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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?