J.W. Evans Silver Factory in Birmingham’s historic Jewellery Quarter contains over a 100 years of history, a silverware factory founded in 1881 by Jenkin Evans and remained with the Evans family for four generations. Last month myself and other volunteers from BCT were ...
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Do you really know Birmingham?
Discover something new about Birmingham at the Birmingham Architecture Festival taking place over the bank holiday weekend of May 24th – 27th.
The theme for the festival is “Take a Second Look”. Over the weekend a range of events ...
We’d like to welcome another new volunteer – blogger to the BCT team – Sarah Ashley!
Sarah is originally from Herefordshire, but moved to Birmingham 4 years ago and lives in the Jewellery Quarter. She currently works for a big clothing store in the ...
Here at Birmingham Conservation Trust we are delighted to be working with so many new volunteers. Today it is my pleasure to introduce one of our new recruits – Nigel Evans – who is joining our team of bloggers!
Nigel has worked in ...
You may remember my blog post last month called ”It’s a tale about love”, reporting on the filming of ‘Circles’ at the Coffin Fitting Works?
Well, as promised, Director Reece Lipman has sent us a trailer to tease us! The building looks amazing!
Thanks Reece, we ...
Sorry, no punchline… but they do have in common a rich history of manufacturing in the Jewellery Quarter. They are also things that BCT, the Pen Room Museum and English Heritage are keen to share with school groups!
I (Suzanne) spent a really interesting couple of hours at ...
A joint day school is being run by the Birmingham Assay Office and Centre for West Midlands History on Saturday 23rd June 10-4pm at the University of Birmingham.
Four speakers will explore the Quarter’s history, heritage, contemporary crafts and jewellery and silver manufacturing.
Cost ...
Shimmer-Man Productions have shot their new short film called ‘Circles’ at our wonderful Newman Brother’s Factory – inspired by the Tin Box theatre production there ‘Stop the Clocks’ in 2011.
Producer Stephanie told us why she chose it as a film set; “It is ...
We have a fantastic opportunity to double any donations for the Coffin Works and we need your help! The Pilgrim Trust will match pound for pound any donations given via The Big Give website between 5th and 22nd December up to a ...
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On Heritage Open Days weekend, Shabana Mahmood the local MP, visited our project and had a great time. Here’s what she had to say about it
Shabana Mahmood at the Coffin Fittings Works
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