Sarah Hayes | Coffin Works | Home of Newman Brothers Museum

Author: sarahhayes

Bio: Newman Brothers at The Coffin Works is a new visitor attraction located on the edge of the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham. This time-capsule building and its contents tells the story of Newman Brothers, Birmingham’s last coffin-furniture factory who operated from their Fleet Street premises for over 100 years until 1998 when workers lay down their equipment, and walked out of the building for the very last time, leaving everything, including personal belongings behind.

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The Coffin Works to receive £25,935 grant!

April 2, 2021 | Coffin Works, Uncategorized | Sarah Hayes | 0

The Coffin Works, among more than 2,700 recipients to benefit from the latest round of awards from the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund. The Coffin Works in...
The Quarter Workshop is Returning!

March 25, 2021 | Coffin Works, Events, Uncategorized | Sarah Hayes | 0

2021 marks the Quarterworkshop’s seventh year at the Coffin Works! For Owner and jeweller, Victoria Delaney, this year is extra-special as she is expecting her own precious...
International Women’s Day at Newman Brothers

March 8, 2021 | Birmingham History, British History and Tradition, Coffin Works, Newman Brothers, Uncategorized, Volunteer Stories | Sarah Hayes | 0

Newman Brothers has a proud history of loyal and highly skilled workers, many of them women, who worked through wars, industrial changes and had to fight to prove they were...
Funeral Poverty

February 4, 2021 | Coffin Works, Newman Brothers, Uncategorized | Sarah Hayes | 0

Laura Joyce, partner on our Arts Council funded ‘Dead Fashionable’ project, reflects on some of its teachings in the wake of Covid-19. One of the reasons that...
Remembering Colin Meager: friend and colleague

January 20, 2021 | Coffin Works, Newman Brothers, Volunteer Stories | Sarah Hayes | 1

It is with profound sadness that we announce the death of Colin Meager, a friend and volunteer of Birmingham Conservation Trust and the Coffin Works. Our sincere thoughts are with...
The Coffin Works Museum receives lifeline grant from Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund

October 17, 2020 | Birmingham History, Coffin Works, Uncategorized | Sarah Hayes | 0

The Coffin Works has been awarded £53,500 as part of the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund (CRF) to help face the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and to...
The Coffin Works Museum is Re-opening!

September 22, 2020 | Coffin Works, Newman Brothers | Sarah Hayes | 0

We’ve missed you! After six months of temporary closure, we’re excited to announce that we are finally opening our doors on 30th October, which coincides with our...
Temporary closure updates at the Coffin Works Museum

March 17, 2020 | Uncategorized | Sarah Hayes | 0

Following the Government’s advice to avoid all non-essential contact we have taken the decision to close the Coffin Works to the public from Wednesday 18th March until Monday...
A Poem of a Review! Ghost Stories For Christmas

January 4, 2019 | Uncategorized | Sarah Hayes | 0

What a Joy, what a pleasure, a wonderful treat to visit the Coffin Works on old Brum’s Fleet Street Newman Brother’s factory, the place to be Ghost Stories for...
Review: Pandemonium of Poe

November 28, 2018 | Coffin Works, Events, Newman Brothers | Sarah Hayes | 0

What can I say about the Pandemonium of Poe, other than the production by the Don’t Go in the Cellar theatre company in early November was simply superb! The performance...