BRANCHES
The following pages provide information regarding the Bank's network of branches
| The Growth of Birmingham and the Bank's Branch Network | How the growth of the branch network mirrored the growth of the city |
| BRANCH INDEX | Alphabetical listing of individual branch entries |
| Key to Individual Branch Entries | Explanation of entries |
| Branch Sort Codes | Description of system for identifying individual branches |
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Location Maps:
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Four maps showing the location of individual branches
in relation to Birmingham's Town Hall
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| Branch Opening Hours | Historical record of branch opening hours |
| Days when all Offices of the Bank are Closed | Closures for Bank Holidays etc |
| Permanent Branches - Opening Dates | Chronological record of permanent branch openings |
| Branches Outside the City | 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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| Branch Openings and Numbers |
Year-by-year record of branch openings and
closures;
and summary of branch numbers
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| Part Time Branches |
Details of branches that
were initially opened on a Part Time basis
including those opened as 'Evening Branches'
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| Branch Managers | Lists of Branch Managers for specific years |
| Branch Architecture | History re architects, designs, etc |
| Premises |
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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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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| Description of Accounting Procedures at Branches | |
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Deposit Ledgers:
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Extracts
from Depositors' Personal Ledgers, used at the
Birmingham Corporation Savings Bank and six branches
of the Birmingham Municipal Bank, that show examples of how
these bound manual ledgers were maintained
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| Branch Tablets | Examples of branch commemoration tablets |
| Branch Night Lights | Security measure for the police to monitor branches overnight |
| Analysis of Branches by Deposit Balances | Classification by size |
| Individual Branch statistics | |
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Branches
that never came to fruition
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Instruction Manual issued to branches in 1960
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An example of the wooden building used as temporary branch premises in certain locations,
prior to the establishment of a permanent
branch, or during the reconstruction of a permanent branch
