We're back in the Jewellery Quarter to see 'the-you-know-what' in wax. Whilst there we visit the Jewellery Museum and take the guided tour of an old Jewellery factory that has remained in situ, so to speak, since it closed down in 1981 (having opened in 1899). These are the machines at which women polished gold, got their hair tangled in the gubbins, or lost an eye when a belt snapped. Health and Safety? Pah!
Old Bluebird Toffees (also made in Birmingham) tin made a handy receptacle for a workers bits and bobs.
The Joseph Chamberlain Clock Tower.
And when it was built.
We took a lot more images but David hadn't loaded the memory card properly and so most of them have been lost. It's his age, y'know.
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