What a Joy, what a pleasure, a wonderful treat to visit the Coffin Works on old Brum’s Fleet Street Newman Brother’s factory, the place to
What can I say about the Pandemonium of Poe, other than the production by the Don’t Go in the Cellar theatre company in early November
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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Ellie began volunteering with us in April 2017, as part of her University of Birmingham MA placement in International Heritage Management. The placement was six
What’s the difference between a coffin and a casket? It’s a question I’d never entertained before working at Newman Brothers Coffin Works, but that’s the
‘If special widths are required, as used in Scotland and Ireland, an extra will be charged’. Those words grace the page of a Newman Brothers’
Yet another performance from ‘Don’t Go into the Cellar – Victorian theatre with bite! There are chills and chuckles in abundance with this original one-woman
Donna Taylor is a doctoral researcher at the University of Birmingham. She is currently writing a thesis on the origins of Birmingham Town Council and
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.
(on a mobile device? Click here to view on Youtube) Birmingham’s award winning museum Coffin Works invites you to ‘clock-in’ and watch this 360° taster tour
