The Museum of the Jewellery Quarter

Birmingham, Birmingham, England

If the proprietors of this Smith and Pepper jewellery manufacturing firm decided to retire in 1981 they ceased trading and locked the door, unaware they might be leaving an occasion capsule for future generations.Tools had been left strewn on benches; grubby overalls had been hung regarding the coat hooks; and dirty teacups were abandoned alongside jars of marmite and jam regarding the shelf. Children is fascinated with the factory that is ordinary seemingly have been frozen with time.In the eighty years before its closure little changed with the working practices or equipment utilized inside the family owned company. Perhaps the decor had more in accordance with very early century that is twentieth than a thriving company within the early 1980s.Today the factory is an amazing museum, which tells the tale for the Jewellery Quarter and Birmingham's popular jewellery and metalworking history. You and your family can see a demonstration of exactly how jewellery was made without devices if you book a guided tour!

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