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Date
2018
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Subject
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Details
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Dec 22
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IMAGES
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Dec 16
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Details of the operation of Witton branch as an Evening Branch
prior to its upgrade
to a Daily Branch in September 1927
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Dec 2
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BRANCH MANAGEMENT
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Dec 2
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MEMBERS OF STAFF
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Names of the Members of Staff employed by the Bank at:
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Dec 2
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Details of the first 100 accounts opened at Head Office on the first day of
business
of the BMB (September 1st 1919) - all accounts having been transferred
from the Birmingham Corporation Savings Bank.
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Nov
23
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Handsworth branch - members of staff in the early 1970s
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Nov 20
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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
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Nov 15
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LOOSE LEAF LEDGERS
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Examples of Loose Leaf Ledgers employed
in manual posting systems for:
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Oct 20
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Oct 19
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Addition of Branch Statistics: 1929 & 1930
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Sept 15
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A defalcation committed in 1924 by the Manager of Duddeston branch (H H Crump)
was known as
"The Crump Affair". The Bank's Committee of Management asked
the Auditors (Agar, Bates, Neal & Co) to produce a Report
to investigate what had
occurred. Their Report was contained in three letters, now added to the website:
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Aug 13
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BRANCHES
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Images
showing current use of four former BMB branch premises:
- Saltley
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July 4
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Addition of Correspondence etc regarding the repair and refurbishment of the
building's
Stained Glass Windows that suffered percussion damage during an
air raid in the Second World War
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June 29
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Images and background information regarding the Architect (Gerald McMichael,
ARIBA)
who designed the first purpose-built Municipal Bank, and the builder
(T Elvins & Sons) who carried out the construction work
to his plans
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June 27
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Details of the first 100 accounts opened at
Aston branch on the first day of
business of the BMB (September 1st 1919) - all accounts having been transferred
from the
Birmingham Corporation Savings Bank. The article outlines the
procedure that would have been followed, and the difficulties encountered,
in
conducting a major clerical exercise in a very limited period of time
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June 26
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Addition
of an example of a Head Office passbook issued for a Society Account.
The passbook is a type that was used from 1969, and the
pages cover a period
that included Decimalisation of the currency and Computerisation of the Bank's
records
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June 25
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Reproduction of the 'Hours of Business' as printed in passbooks.
This set of 'hours' applied from
July 1st 1969 to August 31st 1973
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June 24
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Examples added of some of the large variety of
Rubber Stamps used by the Bank:
- branch designatory letters (HB)
- notification of Interest Change
at December 1st 1932
- Head Office address (Broad Street, Birmingham 1)
- 'CANCELLED' stamp used
in passbooks
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June 17
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Addition of a 1939 Notice advising Depositors that all branches of
the Bank
will be closed on March 31st for the Annual Balance
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June 16
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Examples
of notices posted in branches to advise depositors
of Hours of Business, including temporary wartime arrangements
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June
16
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SAFE DEPOSIT
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Addition of advertisements for the Safe Deposit facility:
- showing the rentals
charged from 1968 in decimal values
- depicting a 'thief' stealing jewellery
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June 15
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Addition of the official notice to Depositors re the Transfer of the
Assets
and Liabilities of the Birmingham Municipal Bank to the
Birmingham Municipal Trustee Savings Bank
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June 15
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Addition of a notice advising depositors of an interest rate increase to 3%,
on No 1
Department accounts on April 1st 1965
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June 14
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Addition of an image showing a poster used
in branches to announce
the introduction of the No 2 Department
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June 14
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Addition
of an image showing a design for the branch's window display
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June 14
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A brief history of the UK's Savings Banks (1810 to 1864), plus a more detailed description of the operations of the BIRMINGHAM SAVINGS BANK (1827 to 1864)
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May 16
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IMAGE-084: addition of image of Hugh McCallion, the Bank's Chairman 1973 - 1975
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May 15
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Branch Deposit Balances at: March 31st 1927 November 30th 1927 March 31st 1928 July 31st 1928 November 30th 1928 Open Accounts at March 31st 1928 Transactions: April 1st 1927 to March 31st 1928
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Apr 25
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Addition of image of Heybarnes' passbook
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Mar 21
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My Career with the Bank by Gilbert Sherborne
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| Mar 12 |
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A Stationery, but not stationary career - My time with BMB by Brenda Harvey (formerly Brenda Hayter)
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| Mar 12 |
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W A Camwell: addition of Newspaper Article dated March
1956
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| Mar 5 |
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Article by the Bank's Chairman (Councillor A H Cooper)
published in the Birmingham Gazette in 1935 |
| Feb 28 |
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Addition of an example of form
MB 137 -
Cashier's Receipt for Cash Received from Branch Manager
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| Feb 22 |
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Extracts
from the Minutes of the Bank's Management Committees
detailing the history relating to the acquisition, construction, and
refurbishment,
etc of property acquired for the Bank's branch network.
Additional information added regarding Premises uploaded previously,
plus:
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| Feb 18 |
BRANCH INSTRUCTIONS
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Addition of an image of the whistle issued to branches
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| Feb 3 |
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'My Story'
by Home Safe Number 1396
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| Feb 2 |
Broad Street's First Deposit ....
.... and the Bank's First Depositor
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Addition
of details of the first depositors in the
- Birmingham Corporation Savings Bank and the
- Birmingham Municipal Bank
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| Jan 18 |
Extracts from the Minutes of the Bank's Management Committees
detailing the history relating to the acquisition,
construction, and
refurbishment, etc of property acquired for the Bank's branch network
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| Jan 6 |
Details of the staffing positions @ October 1st 1923
and April 1st 1924
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WEBSITE UPDATES: 2018
ADDITIONS & AMENDMENTS: January 6th to December 22nd 2018