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The Jewellery Quarter

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Welcome Roy,
Was your aunt Phyllis Nicklin, the photographer and Geography Lecturer?
https://www.thegridproject.org.uk/nicklin-index.html

If so, you would find her on Ancestry and could contact the tree owner and through them other relatives. Living people are not named on Ancestry, but if you know the family you can work out who is who. And the tree owner can grant you permission to see their tree.
Derek
 
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Came across these pictures on"28 Days Later" of the Century Buildings built by the Ahronsberg Brothers, Jewellers & Goldsmiths and dating back to 1901.They are on the corner of Powell Street and semi-derelict.
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The Century Buildings were built around 1901, to a design by Hipkiss Stephens of Birmingham. It incorporated a dwelling of around 1794, and has some later 20th century alterations and additions. The building itself is Grade II listed.

The 1794 house is thought to have been built for the Oughton family, and was occupied from around 1810 by Henry Adcock, a jeweller, gilt toy maker and button and bead manufacturer. In 1901, the site was purchased by Messrs. Ahronsberg Brothers, jewellers, who converted the premises to a goldsmiths and jewellery factory. The original Ahronsberg Bros name is shown in the stone work.

In recent years, the building has stood empty, having only accommodated short term tenants before. Plans are now afoot to convert the buildings into 46 student flats. I suspect they are too far gone for conversion to flats and I think the site is likely to be cleared for newbuild. Full story can be read on this wonderful site at
www.28dayslater.co.uk

Report - - Ahronsberg Bros Jewellers and Goldsmiths - Birmingham - May 2016 | Industrial Sites

It was only the other day i was thinking that the Jewellery Quarter seemed to be all said and done nowadays, then this turns up! The quarter has always been one of the UE hotspots of Birmingham, a formerly industrial area, narrowly saved from 1960s development and now part way through a...
www.28dayslater.co.uk www.28dayslater.co.uk
 
great superdad...i love the 28 days later site as they get into buildings i would love to :D ..looking at the photos on the site there are still some nice redeeming features inside the building..love the old spiral staircase..will have to keep our eyes on this one

lyn
 
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