Venue Type
Museum / Gallery
The Coffin Works
Award-winning heritage museum in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter. Restored Victorian manufactory.
Newman Brothers was established in 1882 by Alfred Newman and his brother Edwin. Originally brass founders, they predominantly made cabinet furniture until 1894, when the company moved to the present site on Fleet Street and began to specialise in the production of coffin furniture. Newman Brothers continued to specialise in this area until, due to competition from abroad and failure to modernise, they were forced out of business and ceased trading in 1998.
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