Tickets for our Candle-lit tours of the wonderful Newman Brothers (with a Victorian Christmas theme, cup of hot choc and mince pie!) are ON SALE NOW! Over 50 gone in last two days, but we have lots of tours between Wed 12 ...
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Last week we said our ‘official’ farewell to Nick Booth who after ten years stepped down as a Trustee. You might remember me mentioning that due to our new Constitution, Trustees now only serve for a maximum of 3 years. It is ...
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We have just added a new Blogger Profiles page on the BCT website where you can find out about our wonderful team of BCT bloggers! If you are keen to share your thoughts, interests, pictures and passion for Birmingham’s rich historic environment and heritage and ...
read morePaul from Midlands Heritage has take some wonderful images inside Newman Brothers which we thought we’d share with you! See his flickr page… Paul has also put them all on a moving gallery on Youtube. It is just under 10 minutes long, but ...
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The theme of this year’s Heritage Counts focuses on resilience: the ability of heritage organisations to cope with issues that affect them. BCT are featured as a case study along with the West Midlands Waterways Partnership. They also use an image of Tin Box’s Stop ...
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A fond farewell again this month for another valued BCT team member. Social Media guru Nick Booth has come to the end of his term as a Trustee Director and yesterday at our AGM we said goodbye (officially), but we have no ...
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As the proud owners of Newman Brothers Coffin Fitting Works we are exploring the changing attitudes towards death through history. For the Victorians, funerals were lavish affairs, and you saved up your pennies to ensure your coffin was decorated with the best ...
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Please internet shop through our website links! We will get a donation from the company you buy from while you pay the same for your purchases! See the Amazon and Spend and Raise links at the top right of the home page. Thank you for ...
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We are delighted to introduce you to Kate Dickson, our new Interim Director here at BCT. Kate describes herself as ‘holding the fort’, until we make a new permanent Director appointment (deadline for applications 29 October), but we have no doubt that ...
read moreCoventry Transport Museum in partnership with the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum seek a Museum and Schools Programme Project Manager http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/job/4526112/museums-and-schools-project-manager/ While we are plugging other people’s opportunities, I’ll take this one to remind everyone that the deadline for our Trust Director vacancy is also 29 October. Back ...
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