smith & Pepper, a Birmingham jewellery firm, the award-winning Museum of the Jewellery Quarter offers a fascinating insight into the city's historic jewellery trade.
		The Jewellery Quarter was developed from the late eighteenth century as an outer suburb for Birmingham's wealthier residents, but within approximately fifty years it had become a burgeoning industrial zone specialising in the production of jewellery and small metal goods.
		Some of the jewellery and art metalwork in Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery collections have been brought together in one place.
	bmag.org.uk /jewellery_quarter (291 words)

	Jewellery Quarter Station
		Jewellery Quarter station opened in 1995, along with the Hawthorns and Smethwick Galton Bridge, on what was named the 'Jewellery Line', opened with the intention of creating "a third cross city line linking the lines to Worcester and Hereford with those to Stratford-upon-Avon and Leamington Spa" according to Centro.
		The Midland Metro stop was added with the opening of that system in 1999 utilising the old Snow Hill to Wolverhampton line as far as Preistfield.
		If you wish to use any of the images for your own non-profit site, feel free to do so but I would appreciate being credited and an e-mail to let me know their new home would be nice.
	www.railaroundbirmingham.co.uk /Stations/jewellery_quarter.php (513 words)

	The Big Peg - Jewellery Quarter - Birmingham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The BIG PEG is a 100,000 sq ft, seven storey building in the heart of Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter.
		Home to a bustling working community of some 200 small arts, media and jewellery enterprises, the Big Peg offers well designed and flexible work spaces for a variety of creative activities at affordable rates.
		Plugging in to such a network, which includes the Custard Factory in Digbeth, is yet another advantage of being at the BIG PEG.
	www.thebigpeg.co.uk /about.asp (171 words)

	Museum
		Jewellery Quarter station only 50 metre from museum.
		Award-winning working museum based around a "time capsules" jewellery factory.
		Exhibitions tell the story of the Quarter and the jeweller's craft.
	www.jewelleryquarter.co.uk /Museum.htm (88 words)

	News : JEWELLERY INDUSTRY INNOVATION CENTRE TRAIL BLAZES LATEST MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUES TO SPEAR HEAD CHANGES IN ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Organised by the JIIC, and held at the School of Jewellery, located within Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter, the seminars are aimed at facilitating the production of new exciting designs developed through more efficient manufacturing techniques.
		Whilst the Jewellery Quarter is renowned throughout the UK for its historic reputation in the production and retail of jewellery, within the Quarter much is changing with new designs, production techniques and new product development processes.
		Gay Penfold, Manager of the Jewellery Industry Innovation Centre said, "It is important that we continue to support the Jewellery Industry in its bid for change.
	www.uce.ac.uk /web2/releases/3412.html (433 words)

	World Gold Council > jewellery > Gold News
		Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter is on the brink of setting up a major new gold jewellery production centre.
		Now Advantage West Midlands is considering offering help to fund the scheme, with those in the Jewellery Quarter also throwing their weight behind the potential project.
		Andy Munro, from the Jewellery Quarter Regeneration Partnership, told the Birmingham Post the Golden Square would form a 'key component' in the regeneration of the area.
	www.gold.org /jewellery/news/article/16 (198 words)

	Jewellery - Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Today, the Jewellery Quarter employs about 6,000 people in the jewellery and related metal trades and is still a major centre for gold jewellery production in Britain.
		The Museum of the Jewellery Quarter is built around the workshops of Smith & Pepper, one of the many businesses that were based in the area from the late 1800s.
		The factory was 'rediscovered' in the late 1980s, and Birmingham City Council took the decision to convert the site into a museum to tell the story of the Jewellery Quarter and promote the area as a tourist destination.
	bmag.org.uk /jewellery (360 words)

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