We have a fantastic opportunity to double any donations for the Coffin Works and we need your help! The Pilgrim Trust will match pound for pound any donations given via The Big Give website between 5th and 22nd December up to a ...
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Audience at the APT Midlands region event at Coalbrookdale on 4th November 2011
The Midlands Area meeting of the UK Association of Preservation Trusts held a meeting in the west of the region last Friday, November 4th in the Glass Classroom at Coalbrookdale. ...
FORBIDDEN PLACES - Exploring our abandoned heritage
During the summer months I started to look into historic hospital buildings and during this time I came across ‘Urban Explorers’. They are a community of people who are dedicated to historic buildings and decay. They ...
The largest ever research project into the condition of England’s industrial heritage has been published by English Heritage this month together with the annual Heritage at Risk Register.
The research into England’s industrial heritage has revealed that listed buildings are more at risk ...
Shabana Mahmood MP with Elizabeth Perkins, BCT Director, Bob Beauchamp, Chairman and Anne Jenkins of Heritage Lottery Fund
On Heritage Open Days weekend, Shabana Mahmood the local MP, visited our project and had a great time. Here’s what she had to say about ...
Explore the Coffin Fittings Works on Heritage Open Days
Book your tour of the Coffin Fittings Works on Friday 9th or Saturday 10th September by phoning 0121 303 2664 or sending an email to elizabeth.perkins@birmingham.gov.uk
There are still some places left and only one ...
Stop the Clocks - another chance to see this great performance!
Stop the Clocks is returning to Newman Brothers Coffin Fittings Factory from the 28th September- 1st October 2011 after a sell-out run in June 2011.The first performance piece to take place in ...
It’s that wonderful time of year again when hidden heritage comes to light and when you can get in free at places that normally charge. Heritage Open Days take place from 8th – 11th September. All over Birmingham places will be opening ...
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Time moves on at the Coffin Fittings Works - Stop the Clocks!
As the products from the Coffin Fittings Works have been used in the celebration of lives for over 100 years, so the cast of Tin Box Company celebrate a particular life ...
3 Legge Lane - Ashton & More. Photo by focalplane, who's father ran the business.
There is a wonderful short history at the end of this link of Ashton & Moore, a Birmingham firm specialising in coatings for the aerospace industry. It is ...
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