I am now just eight weeks out from the marathon, where has the time gone? As the weeks have passed and the mileage has gradually increased, the trepidation I felt at the challenge of covering the distance is slowly being replaced by ...
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February Half Term Holiday Fun! Join us on Friday 21st and Saturday the 22nd February between 10.00 and 12.00 OR 15.00-17.00 for a session which has been specifically designed with families in mind. Join our friendly guide to explore the Newman Brothers Factory, the ...
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The funeral of Sir Winston Churchill, the largest state funeral that had ever been mounted, took place on 30th January 1965. The nation mourned the death of the man who had led Britain to victory in the Second World War and who ...
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Ladywood History Group are holding a WWI exhibition this weekend – here are details from Norman Bartlam: Why not start your new year by visiting our World War I exhibition? It will be hell, er, held on Saturday 10 January and Sunday 11 January ...
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Wow! Next year will be an exciting one for Birmingham Cathedral – which reaches a ripe old milestone age! Here is their events brochure, so much to do – including booking onto a talk on Medieval Birmingham by our very own Sarah Hayes in ...
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Join us to honour the lives of four famous Brummies who rest in Birmingham’s cemeteries. Ian Braisby, from Midlands Discovery Tours, will lead you round the workshops and storerooms at Newman Brothers, telling tales about notable historical figures, who may have passed on, ...
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Join an undertaker (Brian Parsons), an undertaker’s daughter (Kate Mayfield), and a Victorian gothic novelist (Essie Fox) for a fascinating candle-literary evening which is taking place on October 8th in the Shroud Room of the newly restored Coffin Works in Birmingham’s Jewellery ...
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As you will know by now (but please keep on spreading the word!) at the end of October 2014, Birmingham Conservation Trust is opening an industrial heritage attraction located in Birmingham’s historic Jewellery Quarter. The Newman Brothers factory, built in 1894 and ...
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My name is Isobel Greathead and I have done a year 10 work experience placement with the Birmingham Conservation Trust. With it only being a few months until the Newman Brothers at the Coffin Works opens to the public in the Jewellery ...
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