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6th April 2022
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Coffin Works wins ‘Small Visitor Attraction of the Year’ in West Midlands Tourism Awards

By Sarah Hayes | At The Coffin Works, Awards, Blogs | No Comments
The Coffin Works Museum secured the prestigious award for ‘Small Visitor Attraction of the Year’ in the West Midlands Tourism Awards, in partnership with Visit England. The category commends small...
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10th March 2022
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It’s all in a name: finding Jane Saunders

By Sarah Hayes | Blogs, Blogs, Collection | No Comments

A couple of weeks ago, I published a blog about our recent exciting research findings at Newman Brothers. Thanks to the 1921 census, we now have a host of new…

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8th March 2022
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All the Single Ladies, Well Nearly

By Sarah Hayes | At The Coffin Works, Blogs, Uncategorised | No Comments

For International Women’s Day we’re looking back at our most recent research on the 1921 census and our theme is Working Women. Of the 32 employees at Newman Brothers in…

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27th January 2021
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We’ve clocked its age at last!

By Sarah Hayes | Blogs | No Comments

Our clocking-in machine or ‘time recorder’ has been central to welcoming visitors since the Coffin Works opened in 2014. Visitors take their admissions tickets and ‘clock in’ for a tour,…

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8th July 2020
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Volunteers work on a shroud

Dead Fashionable

By Karen Cameron | Blogs, Volunteering | No Comments

Fashion designers have always looked to the past for inspiration. Dior’s ‘revolutionary’ New Look was inspired by the corseted waists and full skirts of the Victorian era whilst Chanel’s spring…

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8th April 2020
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Little Stairways With Surprises at the Top: a Visit to Fleet Street, August 1953

By Sarah Hayes | At The Coffin Works, Blogs | No Comments
A Drab Thoroughfare with a Glamorous Name   An image of Fleet Street, 1953, showing a perspective that looks as though it includes Newman Brothers. ©Birmingham Daily Gazette Street of Opportunity ...
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7th January 2020
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Re-Creating a Classic Coffin Handle Finish (or trying to)!

By Karen Cameron | Uncategorised | No Comments

My dad died earlier this month. In the last weeks of his life he knew he was dying and this gave us (myself and my brother and sisters) an opportunity…

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27th August 2019
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Home of Metal Shroud

By Karen Cameron | Volunteering | No Comments
I volunteer for both The Coffin Works and Home of Metal. In my spare time I like to sew. The Shroud Room is my favourite with all the vintage sewing...
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18th August 2019
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The Evolution of the English Shroud: from single sheet to draw-strings and sleeves

By Sarah Hayes | Uncategorised | No Comments
Two years ago I wrote about the evolution of the coffin in a blog entitled ‘From Coffins to Caskets: an American History’, so two years on it seems timely to...
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16th February 2018
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Origins of Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter

By Sarah Hayes | Uncategorised | No Comments
The stage was set for the arrival of the coffin furniture trade in Birmingham as early as the first quarter of the eighteenth century, when the leather and textile trades...
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