Last week Jon Bounds and I spent a night in London as part of some work we were doing. Both of us booked our hotel through the Birmingham Conservation Trust web shop: www.buy.at/birminghamconservation As a result the Conservation Trust took a proportion of each ...
read moreGenesis4626 took this wonderful set of images of Newman Brothers back in September. They capture the atmosphere of the dark corners of the old works.
read moreMore images of Newman Brothers – this time from Gethin Thomas.
read moreThe 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.
read moreBrian 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.
read moreOn Friday September 11th about 15 people from the Birmingham Flickr Group had a chance to wander around Newman Brothers. Above are many of the remarkable images they took. (To see the slideshow in full screen click here) Unfortunately the Coffin Works project ...
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This week we are confirming that Advantage West Midlands has withdrawn funding from the project to transform the Newman Brothers Coffin Fittings Factory in Fleet Street. It means that this Grade II* building on the at risk register is likely to remain ...
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Key Hill by Nicobobinus on flickr Next Monday will see the Friends of Key Hill cemetery celebrating the end of a £120,000 restoration of the Grade II listed entrance gates. It’s Birmingham’s oldest cemetery the work was to return the badly eroded sandstone piers ...
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Like lots of other organisations, the Birmingham Conservation Trust wouldn’t exist or be able to function without the time, enthusiasm and energy of our fabulous volunteers. So we thought we’d share a little bit about who some of them are and what ...
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Do you live in a conservation which you think is at risk? Have you had experience of regulations protecting conservation areas being eroded? English Heritage is approaching every local authority in the country for a first national survey of Conservation Areas as a ...
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