Funded by Birmingham City Council Celebrating Communities Fund and Caring for God’s Acre this project is part of our celebrations for the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. We are bringing young … Read more
Thomas Winkles founded the Winkles jewellery company, specialising in buckles, chains and black (mourning) brooches. From the 1860s they had premises on Hylton Street, the Vyse St and then Spencer … Read more
Perhaps, past-struck, a horse-drawn hearsehas pulled you up the hill to here;or, in some census, scanner-smeared,his name, her job, fuzzy and terse; or nothing as old or grand as grief.A … Read more
The JQ Townscape Heritage Project and JQ Cemeteries Project worked with ATHAC and The Hive to run the Heritage Creatives – an online group of volunteers who are interested in … Read more
We’ve created a new art installation for the JQ station which will be welcoming visitors to the Jewellery Quarter for years to come. This blog is about the design process … Read more
William Fleetwood Callaway was born on the 17th March 1834 in Staffordshire, England, he had one brother and two sisters. He married Martha Taylor and they had two daughters and … Read more
We have been planting wildflower meadows with JQ Academy students, JQ Heritage Squad Volunteers and local residents. The seeds were provided as part of The Patchwork Meadow project which aims … Read more
21st December, the Winter Solstice, marks the shortest day and longest night of the year. In 2020 artists and cultural institutions across the Midlands come together to provide hundreds of … Read more
Thomas, or Tom for short, was the third child of Arthur and Alice Mawby who, originally from Bristol, now found themselves living in Summerhill Street near to the Jewellery Quarter. … Read more
So Much More Than Just Thomas’ wife Mary was born into relative privilege in 1832, something she never took for granted as her later life would show. She Married Thomas … Read more
