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January 31, 2023 |
BCT, Birmingham History, Coffin Works |
Sarah Hayes |
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It’s been a year since we published our blog on the previously unknown Newman Brothers’ workforce we discovered as a result of the publication of the 1921 census. We were...
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January 20, 2022 |
Birmingham History, Coffin Works, Newman Brothers |
Claire McGibbon |
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Since beginning our research into the Newman Brothers’ workforce over eight years ago we always knew that we hadn’t got the complete story, largely because of missing ledgers...
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March 8, 2021 |
Birmingham History, British History and Tradition, Coffin Works, Newman Brothers, Uncategorized, Volunteer Stories |
Sarah Hayes |
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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...
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January 8, 2021 |
Birmingham History, Volunteer Stories |
Karen Cameron |
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A poem by Stephen Whyte Throughout the centuries Birmingham has been written many a way Since it was a settlement on the River Rea… Originating times of the Anglo-Saxon, It was...
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October 17, 2020 |
Birmingham History, Coffin Works, Uncategorized |
Sarah Hayes |
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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...
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September 28, 2020 |
Birmingham History |
Karen Cameron |
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There’s a canal at the bottom of Newhall Street in Birmingham. Did you know there was once a canal at the TOP of the hill as well? In the early hours of 28th September 1901 the...
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May 7, 2020 |
Birmingham History, Coffin Works, Newman Brothers |
Karen Cameron |
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It was a rainy morning and the bunting and flags were looking a little bedraggled already: children dressed in red, white and blue were determined that the weather wouldn’t...
