Happy New Year to all our followers! Here at BCT we’ve started the year very positively as we welcome to the team our first member of staff for the Coffin Works Project. Yesterday Sarah Hayes took up the post of Collections and Exhibitions ...
read moreAuthor Kate Mayfield visited Newman Brothers earlier in the year and she blogged about her visit in her Blog http://everycityisasmalltown.blogspot.co.uk/ Kate tells us in her latest blog about Newman Brothers that; “The Newman Brothers Coffin Fitting Works left such an impression upon me that I ...
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Photographs 1 & 2 – Part of a broader sequence of images showing the restoration of each room taking place over time. Photograph 3 – Windows being restored internally. Photographs credit: Jane Baker A lot has changed since I was last on site. The Newman ...
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We are delighted to welcome Helen Shute to our Board of Trustees. Helen started last month and brings with her a wealth of expertise in branding, marketing and membership (amongst other things, she is full of good advice!) so we are really ...
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Newman Brothers at the Coffin Works will be the Trust’s debut heritage attraction. You may remember the National Trust took on the ownership of our last major rescue project; the Birmingham Back to Backs. It is a tremendously exciting time for the Trust, ...
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Simon, Alistair and me! It’s fairly true to say that Newman Brothers Coffin Fitting Works first came to the public’s attention in 2003 when it was one of three buildings featured in the regional heats of the series ‘Restoration’, aired on BBC2 and ...
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The wait is over! We are delighted to announce that our The Friday Photo wall calendar – Historic Birmingham 2014 – is now available. It is a limited print run, so please don’t delay and buy yours today!!! We are promoting it as ‘the ...
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The Friday Photo has proved such a success that we decided to make a selection of Tracey and Clare’s images into a calendar which will be on sale in a couple of weeks. So, hold fire on your calendar purchases, stocking fillers and ...
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Exciting times. We are recruiting!! In summer 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 Grade II* listed, made coffin fittings of every description for over 100 ...
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Mid October and the FWA construction team has just received permission to carry on with the renovation of the pitched (felted) roof of the 19th century wing to make it permanently watertight and safe. In order to put on a new roof, the ...
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