A Week In Necropolis – lessons learnt from the dead
My name is Elli Szarka and and today is the last of 5 days I have spent working with the Birmingham Conservation Trust as part of my post-GCSE work experience, just as everyone was getting even more caught up in the restoration ...
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Tales of Ritual and Remembrance – a ‘candle-literary’ event at The Coffin Works
Join an undertaker (Brian Parsons), an undertaker’s daughter (Kate Mayfield), and a Victorian gothic novelist (Essie Fox) for a fascinating candle-literary evening which is taking place on October 8th in the Shroud Room of the newly restored Coffin Works in Birmingham’s Jewellery ...
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A new future for the ‘Cadbury Barn’ at Manor Farm Park?
If you have been to Manor Farm Park, just off the Bristol Road between Selly Oak and Northfield, you’ll have noticed the ‘Cadbury Barn’ at the main entrance which is semi-derelict and boarded up. Birmingham Conservation Trust has been commissioned to prepare an ‘Options Appraisal’, ...
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We are recruiting again! Learning Manager Vacancy at Newman Brothers
As you will know by now (but please keep on spreading the word!) at the end of October 2014, Birmingham Conservation Trust is opening an industrial heritage attraction located in Birmingham’s historic Jewellery Quarter. The Newman Brothers factory, built in 1894 and ...
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My First Research Project for BCT; The Standard Works
Hello, my name is Zeta Sutcliffe. I was widowed at the end of last year, and decided I needed a project to keep my mind fully occupied, and to fill my evenings. I approached Birmingham Conservation Trust in the hope they would ...
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Isobel’s Experience with the Birmingham Conservation Trust
My name is Isobel Greathead and I have done a year 10 work experience placement with the Birmingham Conservation Trust. With it only being a few months until the Newman Brothers at the Coffin Works opens to the public in the Jewellery ...
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Historic Curzon Street Station to Host Hidden Spaces Exhibition
Something very exciting to share with you … here is the press release! Associated Architects is offering the public a unique opportunity to visit the Grade I listed Curzon Street Station this month, as it opens its doors to play host to an ...
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Help us bring Newman Brothers back to life. Get involved!
Now that our Volunteer and Operations Manager Marie is in post the recruitment drive is on for volunteers to join our team at Newman Brothers, at the Coffin Works, when we open in October. (Yes, unfortunately due to a delay in the ...
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Just launched… Re-imagine; an ideas competition for creative re-use of Birmingham’s buildings at risk
Birmingham Civic Society and partner organisations are pleased to announce the launch of ‘Re-imagine’: a competition looking for creative ideas for the reuse of some of Birmingham’s most important and challenging buildings Why? Birmingham Civic Society is committed to the preservation of Birmingham’s ...
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