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Tickets are selling fast for 27th June visit – so don’t delay, book your place today! Call now to reserve a place – £12.00   Tel 0871 871 6020 or email silver@theassayoffice.co.uk The Birmingham Assay Office is pleased to announce that it is uniquely opening its doors to the General Public and offering limited places on its popular Silver Collection Visits programme – on ONE DAY ONLY. Usually these Visits are only available to organised groups, so this is a…

Regulations for the UK have been in force since 1st March 2013. All items which are to be sold in the UK which are intended to come into prolonged and direct contact with the skin must also comply with these new regulations - BS EN 1811: 2011. The Laboratory at The Birmingham Assay Office has responded to these changes and now offers both a UKAS accredited Full Nickel Release test (EN 1811:2011) and a UKAS Accredited Quick Nickel Release test (2011) to check that they comply with new Nickel…

The more we raise the more people we can help.  Encouragement from cash and cheque donations are also welcome.  Please make cheques out to Muscular Dystrophy.

Bernard retired as Assay Master of the Birmingham Assay Office at Christmas 1998. In a very emotional moment he told everyone at the Assay Office that they held a great place in his heart, "my other family" as he described them, and at a big bash thrown in his honour, he was given a standing ovation worthy of a monarch. Bernard said at the time "Looking back at my life, I must say, I have no regrets. There have been bad times, but I have been very fortunate throughout in my working life a…