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  2. Mortsafe - Wikipedia

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    A mortsafe or mortcage was a construction designed to protect graves from disturbance and used in the United Kingdom. Resurrectionists had supplied schools of anatomy since the early 18th century. This was due to the necessity for medical students to learn anatomy by attending dissections of human subjects, which was frustrated by the very ...

  3. Newman Brothers Coffin Furniture Factory - Wikipedia

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    Grade II* listed. Newman Brothers at The Coffin Works is a museum in the Newman Brothers Coffin Furniture Factory building in the Jewellery Quarter conservation area in Birmingham, England. The museum educates visitors about the social and industrial history of the site, which operated from 1894–1998 as a coffin furniture factory.

  4. Safety coffin - Wikipedia

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    Safety coffin. Taberger's Safety Coffin employed a bell as a signaling device, for anybody buried alive. A safety coffin or security coffin is a coffin fitted with a mechanism to prevent premature burial or allow the occupant to signal that they have been buried alive. A large number of designs for safety coffins were patented during the 18th ...

  5. Natural burial - Wikipedia

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    The first woodland burial ground in the UK was created in 1993 at Carlisle Cemetery and is called The Woodland Burial. [26] Nearly 300 dedicated natural burial grounds have been created in the UK. There is no legal requirements for using a coffin in the UK and a body can be buried in a cloth if desired. [27]

  6. Leverton & Sons - Wikipedia

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    Leverton & Sons Ltd is an independent family-run firm of funeral directors in Camden, London and the current funeral directors to the Royal Household. Established in 1789, the firm has been based in Camden for more than 200 years. Leverton & Sons arrange around 1,000 funerals a year and past funerals have included those of George Orwell ...

  7. Coffin - Wikipedia

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    Coffin. A shop window display of coffins at a Polish funeral director's office. A casket showroom in Billings, Montana, depicting split lid coffins. A coffin is a funerary box used for viewing or keeping a corpse, for either burial or cremation. Coffins are sometimes referred to as a casket, particularly in American English.

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