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prada perfumes for men Jewellery Quarter building was once the best in the world and made fittings for the coffins of Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain and Diana, Princess of Wales.Many of these handles, breast plates, crucifixes and shrouds, were left behind when the business shut in 1997.Documents including sales ledgers, clock cards, photographs and catalogues were also kept inside the last complete historic building in Fleet Street, whose neighbours include the modern glass fronted offices of Mitchells and Butlers and an apartment block.Members of the Birmingham Conservation Trust, which owns the building, talk excitedly of it being as if you are transported back in time. Across a courtyard from a cobbled stamp room and its presses is a high step into the store room, where the windows are boarded and the senses work harder through the gloom.A steep wooden staircase leads up to the warehouse room and a couple of coffins empty ones stand idle next to an office.In the floor above is the shroud room, where needleworkers created these and the linings of coffins. The textiles jobs would have also brought women to the factory which meant the firm was a place where families could work together.Elizabeth Perkins, director of the Birmingham Conservation Trust says among the finds were workers' handbags, tea towels and tins of mushroom soup."There's a terrific atmosphere to the place and there is that sense of walking back in time," she says."All the detail that's been left makes that sort of atmosphere. Certainly when I'm in it I get a sense of it being a place where people were proud to work."When all the contents were in there, in all the different areas where people worked, you could feel a sense of them. There were hand tools that had been customised just to make them that bit more effective. One just had a little bit of metal added to the handle to make it that little bit easier to grip."The polisher had a little desk box and his glasses were in there, all individual tools for mending machinery were in there and a couple of New Scientist magazines, obviously he would read that in his breaks."The award from the Heritage Lottery Fund HLF will mean the building's first major