New Futures for Birmingham`s Historic Buildings

“A life-preserving coffin in doubtful cases of death”.

Posted May 3rd, 2013 by Julie Webb with 1 Comment

Last weekend I was acting as a steward for some of the last public tours of the Coffin Works before work commences in July.  During a tour, one of our visitors described to the group the concept of the life preserving coffin. ...

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The Coffin Works as a location for the imagination!

Posted April 22nd, 2013 by Suzanne Carter with No Comments

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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Historical Birmingham coffin works to be transformed with support from GBSLEP

Posted April 19th, 2013 by Suzanne Carter with No Comments

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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Death in Christianity feature

Posted April 15th, 2013 by Suzanne Carter with No Comments

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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TNT News Team are back!

Posted April 9th, 2013 by Suzanne Carter with No Comments

After some fantastic news reports in the past, we have asked the TNT News Team from Ladywood, led by Norman Bartlett, to report on the restoration project for us and keep us updated on the on-site progress when the contractors have taken ...

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Moving Day with Ernst & Young Volunteers.

Posted April 9th, 2013 by Suzanne Carter with No Comments

Last Friday all the remaining contents of The Coffin Works were packed up and shipped out as we get ready for the start of restoration work. We were joined by eight employees from Ernst & Young in Birmingham who took advantage of their ...

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Introducing a new member of the Friday Photo team!

Posted March 27th, 2013 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with No Comments

Hi, my name is Clare Overton Lewis, by day I’m a biomedical scientist but in my free time I love taking photographs. My main interests are architectural details but I also love black and white photography and abstract photography. I’m looking forward to ...

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Sunday 24th March Coffin Works tours cancelled

Posted March 24th, 2013 by Suzanne Carter with No Comments

Unfortunately we have had to cancel the Sunday tours and well as Saturday. It is still snowing in the Jewellery Quarter, conditions are freezing and BBC WM says that conditions on the roads are worse than yesterday.  The advice is again not to ...

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Lights, camera, action!

Posted March 22nd, 2013 by Suzanne Carter with No Comments

We will capture on film some of the stories of what it was like to work in the Shroud Room This week the Trust welcomed the first members of the team who will be making the Coffin Works come to life as a ...

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Time for celebration: Coffin Works restoration about to start!

Posted March 17th, 2013 by Suzanne Carter with No Comments

Birmingham Conservation Trust first became involved with the Coffin Works in 2001, when we carried out a feasibility study on the options for the future of the building.  The option that was chosen was to turn about half of the factory into ...

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