Birmingham Discovering the Jewellery Quarter Tour

Discovering Birmingham and the Jewellery Quarter - Positively Birmingham Tour No. 3
We use a live audio system - the guide wears a transmitter and our guests wear a receiver. You hear every word even if you are well away making it perfect for social distancing and also ideal for those with impaired hearing.
Understand how Birmingham developed and see that many of today’s ways of working have deep roots in our past. A real investigation into today's city in the context of the history of this centre of the industrial revolution now facing up to the future in a determined way. In particular we explore:
• Earlier times – medieval origins
• From Georgian entrepreneurs to Victorian idealists
• Jewellery Quarter
• Canal city
• An artistic side
• Today's city developing for the future.
This 2 hour walking tour gives a great introduction to the city and will be of interest equally to local people and visitors alike.

Tours start/finish: Library of Birmingham front entrance

Meeting Point

Library of Birmingham

1 Centenary Sq, Birmingham B1 2EA, UK

Sunday tour starts 13:30 at: Front entrance of the new Library of Birmingham in Centenary Square, B1 2EA. Please arrive 5-10 min before departure time. Tour is 1 3/4 hour appoximately and finishes back at Library of Birmingham.

What's included:

• Local guide
• We loan an audio receiver so you can hear the guides talking even from a distance.

Not included:

• There are no entry tickets required for this tour.

What to expect:

Duration: 2 hours

Centenary Square

Broad St., Birmingham, B1 2AE

We start here and introduce the tour. We learn a lot about the city from things in and around the Square.

20 minutes

Jewellery Quarter

Birmingham

We enter the Jewellery Quarter by a secret canal route that even locals do not use. We learn about the way the Jewellery Quarter developed and the different types of business that developed from Gergian times. We see the way the modern Quarter is taking its place in today's city.

30 minutes

St. Paul's Church

St. Paul's Square, Hockley, Birmingham, B3 1QU

Known as the Jewellery Quarter church we view the outside of this lovely 1779 example of Georgian architecture.

Pass by without stopping

Birmingham Cathedral

Cathdral Square, Colmore Row, , Birmingham, B3 2QB

We look at this fine English Baroque cathedral. On occasions if there is time and not conflciting events we may go in and experience the Edward Burne-Jones stained glass

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

St. Chad's Cathedral

St. Chad's, Queensway, Birmingham, B4 6EQ

We view St Chads from the inner ring road. We appreciate only too well the issues with post-war redevelopment when the car was king. We decide for ourselves if Birmingham has a planned redevelopment.

Pass by without stopping

Victoria Square

Birmingham, B1 1BD

Having seen St Philip's Cathedral and lots more in between we return towards the Library of Birmingham by several important city Squares.

10 minutes

Chamberlain Square

Birmingham, B3 3HQ

We see this renovated square and understand more about the way the modern city is reconfiguring for the future.

5 minutes