View from Apres Bar on Summer Row Especially for Heritage Open Days on Sunday 15th September, our contractors Fairhurst Ward Abbotts Ltd will be leading visitors around Birmingham Conservation Trust’s Grade II* listed factory in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter. The Newman Bros. Coffin Works was purpose ...
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Here is a guest blog by Tim Franklin from Friction Arts: Much of Birmingham’s architectural heritage has already been lost. If it wasn’t cleared by the Luftwaffe, the council finished it off in the ‘60s and ‘70s. There may be photographs or architectural drawings, ...
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We recently found out that in the last 12 months over 23,000 unique visitors looked at our website! We like to think that a large number of these visitors have an interest in what we do here at the Trust. Certainly we ...
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Last week we introduced Sally and Katie, our newly recruited trustees. This week it is the turn of the men! We are delighted to introduce Andy Moody, Kenneth Fisher and Shane Kelleher to the team. Here is a little bit about them… 1. ...
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This looks an interesting way to spend a Sunday afternoon!
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Delighted to share a short film produced by the Arts and Humanities Research Council which investigates Suburban Birmingham; a collaborative research project which has succeeded in exposing the remarkable depth and richness of an 80-year period in the history of Birmingham’s south-western suburbs. One ...
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After more than 10 years of fundraising and development, Birmingham Conservation Trust has announced that work is starting on the city’s newest heritage attraction. On Monday 29th July, the keys of the Newman Brothers Coffin Fitting Works on Fleet Street in the Jewellery ...
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Appropriately enough, the very last pre-conservation visitors to the Coffin Works, on the afternoon of Wednesday 24 July, were members of the Conservation Course Directors Forum. The forum comprises the course directors from all the leading institutions, mainly universities, offering courses in building ...
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Birmingham Conservation Trust wishes to appoint a consultant to design the branding and website for the Coffin Works, a heritage attraction incorporating workshop/office units in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter, which will be opening in summer 2014. Time-scale Repair and conservation work on the building is ...
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I stumbled across this summer project which aims to understand what people like about their area, what makes different areas in Birmingham locally distinctive and what people would change. We know that historic buildings contribute significantly to people’s sense of place and community. ...
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