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The Team are running to support the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign (MD) which is a collective name for over sixty conditions that have one thing in common, a progressive weakening and wasting of the body’s muscles.  Over 70,000 babies, children and adults in the UK have some form of Muscular Dystrophy.  One of the most common forms is Duchenne MD which affects boys from birth, confining them to a wheelchair at a very early age. Most conditions result from a genetic fault and the majo…

The Birmingham Assay Office are proud to support the expo and the team are currently hard at work preparing for it. [caption id="attachment_5171" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Do not miss out - All Birmingham Made Me Events are FREE, and allow you free entry into Thinktank on the day you attend a Birmingham Made Me event. Click on the link to view the seminars and book your free place.

Looking forward to visiting the Museums & Heritage Show at Olympia tomorrow. Hope to attend some interesting and thought provoking seminars and to see some innovative ideas to help bring history and heritage to life and make it more relevant and meaningful to today's audience.

Following these talks, Sue Thomas will discuss the making of the Jewellery Quarter as a dissenting community in the early 19th Century and Simon Buteux, Director of the Birmingham Conservation Trust, will talk about the importance of heritage in the Quarter, including an update on the Newman Brothers Coffin Fitting Works. Finally, John Berkeley OBE, former Chairman of Brandauer Holdings (a long-established precision engineering firm on the edge of the Jewellery Quarter), will discuss t…