Jewellery Quarter Heritage

Issue 1 of Jewellery Quarter Heritage magazine is available again having just taken delivery of a reprint. Available from the main shopping site

Pen Musuem Returns!

Book your tickets from our website.

We’re open again from this weekend and can’t wait to welcome you! This is the first time we’ve been open in over a year, so it is pretty momentous for us.

Our Operations Manager, Volunteers and Trustees are looking forward to meeting visitors again.

The lengthy closure has given the museum a chance to experiment with its layout and develop new activities.

We are now currently opening on Fridays, Saturdays from11am to 5pm and Sundays from 1pm to 5pm.

Booking is now required and tickets booked via our website and our ticketing partner Art Fund.

Thank you to everyone who has supported our museum during the closure period we really do appreciate how difficult the last year has been.

If you would rather nip down to one of your local shops to purchase a copy of either Issue 1 or Issue 2 of The Jewellery Quarter Heritage Magazine now you can.

Frank Joiners (Super Store) are now stocking them in their shop on the Warstone Lane side of The Big Peg in The Jewellery Quarter.

At the moment this is the only place you can get these in the Jewellery Quarter.

(The Big Peg, 120 Vyse St, Birmingham B18 6NF)

Each issue is 84 pages, A5 size with laminated card cover. Price is £6.00 each

Issue 2 Out Now!
Published quarterly The Jewellery Quarter Heritage Magazine does a fantastic job of capturing the atmosphere of the old days in the area and how it has constantly changed and developed.
Rather than one large book -in fact, it would be an exceptionally large book, YBA Publications, the publishers decided on several smaller issues in the form of 84-page books with a glossy card cover released at roughly three-month intervals.
Mark Haddleton, the publisher says, “We can now see this is the right way to go and these will build up to be a ‘kind of encyclopaedia of what has happened over the centuries in the JQ.”
This first issue has been out for three months and starts with the early beginnings of Hockley as it was better known back then, and many of the early historical events that shaped the current Jewellery Quarter, plus a lot of other features and news from way back.
The second issue is also out and looks at The Argent Centre and pen trade in general plus more on refurbishment and restoration work. There are also around another 25 features, 17 news items on things made in the JQ you would not perhaps expect, and around 30 news items from way back, plus a few added then and now photos.
Marie Haddleton, editor says, “As we put one edition together the next is well underway as we seem to work on two together.”

Marie features and does not speak ......

Birmingham Science Museum This Short Film Was Made At The Old Birmingham Museum Of Science And Industry Before The Building Was Demolished in 2006

The Jewellery Quarter Heritage Magazine
At last the first issue is at the printers and below is the content of this first issue.

Published quarterly we capture the history and atmosphere of the developing Jewellery Quarter in print for future generations, as well as todays! Plus finding out some amazing facts and stories, some never told before!

On the 22nd August 2020, the process will begin to dismantle and remove the Chamberlain Clock to begin the extensive restoration project. This is how the JQ looked without the clock last time. Photo Mark Haddleton