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We’ve clocked its age at last!

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

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Dead Fashionable

Fashion designers have always looked to the past for inspiration. Dior’s ‘revolutionary’ New Look was inspired by the corseted waists and full skirts of the

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the reels of purple sewing thread in a box
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Home of Metal Shroud

  I volunteer for both The Coffin Works and Home of Metal. In my spare time I like to sew. The Shroud Room is my

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From Coffins to Caskets: An American History

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Possibly Newman Brothers' first coffin furniture catalogue, circa 1894. Familiar with brass since 1882, they continued to use this material in their new business venture producing coffin furniture from 1894 onwards.
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From Cabinets to Coffins

One of the most common questions people seem to have in relation to Newman Brothers is ‘why did a coffin-furniture manufactory choose the Jewellery Quarter

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