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
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
A Drab Thoroughfare with a Glamorous Name Street of Opportunity A Visit to Fleet Street Birmingham by Tudor Jones, 4th August 1953 In London,
My dad died earlier this month. In the last weeks of his life he knew he was dying and this gave us (myself and my
I volunteer for both The Coffin Works and Home of Metal. In my spare time I like to sew. The Shroud Room is my
Two years ago I wrote about the evolution of the coffin in a blog entitled ‘From Coffins to Caskets: an American History’, so two years
The stage was set for the arrival of the coffin furniture trade in Birmingham as early as the first quarter of the eighteenth century, when
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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
