HISTORY
Articles regarding the Birmingham Municipal Bank's predecessor,
which commenced business on
September 29th 1916;
ceased to take deposits on October 31st 1919;
and was formally wound-up on November 17th 1919
| BIRMINGHAM MUNICIPAL BANK |
Details of the establishment of the Birmingham Corporation Savings
Bank (BCSB) as
a temporary savings institute during the First World War
and its subsequent replacement by the Birmingham Municipal
Bank (BMB)
as a unique municipal savings and housing bank.
A brief description of how the BMB expanded its branch
network and
introduced a variety of services with links providing more detail.
Various milestones in the Bank's
history until it ceased its connection
with Birmingham City Council on November 20th 1979.
A summary of the three
main periods in the Bank's history from
September 1st 1919 to November 20th 1979
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| ANNUAL REPORTS |
External and Internal
Reports providing details of the
historical progress of the Bank
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| BRITAIN'S FIRST MUNICIPAL SAVINGS BANK |
"The Romance
of a Great Achievement"
Extracts from a book written by the BMB's first General Manager
describing the establishment of
the Bank up to 1927
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| Retrospect |
The history of the Bank as related (under the title 'Retrospect')
in the souvenir booklet
issue for the opening of the Broad Street
Head Offices: November 27th 1933
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| The History of the House Purchase Department | The establishment and early development of this aspect of the Bank |
| Transfer of Accounts from the BCSB | The transfer of 21,482 accounts with Balances totalling £325,411 |
| The First Day: September 1st 1919 | Branch Daily Cash Return figures for Deposits and Repayments |
| The Bank's First Depositor |
Newspaper articles re Broad Street's First Deposit and
the Bank's
First Depositor (BCSB and BMB)
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| Progress Reports | |
| The Birmingham Municipal Bank by J P Hilton |
1926
article by the Bank's first General Manager written at the time
of the Bradbury Committee to examine Municipal Savings Banks
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| The Bradbury Committee |
Report of the committee to examine Municipal Savings Banks
- issued in 1928
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Article written shortly after the publication of the report of
the Bradbury Committee
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| Comments on Committee on Municipal Savings Banks |
Comments to the City Council following publication of
the Bradbury
Committee's report
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| Extension of Municipal Banking |
The demand for Municipal Banks in other towns,
and for
branches of the BMB in areas adjoining Birmingham
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| Savings Banks between the Wars |
An extract from "A History of Savings Banks"
by H. Oliver Horne (1947)
that describes the progress of saving banks from 1919 to 1939
- a period that included
the publication of the Bradbury Committee
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| Branches Outside the City | How Oldbury Urban District Council became the first
area outside the
City of Birmingham to have a branch of the Bank
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| Branch Openings by Year | Year-by-Year summary of the number of branches |
| Rapid Growth of Municipal Bank | An article written in 1935 by the Bank's Chairman: Councillor A H Cooper |
| The Municipal Bank, An Example to the Nation | An article written in 1938 by the Bank's Chairman: Alderman Harrison Barrow |
| Birmingham Municipal Bank | An article written in 1961 by the Bank's Chief Accountant: E A Howlett |
| The Page Committee to Review National Savings | The impact on the Bank of this 1973 report |
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-
and -
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at
November 20th 1979, to eventually become part of
the Lloyds TSB Group
A brief history of the UK's Savings Banks (1810 to 1864), and its relevance to the opening and closure of the BIRMINGHAM SAVINGS BANK (1827 to 1864)
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A detailed history of this short-lived Savings Bank
that commenced business in 1827;
and was formally
wound-up in 1864
