‘Heritage Walks’ to launch in Birmingham Jewellery Quarter

The Birmingham Museum Trust has announced that it will launch a series of heritage walks allowing visitors to understand the history of the city’s famous jewellery quarter. 

The Jewellery Quarter Heritage Walks will allow visitors to explore the themes, people and places that once helped to make the area the largest centre of jewellery production in the world.

The heritage walks will be organised by the Museum of the Jewellery Quarter and will take place on August 15 and October 3, between 2pm and 4pm.

Oliver Buckley, property manager at Birmingham Museum Trust, said: “The Jewellery Quarter has been described as a national treasure and a place of unique character. The Georgian and Victorian houses of the Jewellery Quarter largely housing the trade gives us one of the last surviving examples in Britain of the transition from a domestic economy to an industrial one.

“These heritage walks will focus on the jewellery trade but also encompass many other aspects of the Jewellery Quarter’s rich history that placed Birmingham firmly on the national and international map.”