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Museum of the Jewellery Quarter bronze plaque

Birmingham, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Museum of the Jewellery Quarter bronze plaque

Museum of the Jewellery Quarter This working museum, which opened in February 1992, is a branch of Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery. It incorporates the former Smith & Pepper jewellery works. The company was founded by Charles Smith and his uncle Edwin Pepper in 1899, and specialised in gold brace

lets and other jewellery until it closed down in 1981. When the company closed, all the tools, machinery and papers were left behind. Now the building and its contents together with the former premise

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