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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I have been volunteering at the Back to Back houses in Hurst Street for almost a year now and decided it would be nice to share a little about my experience so far. The Back to Back houses were originally restored by the ...
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On Saturday morning, 2nd March, a group of volunteers got together in the back room of the Shakespeare Inn, just round the corner from the Coffin Works, to start work on researching the Newman Brothers’ archive. Julie and Rachel begin work on the Newman ...
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We are delighted to introduce one of our new volunteers Sairah Rehman who has written the first feature in our new website Features pages. Sairah has recently graduated with an MA in Eighteenth Century Studies from the University of York. She tells us, “My ...
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Our candle-lit tours of Newman Brothers start this week. We are delighted we have sold over 75% of available tickets – but we still have some spaces on Wednesday and Thursday, so don’t delay; buy today! In readiness for the start of the ...
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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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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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Last Saturday I took part in an army style assault course ‘Major Series’ organised by British Military Fitness at Weston Park to raise some money for Birmingham Conservation Trust. It involved mud, smoke, water, obstacles, dirt, hills and more mud. It was a ...
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