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HISTORY
 Birmingham Corporation Savings Bank
 The history of the BMB'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
 

 History of the Birmingham Municipal Bank
 September 1st 1919 to November 20th 1979
 

 The First Day: September 1st 1919
 Branch Daily Cash Return figures for Deposits and Repayments
 

 The Bank in 1920
 The Bank's progress in its first trading period: September 1st 1919 to March 31st 1920, and its progress in the following periods:
 
     The Bank in 1927
     The Bank in 1939
     The Bank in 1949
     The Bank in 1959
     The Bank in 1969
     The Bank in 1979
 

 Britain's First Municipal Savings Bank
 The Romance of a Great Achievement - book by the Bank's first General Manager: J P Hilton
 

 The History of the House Purchase Department
 The establishment and early development of this aspect of the Bank
 
 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

 Extension of Municipal Banking
 The demand for Municipal Banks in other towns, and for branches of the BMB in areas adjoining Birmingham
 
 
 Committee on Municipal Savings Banks
 A Committee appointed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to investigate the extension of Municipal Banking (1926)
 
 
 Branch Openings by Year
 Year-by-Year summary of number of branches
 

 The Page Committee to Review National Savings
 The impact on the Bank of this 1973 report
 

 Whatever Happened to the Municipal Bank
  From Birmingham Municipal Trustee Savings Bank at November 20th 1979,  to eventually become part of the Lloyds TSB Group
 
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