Running, Gardening, Creative Industries

My new workplace

This is what’s oppostite my new workplace in Camden street, Jewellery Quarter. I believe it’s a former GKN works (due for redevelopment - item F on this map) but is now where the smokers from where I work hang out.

Having trumpeted my return to working in the Jewellery Quarter I actually find myself in a rather undeveloped corner of it which still has large empty factories and small, usually busy, warehouses. That’s  fine as I like undeveloped corners of the city and walking from the centre to here takes you through the back of the library - now there’s a nice messy undeveloped bit.

I work in the B1 building which has the following benefits:

  • It sells okay Starbucks coffee for half what it costs on the high street.
  • The cafe doesn’t understand portion control for cakes.
  • It is close to the canal networks for pre, during or post work runs.
  • It has shower facilities for the above.

Working in the Jewellery Quarter generally has the following benefits:

  • Banks (and therefore cashpoints).
  • A supermarket.
  • Newsagents that stock newspapers.
  • People - both work people and customers for shops.
  • Lots and lots of place for lunch.
  • A train station
  • A diverse population of blue and white collar workers.

In a fight between Digbeth and Jewellery Quarter I wonder who’d win?

October 10, 2008 | Filed Under Birmingham, Creative Industries 

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2 Responses to “My new workplace”

  1. greg on October 10th, 2008

    No contest Dave. As a JQ resident who has just opened an Art Gallery in Diggers, there is only one winner, and it doesn’t being with D. Love the photos btw. I will come and visit soon. G.

  2. Trav28 on October 12th, 2008

    I think the JW is fab and the architecture/fittings are fantastic!

    This locale was really superb to shoot photos in:

    _MG_7380i by Trav28 on Flickr

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