At the beginning of April TNT News Team came to Coffin Works to report on the pre-restoration phase of the project, as we packed up the final boxes of contents. This is the first in a series of reports during restoration work ...
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Last weekend I was acting as a steward for some of the last public tours of the Coffin Works before work commences in July. During a tour, one of our visitors described to the group the concept of the life preserving coffin. ...
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I was there when the Film Production Club from Joseph Chamberlain College spent the afternoon filming last January at The Coffin Works. It was a light day, calm, friendly, with a bunch of incredibly polite and nice young people. Oh, the power of ...
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Below is the press release which went out earlier this week about the Growing Places Fund Grant for the Coffin Works project. A 19th century Grade II* listed building in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter is set to be transformed into a base for thriving ...
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In this latest feature from our volunteer Sairah Rehman on Death in Christianity, Sairah offers us food for thought; questioning her own knowledge about Christian traditions and digging a little bit deeper into the history of cremation in this country. A very interesting read! If you ...
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After some fantastic news reports in the past, we have asked the TNT News Team from Ladywood, led by Norman Bartlett, to report on the restoration project for us and keep us updated on the on-site progress when the contractors have taken ...
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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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Hi, my name is Clare Overton Lewis, by day I’m a biomedical scientist but in my free time I love taking photographs. My main interests are architectural details but I also love black and white photography and abstract photography. I’m looking forward to ...
read moreUnfortunately we have had to cancel the Sunday tours and well as Saturday. It is still snowing in the Jewellery Quarter, conditions are freezing and BBC WM says that conditions on the roads are worse than yesterday. The advice is again not to ...
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We will capture on film some of the stories of what it was like to work in the Shroud Room This week the Trust welcomed the first members of the team who will be making the Coffin Works come to life as a ...
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