Hockley, Birmingham

Hockley, Birmingham

:"For the other place near Birmingham, see Hockley Heath."Hockley is a central district in the city of Birmingham, England. It lies about one mile north-west of the city centre, and is served by the Jewellery Quarter station. Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter continues to thrive in Hockley, and much of the original architecture and small artisan workshops have survived intact.

Kathleen Dayus born 1903 in Hockley wrote about the area between 1982 and 2000 in a series of books now brought together under the title 'The Girl from Hockley'.

Hockley is location of the Museum of the Jewellery Quarter and Birmingham Mint. Vittoria Street in Hockley is home to Birmingham Institute of Art and Design's Jewellery School, and The Big Peg arts & crafts workshop cluster is nearby. Housing in the area is generally characterised by well-built Victorian villas and terraces.

The "Hockley flyover" road interchange is an exemplary example of brutalist late-modernist concrete architecture.

Politics

Hockley lies within the Ladywood formal district and the constituency of Birmingham Ladywood.

History

Hockley has been the centre of the city's jewellery industry since the mid-1830s, evolving out of the city's earlier button, pin, buckle and toy trades. The Quarter's strong growth quickly eclipsed the jewellery trade in nearby Derby, which faded away, and the Quarter made a large proportion of the British Empire's fine jewellery.

Hockley was the first place in Birmingham to be connected to the city centre by a tram line, opened in 1873.

External links

* [http://www.virtualbrum.co.uk/hockley.htm Photos of Hockley]
* [http://www.birmingham-photos.co.uk/pb3/c5/C5TN.htm More photos of Hockley]


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