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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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…
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…
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,…
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…
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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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…
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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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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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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