A couple of months ago BCT staff and some of our inquisitive research volunteers went to the Erdington warehouse to look for the Newman Brothers business records. We couldn’t find some of the storage crates we were looking for as they ...
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Birmingham Conservation Trust are currently preparing the Activity Plan for the Heritage Lottery Bid for £1.3m to restore the former Stirchley Baths and bring the building back into use as a community building. Place Prospectors are also part of the development team ...
read moreAt the beginning of April TNT News Team came to Coffin Works to report on the pre-restoration phase of the project, as we packed up the final boxes of contents. This is the first in a series of reports during restoration work ...
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It has been a while since I wrote my last confessions piece. I tend to write these when I’ve either been camping out at The Coffin Works for a few days in succession or haven’t been near a desk in a while! This time ...
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I was there when the Film Production Club from Joseph Chamberlain College spent the afternoon filming last January at The Coffin Works. It was a light day, calm, friendly, with a bunch of incredibly polite and nice young people. Oh, the power of ...
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Do you want to be part of an exciting 21st century heritage conservation project? Are you looking for an interesting and creative volunteer role? bITjAM Ltd is working with Birmingham Conservation Trust on a project to develop interactive digital tours of The Coffin Works in Birmingham, ready ...
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Below is the press release which went out earlier this week about the Growing Places Fund Grant for the Coffin Works project. A 19th century Grade II* listed building in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter is set to be transformed into a base for thriving ...
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Do you have a passion for Birmingham’s heritage? You could be just the person we need. We are looking for volunteer trustee directors who have a real enthusiasm for saving significant historic buildings and involving people in the process. Who you are You may be ...
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News of the recent Coffin Works tours reached Graham Webb who now lives in Belgium, but is still a member of Birmingham History Forum. He got in touch to say he worked next door! I dug a little deeper and he has ...
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In this latest feature from our volunteer Sairah Rehman on Death in Christianity, Sairah offers us food for thought; questioning her own knowledge about Christian traditions and digging a little bit deeper into the history of cremation in this country. A very interesting read! If you ...
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