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Date
2019
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Subject
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Details
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| Dec 10 |
Extractions from the Minutes of the Bank Committee
and its Sub-Committees relating to the
following branches, and covering the periods specified:
- Birchfield (January
1922 - December 1930)
- Farcroft (December 1922 - April 1938)
- Hall Green (October 1923 - December
1936)
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| Dec 2 |
The
Bank's involvement in making advances for
Smallholdings; Allotments; and Small Dwellings
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| Nov 25 |
Extractions from the Minutes of the Bank Committee and its Sub-Committees
that show
how the Bank's policy and methods of administration in relation to its House Purchase
facility were developed
in the period September 1919 to October 1939.
Also included are extracts from the Minutes showing examples of how various
mortgage applications, accounts, etc were dealt with.
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| Oct 26 |
Additional details
relating to these services - particularly the expansion of the Bank's early,
restricted service, when an application was received
in 1936 from the Allied Electrical Industries
Finance Corporation Limited for the Bank to make 'Periodical Payments'
in respect of
hire purchase repayments
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| Oct 12 |
Additional data relating
to the accounting and reporting of Cash Differences
incurred by the Bank's cashiers. Period covered September 1st 1919 to December
31st 1948.
Includes reports of a Cash Shortage at Duddeston branch in 1927 and unauthorised withdrawals
at Sparkbrook branch
in 1945
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| Oct 10 |
The policy regarding the payment for working extraneous hours in
the period
from the commencement of the Bank to 1939
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| Oct 6 |
Details
of the salaries awarded to the BMB's General Manager
and his deputy from the commencement of the Bank to the
start of the
Second World War
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| Sept 20 |
Extractions from the Minutes of the Bank Committee and its Sub-Committees,
covering the period
to September 1939, relating to the first 26 permanent branches, plus the Head Office premises:
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| Sept 20 |
Building Plans
relating to the reconstruction of branch premises, submitted to the
City Engineer & Surveyor's Office, as
required by Birmingham's 'Bye-Laws for Regulating the
Construction of New Streets and New Buildings'. Plans added regarding
the following branches:
- Ward End
- Nechells
- Witton
- Moseley
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| July 26 |
Additional data added regarding the 1937 transfer of
466 mortgages from
Solihull Council to the Bank
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| July 16 |
Details of
the first 1,650 Home Safes - Dates Received and the
Branches to which they were issued
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| July 9 |
Branch Managerial appointments made in 1937 following the Classification of Branches
into 4 Grades based on
the number of Annual Transactions
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| Jun 30 |
Details
of the operation of Bearwood branch as an Evening Branch and
the early days of Daily opening
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| May 26 |
Names of all staff employed at December 1st 1929
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| May 19 |
LOOSE LEAF LEDGERS
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Additional
examples of Ledger Sheets:
- Savings Account: headings on a reverse page
- Mortgage Account: Reducing
Mortgage & headings on a reverse page
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| May 19 |
Building Plans
relating to the reconstruction of branch premises, submitted to the
City Engineer & Surveyor's Office, as
required by Birmingham's 'Bye-Laws for Regulating the
Construction of New Streets and New Buildings'.
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| May 15 |
BRANCHES
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Addition
of photographs taken in 1956 and 1968:
ASTON CROSS BRANCH - Aston Road North in January 1956
NECHELLS BRANCH - Nechells
Park Road in March 1968
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| May 10 |
ALUM ROCK BRANCH - 1952
Photograph that includes
Alum Rock branch at a time when it was trading from the premises
that had suffered major bomb damage during the Second World
War
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| May 5 |
Individual Branch Statistics including Deposit Balances;
Open Accounts; Transactions
Annual Statistics analysed by Month
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| Apr 5 |
Addition
of an example of a Gas Bill paid at Selly Park branch in February 1937
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| Apr 1 |
Extractions
from the Minutes of the Bank Committee and its Sub-Committees relating to the
following branches, and covering the periods specified:
- Spring
Hill (October 1923 - December 1931)
- Erdington (August 1919 - December 1931)
- Ward End (January 1920
- December 1931)
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| Apr 1 |
Addition of the Ledger for Account
Number 1827 at Witton branch which records the sale receipts
for eight copies of J P Hilton's book Britain's First Municipal
Savings Bank sold
between July 9th 1927 and February 6th 1928
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| Mar 20 |
Extractions from the
Minutes of the Bank Committee and its Sub-Committees relating to
its Head Office premises, and covering the periods specified:
-Edmund Street (August 1919 - October 1929)
- Broad Street (December 1926 - May 1932)
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| Mar 20 |
Additional extractions from the Minutes of the Bank Committee and its Sub-Committees relating to
premises
generally and not to any one specific branch
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| Mar 20 |
Additional extractions from the Minutes of
the Bank Committee and its Sub-Committees relating to the
following branches, and covering the periods specified:
- Handsworth (September
1919 - December 1931)
- Ladywood (August 1919 - December 1931)
- Lozells (August 1919 - December 1931)
- Hay Mills (January
1920 - January 1932)
- Saltley (August 1919 - December 1931)
- Acocks Green (August 1919 - April 1932)
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| Mar 13 |
Additional extractions from the Minutes of the Bank Committee and its Sub-Committees relating to the
following branches,
and covering the periods specified:
- Sparkbrook (November 1919 - July 1930)
- Kings Heath (August 1919 - December
1930)
- Balsall Heath (August 1919 - January 1930)
- Small Heath (August 1919 - December 1931)
- Selly Oak (October
1919 - October 1931)
- Aston (August 1919 - July 1931)
- Duddeston (August 1919 - December 1931)
- Aston
Cross (October 1920 - March 1932)
- Rotton Park (August 1919 - December 1929)
- Stirchley (November 1919 - March 1932)
-Hockley (December 1921 - December 1931)
- Harborne (October 1919 - December 1931)
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Mar 6
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As
an economy measure in the latter part of the Second World War, passbooks relating to an
account transferred between branches
were continued to be used at the new branch instead
of a new passbook being issued. This page of the website includes an example
of such a passbook
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Jan 31
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The history of the introduction of a mechanised posting
system into the larger branches of the Bank,
commencing with the Aston Cross and Balsall Heath branches in May 1930
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Jan
31
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'My Memories of the Machine Posting System' by Maureen Limbrick
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Jan 23
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Addition of document produced by the Midland Federation of Building Trades Employers commenting
on
various clauses etc of the Tender Document and observations of Birmingham Corporation and the
Bank Committee on those comments
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WEBSITE UPDATES: 2019
ADDITIONS & AMENDMENTS: January 23rd to December 10th 2019