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unusual facts about Jewellery Quarter



Argent Centre

The Argent Centre is a Grade II* listed building on the corner of Frederick Street and Legge Road in the Jewellery Quarter of Birmingham, England.

Birmingham Assay Office

The Birmingham Assay Office moved from the pub in 1815 to its own offices at Little Cannon Street and then moved to its current home on Newhall Street in the Jewellery Quarter in 1877, and is now the largest Assay Office in Europe, hallmarking 13 million articles in 2003.

Birmingham City Centre

The Midland Metro system, opened in 1999, terminates at Snow Hill station and has stops at St Paul's and the Jewellery Quarter.

Warstone Lane Cemetery

It is one of two cemeteries located in the city's Jewellery Quarter, in Hockley (the other being Key Hill Cemetery).


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