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
Sarah Hayes
January 27, 2021
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
Another addition to the ever growing online collection at The Coffin Works Archive.
