In the early 2000s I attended a Church Monuments Society tour in the south of England. At one particular church, the leader of the tour
The Coffin Works is one of 26 museums nationwide to receive a Museum Estate and Development Fund (MEND) grant! The Department for Culture, Media and
We know a lot about the Newman Brothers, but not so much about the Newman Sisters, and there were four of them. Thanks to census
Since we opened the museum nearly ten years ago, the mystery of Edwin Newman has flummoxed us. Frustratingly we’ve never been able to determine why
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
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
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
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
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
A Drab Thoroughfare with a Glamorous Name Street of Opportunity A Visit to Fleet Street Birmingham by Tudor Jones, 4th August 1953 In London,
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
I volunteer for both The Coffin Works and Home of Metal. In my spare time I like to sew. The Shroud Room is my
