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Date
2020
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Subject
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Details
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Dec 5
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Mistaken Identity by Ian Galloway
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Nov
27
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Bankers in Uniform by Clem Batstone
Shard End Branch and John Walter Smith by Ian
Galloway
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Nov 25
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House Purchase Department - A Personal Reflection by Michael Bourke
Memories
of the Football Club's Pontoon by Michael Bourke
Having to Work in Damp Socks! by Ian Galloway
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Nov
25
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IMAGE 151 - Sheila in the Head Office Machine Room - circa 1960
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Nov 16
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STAFF
ASSOCIATION:
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Addition of further articles from editions of the Staff Magazine CONTACT:
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Nov 10
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Addition
of further articles and reports from editions of the Staff Magazine CONTACT:
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Nov 6
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Addition of the names of 244 members of staff (male 62; female 182).
Names obtained
from listing of recruits and resignations in the Staff Magazine CONTACT.
The majority of the listings extracted from magazines
issued in the period 1971 to 1979
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Oct 27
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MANAGEMENT
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Amendment of Branch Management section to include
details of the restructuring of
the Branch Network in the 1970s to include Area and Group Managers
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Oct 27
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STAFF
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Document issued by the General Manager to staff advising them
of the main changes arising from
the BMBs change of status to a TSB
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Oct 15
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Addition
of further articles and reports from editions of the Staff Magazine CONTACT:
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| Oct 10 |
Addition of articles from various editions of the Staff Magazine CONTACT:
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| Sept 28 |
RAMBLING
CLUB
Addition of articles from editions of the Staff Magazine CONTACT:
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| Sept 24 |
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| Sept 22 |
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| Sept 19 |
Extracts from the Staff Magazine CONTACT:
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| Sept 18 |
Addition of further examples:
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| Sept 10 |
Extracts from the Staff Magazine CONTACT:
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| Sept 3 |
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| Aug 31 |
Staff Conferences - Author Unknown
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| Aug 28 |
REVLAC ............ Retired Unhurt ............ 43 by Harry Calver
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| Aug 28 |
CONTACT Magazine - Issues and Editors -
additional details including more examples of magazine covers
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| Aug 20 |
More Recollections of my Career (1962 - 1990) by John Winterbottom
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| Aug 14 |
Extractions from the Minutes of the Bank Committee and its Sub-Committees relating to the
following branches, and covering
the periods specified:
- Wheeler Street (July 1928 - June 1937)
- Cotteridge (July 1924 - July
1936)
- Perry Common (April 1926 - January 1935)
- Sandwell (October 1924 - March 1934)
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| July 27 |
Details of the vehicles purchased by the Bank in the 1920s
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| July 17 |
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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| July 3 |
Record of Attendances by Committee Members and details of the annual formalities
conducted
at the start of each Municipal Year in November
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| June 6 |
Extractions from the
Minutes of the Bank Committee and its Sub-Committees relating to the
following branches, and covering the periods specified:
- Short
Heath (June 1925 - January 1936)
- Horse Fair (May 1926 - December 1936)
- Billesley (January
1922 - June 1936)
- Stechford (July 1921 - April 1939)
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| May 20 |
Building Plans relating to the construction 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:
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| May 15 |
Extractions from the Minutes of
the Bank Committee and its Sub-Committees relating to the
following branches, and covering the periods specified:
- Sherlock
Street (October 1923 - November 1936)
- Heybarnes (February 1927 - April 1936)
- Little
Bromwich (February 1926 - May 1936)
- Springfield (February 1920 - October 1939)
- Bearwood (November 1919
- October 1936)
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| May 14 |
Plans submitted to the City
Engineer & Surveyor's Office for proposed alterations at
Bearwood (177 Sandon Road); the temporary premises occupied
from 1919 to 1929.
The work planned was never commenced when a site for permanent premises was found
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| Apr 24 |
Extractions from the Minutes of
the Bank Committee and its Sub-Committees relating to the
following branches, and covering the periods specified:
- Sparkhill (November
1926 - July 1939)
- Alum Rock (June 1925 - February 1939)
- Selly Park (July
1924 - November 1938)
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| Apr 22 |
Building Plans relating
to the construction 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:
- Farcroft
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| Apr 4 |
Details of the Bank's involvement in Birmingham Corporation's scheme to sell municipal houses
between the First
and Second World Wars
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| Feb 7 |
Additional details added regarding the early history
of the branch originally created
for the exclusive use of the employees of Cadbury Brothers
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| Feb 7 |
The facility provided by the Bank that enabled citizens to pay for dustbins hired from the Salvage Dept.
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| Feb 4 |
New pages added:
IMAGE 141: Head Office building team - 1933
IMAGE 142: Staff Dinners
- 1920s/1930s
IMAGE 143: Menus for Staff Dinners - 1934 & 1935
IMAGE 144: Menus for Staff Dinners - 1936 & 1938
IMAGE 146: Savings Banks Institute Meeting 1971
IMAGE 147: Broad Street
- an update, 2019
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| Jan 16 |
Replacement Site Search Facility
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WEBSITE UPDATES: 2020
ADDITIONS & AMENDMENTS: January 16th to December 5th 2020