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1 - Newspaper cuttings, 1945-61 : concerning social problems, hospitals, housing, the poor and the aged.
1; 15438 - Charities of Warwickshire. Reports from Commissioners. Volumes 15, 17, 18, 20, 28, 29, 32 (part 3) 7 volumes. 1826-38. Charity Commission.
1; 226045 - A collection of circulars issued by the City of Birmingham Aid Society. With newspaper cuttings. 1906 - 1913. Aid Society (City of Birmingham). - 1913
1; 243949 - The ancient deeds of the Yardley charity estates. Edited and annotated by Wright Wilson. 68pp. 1913. WILSON (WILLIAM WRIGHT) Works edited by. - 1913
1; 386710 - Statement of receipts and payments, 1926-7. Typescript. 1927 --. Harborne Charity Estates.
1; 387943 - Harborne Parish Lands (except Educational Foundation) Schemes relating to almshouses at Smethwick. 14th June, 1918; 13th January 1928; 1st April 1930. 3 volumes. 1918-30. Charity Commission.
1; 461412 - Reports of the Commissioners to inquire concerning charities and educaiton of the poor in England and Wales. Warwickshire, including Birmingham. Volume 35. 1815-39. Charity Commission. - 1815-1839
1; 528541 - Birmingham Charity Sports. Balance sheet, 1889. Statement of accounts, 1904-5. Summary of receipts and payments, 1905-6, 1906, 1907-8 to 1909-10, 1913-14. 8 volumes. 1889 - 1914. Charity Sports. - 1914
1; 664913 - Newspaper cuttings, 1945-61 : concerning social problems, hospitals, housing, the poor and the aged.
1; 789392 - Local history source book. No. 2, Poor relief in Staffordshire 1662-1840. - 1968
4; 278675 - Appointment by William Dudley of Trustees. 8th May 1875. Lithographed copy of deed. 1875. Dudley Trust. - 1875
4; 278676 - Endowment by William Dudley of a charity founded by him. 8th May 1875 Lithographed copy deed with MS notes. 1875. Dudley Trust. - 1875
6; 142358 - Statement of income and expenditure, 1897. 1898— NOTE - 1918-19 wanting. Piddock's Trust (called Piddock's Charity from 1925-6).
7; - [Newspaper cuttings relating to gipsies, tinkers and travelling folk in Birmingham and the West Midlands].
8; 156671 - Scenes in slum-land. Pen pictures of the black spots in Birmingham. 2 volumes. 32pp. 42pp. 1901. *WALTERS (JOHN CUMING) pseud. Ignotus. - 1901
8; 254385 - City of Birmingham. Special Housing Inquiry, 1913-14. Report of Committee for the Council, 20th October 1914. 18pp. 1914. Housing. - 1914
8; 254386 - City of Birmingham. Special Housing Inquiry, 1913-14. Appendix to the Report containing evidence. 1914. Housing. - 1914
8; 297785 - Birmingham Corporation Housing and Estates Committee. Criticism, being a letter from Mr. Coun. S.T. Talbot to the Special Housing Enquiry Committee, May 21st 1921. 27pp. 1921. TALBOT (Sir SAMUEL THOMAS) alderman. - 1921
8; 297785 - City of Birmingham. Report of the Special Housing Enquiry Committee for presentation at the Quarterly Meeting of the Council on Tuesday, 7th February 1922. 12pp. 1922. Housing. - 1922
8; 297786 - Birmingham Housing Enquiry on criticism of incompetence, extravagance and waste. Mr. Talbot's reply on the evidence. 91pp. 1922. TALBOT (Sir SAMUEL THOMAS) alderman. - 1922
8; 297787 - Housing Enquiry. Statement by Housing and Estates Committee. 4 January 1922. Typewritten. 1922. Housing. - 1922
8; 364267 - Annual Report. 1st, 1925-6 etc.. Copec House Improvement Society Limited (Birmingham).
8; 453050 - City of Birmingham Public Health Department. Report by the Medical Officer of Health on the Overcrowding Survey under the Housing Act, 1935. 1936. Housing. - 1936
8; 471528 - Modern House and Home (The) A journal for the owner-occupier and a guide to all interested in house purchase. Vols. 1 – 5. Illus. Dgms. 5 volumes. 1937-39 NOTE - All published.
8; 660863 - Slum clearance and redevelopment from the design and economic point of view : [with references to Birmingham : paper given at the Town and Country Planning Summer School, Oxford, September 1957]. - 1957
8; 661652 - Visit of Stretford Borough Council : inspection of multi-storey housing schemes : [programme], 25th, March, 1959. - 1959
8; 662802 - Midland house review : the Midlands own housing magazine.
8; 663276 - [Applications for tenancies of municipal houses] : statistical report upon the audit of the application register as at the 31st August, 1935. - 1936
8; 663436 - Housing in Birmingham immediately after the Second World War. - 1968
8; 663437 - The production of municipal houses in Birmingham 1939-1966. - 1968
8; 663438 - The changing housing stock of Birmingham 1945-1966. - 1968
8; 793825 - Population and housing : Birmingham 1931-1968. - 1970
9; 295502 - The Temperance Banner or Birmingham and Midland Counties Journal. No. 1, October 29th 1859 - No. 44, August 25th 1860. 1859-60 NOTE - Wants Nos. 27, 33, 38-40, 42-3 and all after 44. WILKINSON (DYKE) Birmingham sportsman. Work edited by.
