Description
In this book, local artist Ed Isaacs PRBSA has recorded his impressions of the neighbourhood – an area that has true distinctiveness and an ability to surprise.
The network of streets just north and west of Birmingham’s city centre is home to the manufacture of around 40% of the jewellery made in Britain. Not surprisingly it is called the ‘Jewellery Quarter’. The area started to be developed in the eighteenth century and much of its late Georgian and Victorian fabric remains today. The original mix of workshops, shops and housing has been given extra piquancy by trendy bars, restaurants, loft apartments and galleries. The area is very much part of the city’s urban renaissance.
