New Futures for Birmingham`s Historic Buildings

Play for time at Coffin Fittings Works

Posted May 23rd, 2011 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with No Comments

The cast of Stop the Clocks in rehearsal at the Coffin Fittings Works Book your tickets now for Stop The Clocks! This site specific play has been devised and will be performed by the Tin Box Company. The directors,  Jo Gleave and Jo Newman, have worked ...

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Unique drama at the Coffin Fittings Works

Posted April 28th, 2011 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with No Comments

Stop The Clocks Putting the hearse into rehearsals – a team of Birmingham University drama students and their directors – are beginning an exciting venture at the Coffin Fittings Works. Birmingham Conservation Trust welcomes Tin Box theatre company who have been busily devising their ...

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Mystery, murder and suspense – ghosts from the past at the Coffin Fittings Works

Posted April 20th, 2011 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with No Comments

Join the Birmingham Ghost Walk - dare to be scared! Uncover the ghosts of years gone by joining one of the Birmingham Ghost Walk s – now extended to include the Coffin Fittings Works on Fleet Street.We can’t promise you’ll see any ghosts, but you will ...

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Industrial Heritage at Risk

Posted April 15th, 2011 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with No Comments

English Heritage has launched a project to find out how much of the country’s industrial heritage is at risk of neglect, decay or even demolition, and to raise the debate about what needs saving and how. In October this year it will ...

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Visit the Coffin Fittings Works!

Posted September 6th, 2010 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with 2 Comments

Come and visit us on Saturday September 11th and see inside the Coffin Fittings Works. We will be delighted to show you round,  explain the processes of manufacture and tell you some of the stories of Newman Brothers. When we last opened, we had some ...

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The dark corners of the coffin works – photoset

Posted October 31st, 2009 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with No Comments

Genesis4626 took this wonderful set of images of Newman Brothers back in September.  They capture the atmosphere of the dark corners of the old works.

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Gethin Thomas’s images of the Newmans Brothers

Posted October 30th, 2009 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with No Comments

More images of Newman Brothers – this time from Gethin Thomas.

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Another set of images from the Coffin works.

Posted October 29th, 2009 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with No Comments

The images above were taken of Newman Brother’s coffin works on September 11th 2009 by the Birmingham Flickr Group member keshvala.  If you look at keshvala’s other photos you’ll see their passion for Birmingham’s historic buildings.

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Brian Simpson’s remarkable photos of Newman Brothers

Posted October 28th, 2009 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with No Comments

Brian Simpson was one of a number of members of the Birmingham Flickr group who visited Newman Brother’s coffin work in September to take photo’s of the building.  Below is his set of images.

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The Birmingham Post reports the plight of Newman Brothers.

Posted September 16th, 2009 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with No Comments

Newman Brothers by Brian Simpson on flickr, click on the image for the original As our effort to encourage AWM to think afresh about it’s commitment to the Coffin Works the Birmingham Post reports what’s going on: Birmingham Conservation Trust, which has been working ...

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