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Date
2019
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Subject
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Details
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Oct 12
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Additional
data added regarding the 1937 transfer of 466 mortgages from
Solihull Council to the Bank
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July 16
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Analysis
of the Classic Home Safes supplied by Wilkins & Wright and Taylor, Law & Co
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July 16
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Details
of the first 1,650 Home Safes - Dates Received and the
Branches to which they were issued
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July 9
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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
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Details
of the operation of Bearwood branch as an Evening Branch and
the early days of Daily opening
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May 26
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Names
of all staff employed at December 1st 1929
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May 19
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Individual Branch Statistics including Deposit Balances; Open Accounts; Transactions
Annual Statistics analysed by
Month
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Apr 5
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Addition of an example of a Gas Bill paid at Selly Park branch in February 1937
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Apr
1
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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