This year, the Coffin Works has welcomed two heritage interns through a grant funded through the Art Fund and Student Art Pass. Harry, one of
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
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
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
The Coffin Works Museum secured the prestigious award for ‘Small Visitor Attraction of the Year’ in the West Midlands Tourism Awards, in partnership with Visit
A couple of weeks ago, I published a blog about our recent exciting research findings at Newman Brothers. Thanks to the 1921 census, we now
For International Women’s Day we’re looking back at our most recent research on the 1921 census and our theme is Working Women. Of the 32
Our clocking-in machine or ‘time recorder’ has been central to welcoming visitors since the Coffin Works opened in 2014. Visitors take their admissions tickets and
