Over the past couple weeks, one of our volunteers, Lindsay, has been looking into the accounting ledgers of the Newman Brothers’ business. She has written
In April 1892, a lease was signed for a plot of land on Fleet Street in Birmingham. On the surface, it was a typical legal
We have started to look at the original Newman Brothers accounting ledgers and have done some preliminary work to analyse the figures. This isn’t an
We were shocked and deeply saddened to hear of the death of Nick Booth — a long-standing Trustee of Birmingham Conservation Trust (BCT), an exceptional
2024 just got better, as we recently received the news that our grant submission to Garfield Weston Foundation was successful! As such we have been
In the early 2000s I attended a Church Monuments Society tour in the south of England. At one particular church, the leader of the tour
Help us diversify our audiences and leave a lasting legacy of inclusive engagement at the Coffin Works Museum. We are very excited
The Coffin Works is one of 26 museums nationwide to receive a Museum Estate and Development Fund (MEND) grant! The Department for Culture, Media and
The Coffin Works Museum is pleased yet again to have been shortlisted for a Museum+Heritage Award, this time in the category of Volunteer(s) of the
We know a lot about the Newman Brothers, but not so much about the Newman Sisters, and there were four of them. Thanks to census
Since we opened the museum nearly ten years ago, the mystery of Edwin Newman has flummoxed us. Frustratingly we’ve never been able to determine why
I first spoke to Vickie in the summer of 2015, when she phoned to say that she’d visited the Coffin Works at the weekend, been