9; 390326 - The nature and occasions of intemperance and On the remedy of intemperance. Tracts No. 4 and 6. Printed for the Glasgow and West of Scotland Temperance Society, but issued in a cover lettered Birmingham Auxiliary Temperance Society and including a temperance pledge form. (Glasgow) 2 volumes. c.1840. BEECHER (Rev. LYMAN). - 1840
9; 536017 - City of Birmingham Watch Committee. Register of portraits and descriptions of habitual drunkards. Nos. 1 – 82. 82pp. 1903-6 NOTE - Many numbers of Register wanting. Portraits.
11; 86745 - Birmingham Board of Guardians. Copies of evidence relating to charges made by the Birmingham Board of Guardians against A.B. Simpson, Medical Officer of Birmingham Workhouse, and report of inspectors thereon. (Parliamentary Report) Illus. 26pp. 1886. Workhouses. - 1886
11; 123783 - For better regulating the Poor within the Parish of Birmingham; and for empowering the Guardians of the Poor to grant building leases of certain lands vested in them or otherwise to sell and dispose of the same, and to apply the monies to arise therefrom in the enlargement or rebuilding of the present Workhouse etc. (1 & 2 Will. IV., c.67) 1831 With index. Copy at OS B COL41.11 Birmingham Poor Law and Workhouse. Miscellaneous Documents Vol. 1. Acts of Parliament (Miscellaneous).
11; 530990 - Memorandum on work for the unemployed, February 1905. 8pp. 1905 NOTE :- From November 1905 this Committee was incorporated in the City of Birmingham Aid Society. See below. Aid Committee (City of Birmingham).
12; 552581 - [Newspaper cuttings relating to public assistance and the City Welfare Department]. - 1948-1959
12; 662578 - [Newspaper cuttings relating to Birmingham Distress Committee, labour exchanges, unemployment, public assistance, emigration, pensions, etc.].
13; 11005 - Newsline : Birmingham social services staff news.
14; 140611 - Girls’ Night Shelter, Bath Row, Birmingham. Annual reports. 1st (1888-9) - 26th (1914 & 1915). 24 volumes. 1889 - 1915. NOTE :- Wants reports 2 - 3 (1889-91). Girls’ Night Shelter. - 1888-1891
14; 270222 - Annual Reports, 27th (1916) -- NOTE :- Wants Number 29 (1918); 32 (1921-2); 39 (1929). Girls’ Night Shelter.
23; 486367 - The Birmingham and District Federation of Boys' Clubs. Annual Report 1929-30 to 1930-31; 1932-3 NOTE :- wants 1928-9, 1931-2. Boys' Clubs (Birmingham and District Federation of) afterwards Birmingham.
23; 515856 - Birmingham and District Federation of Boys' Clubs. Leaflets, etc. 1939 --. Boys' Clubs (Birmingham and District Federation of) afterwards Birmingham.
23; 521006 - The Fluff. The magazine of the girls of the Birmingham Boys' and Girls' Union. Vols. 1 - 2 (6th November 1940 - 28th July 1942) Typescript. 1940-42 NOTE - 1. From Vol. 1, No. 3 called The Perch 2. From September 11th 1942 incorporated in Kyrle Hall Flash, Catalogue No. 546027 LF41.23. Street Children's Union.
23; 521007 - The Wag. Published by the Ministry of Information of the Summer Fields Boys' Club of the Birmingham Boys' and Girls' Union. Vol. 7, No. 12 - Vol. 8, No. 45 (22nd November 1940 - 14th August 1942) Typescript. - 1940-1942
23; 531719 - Leaflets. 1937 --. Diocesan Council of Youth (Birmingham).
23; 546027 - Kyrle Hall Flash, incorporating 'The Wag' and 'The Perch'. The magazine of the Birmingham Boys' and Girls' Union. Number 1 (September 11, 1942) - Number 219 (March 6, 1953) 11 volumes. 1942-53 NOTE - discontinued.
23; 551291 - [Leaflets, etc.].
23; 556689 - Annual report.
23; 662499 - Operation politics : report of an enquiry to measure political interest and democratic concern amongst 202 teenagers in the Birmingham area. - 1962
23; 662500 - Young people working : a report on the industrial experience and expectations of some teenagers in Birmingham. - 1962
23; 745425 - Teen scene : [a newspaper] / sponsored by the Birmingham Association of Youth Clubs.
23; 752749 - Operation centre : an enquiry into teenagers' leisure-time use of the centre of Birmingham / [by the students of Westhill College of Education, February 1961]. - 1961
23; 752753 - Youth at the centre : an enquiry into the attitudes of teenagers in Birmingham to provision for leisure-time activities in the centre of the city and in the suburbs / [by the students of Westhill College of Education, Summer 1965]. - 1965
34; 662402 - Newsletter ... - 1962
34; 662881 - Constitution, balance sheet and minutes, etc.
39; 387394 - Annual reports of the voluntary committee, 1927--. 1928--. King's Heath Infant Welfare Centre, afterwards King's Heath Maternity and Child.
81; 743864 - [Names and locations of multi-storey flats in Birmingham]. - 1964
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