Category: Macabre

1. Coffin Works - Birmingham's Industrial Heritage Brought Back to Life

   Posted on 11:00am Sunday 19th Jul 2015

    

   As a volunteer at Barts Pathology Museum and a lover of all things macabre, quirky and unusual when I heard about the Coffin Works, a former coffin fittings factory in Birmingham, I just had to visit. I booked myself on a guided tour and just loved it. It's utterly fascinating, certainly not morbid or gruesome and it's suitable for children. It's an industial heritage museum, simular to Ironbridge or Beamish, but just on a much smaller and more intimate scale as it is a single building and it focuses on the death industry. 

2. Spitalfields Charnel House – Suitable for the Squeamish

   Posted on 8:45am Sunday 21st Jul 2013

   

   Lying beneath a glass pavement close to Spitalfields Market is a charnel house, an amazing reminder of the area’s medieval past. It’s located in a sunken courtyard accessed by steps and is only occasionally open to the public.

3. Sacred Tarts at Barts Pathology Museum

   Posted on 5:30pm Saturday 30th Mar 2013

   

    Our Lady Of Sorrows by Cake Follies

   Sacred Tarts - a divine cake sale

   When you attends an event at Barts Pathology Museum you can always expect a fun and entertaining time. On Easter Saturday 2013, Sacred Tarts saw the museum hosting a religious themed cake sale which provided an array of tempting goodies as an alternative to the traditional Easter egg. On offer were edible crucifixes, pope cakes and St Lucy's Eyeball Truffles just to name a few. In addition there were cocktails, live music and the opportunity to view the museum's collection. The cakes are a work of art in themselves and almost too nice to eat.