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L - Local Studies and History book collection
. - Main series (octavo)
01 - Physical Aspects
02 - Geology
03 - Natural History
04 - Meteorology
05 - General Works
06 - Directories
07 - Book Trade in Birmingham
08 - Periodicals and Newspapers
09 - Bibilography on all aspects of the history of Birmingham
10 - Religion
11 - Ecclesiology, Church Buildings, Art, Furniture
12 - Monastic Birmingham
13 - Church of England General Histories
14 - Diocese of Birmingham. Archdeaconary of Birmingham
15 - Diocese of Birmingham. Archdeaconary of Aston
16
17 - Roman Catholic Church
18 - Nonconformists Dissenters
19 - Minor Denominations
20 - Social Life
21 - Social Life Special Classes
22 - Customs of Public and Private Life, Pageants, Festivals Ceremonies and Other Customs
23 - Inns, Taverns, Public Houses, Hotels, Hospitaity, customes connected with eating and drinking
24 - Clubs and Societies
25 - Amusements, Recreation, Sports and Pastimes
26 - Circuses, Fair and Similar Shows
27 - Parks, Open Spaces, Public Gardens and Pleasure Gardens
28 - Theatres, Music Halls
29 - Legends, Ghost Apparitions, Hauntings
30 - History of Birmingham Government from ealiest times
31 - City Corporation, The Mayor, Aldermen and Council Collectively
32 - Mayoralty
33 - Aldermen
34 - City Council
35 - Freedom Qualifications, Rights and Duties of Citizens
36 - City Officials and Departments
37
38 - Town Hall
39 - Regional Government
40 - Statistics, Yearbooks of General Statistics
41 - Poor, Life and Labour
42 - Crimes, Offences, Misdemeanours, Juvenile Crime, Special Crimes
43 - Laws, Admisitration of Justice
44 - Markets and Food Supply
45 - Public Health
46 - Medicine Hospitals
47 - Transport, Communication, Traffic Problems
48 - Education, Teaching and Teachers, History and Description of Schools,
49 - Other Services (Gas, Electricity)
1; 660090 - The application of town's gas for the running of high-speed internal-combustion engines : paper read before the Institution of Mining Engineers, 1933.
2; 254221 - The Birmingham Electrical Bulletin. A quarterly periodical. Numbers 1 - 4, November 1913 - August 1914. All published. 1913-14.
2; 255460 - Electrics. A monthly paper for power users. Birmingham edition. Volume 9, No. 9 - Volume 10, No. 8. September 1913 - August 1914. All published.
2; 259483 - Proceedings of the 19th Annual Convention of the Incorporated Municipal Electrical Association, Birmingham 1914. Illus. Dgms. 1914. Electrical Association (Incorporated Municipal), Birmingham Convention, 1914.
2; 303151 - Electricity Supply Industry, District Industrial Council. No. 5, West Midlands Area : counties of Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire : annual report ...
2; 340417 - Electricity Supply Industry. District Industrial Council (No. 5) West Midland Area. Conditions of service, working conditions, agreements and rates of wages as at April 1927. 22pp. 1927. Working Classes.
2; 406492 - Annual report. 1931-2. District Joint Board of Employers and Members of Staff, (West Midlands Area) (Electricity Supply Industry).
2; 445138 - Conditions of service, working conditions, agreements and rates of wages as at September 1935. 20pp. 1935. District Industrial Council (No. 5) West Midlands Area, Electricity Supply.
11; 234928 - Ordnance map of Birmingham and district, coloured to show the supply area of the Birmingham Gas Company. 1862. Maps.
11; 259801 - Gas : Birmingham and District Gas Consumers Bill. House of Lords. Proceedings 80pp. 1864. Parliamentary Reports and Papers.
11; 259802 - Birmingham and Staffordshire Gas Bill. House of Lords. Proceedings. 56pp. 1864. Parliamentary Reports and Papers.
11; 662928 - Letter to a Member of Parliament from William Murdock, in vindication of his character and claims (to the invention of gas lighting); in reply to a publication by the Committee for conducting through Parliament a Bill for incorporating a Gas-Light & Coke Company. Reprint, with prefatory note by R.B. Prosser. 15pp. 1892. MURDOCK (WILLIAM).
12; 233604 - City of Birmingham Gas Department Magazine. Monthly. Containing biographical sketches and portraits. Volume 1 etc. January 1912 etc.
12; 324520 - City of Birmingham Gas Department. Fifty years of municipal ownership 1875-1925. Account of the part played by Joseph Chamberlain in the administration of the Gas Committee. With an invitation card for the Commemoration of the Jubilee : the unveiling of a bust of Joseph Chamberlain by Arthur Neville Chamberlain. Port. Illus. 15pp. 1925. Gas.
12; 415186 - Note book of Joseph Chamberlain relating to the purchase and working of the Birmingham Gas Undertaking, 1870 – 1879. Manuscript. 1933 NOTE - Photostat reproduction made at the Birmigngham Reference Library from the original in the possession of the Birmingham Gas Department. CHAMBERLAIN (Rt. Hon. JOSEPH) M.P..
12; 584926 - Gas undertaking : the development of gas in the public service as exemplified by the world's largest municipal gas undertaking.
12; 610835 - Souvenir menu of the dinner given on the occasion of the transfer to nationalised industry, 25th April, 1949.
12; 661154 - [Report on gas purification / by Charles Hunt, after a visit to the Phoenix Gas Company, Vauxhall, presented to Birmingham Corporation, 1878].
12; 662978 - [Miscellaneous reports to the Gas Department].
12; 663386 - [A history and description of the work of the department].
13; 5675 - Report of the West Midlands Gas Consultative Council and summary of report of the West Midlands Gas Board.
13; 5676 - Report of the West Midlands Gas Consumers' Council.
13; 625144 - Report and statement of accounts.
13; 663385 - Central & research laboratories Birmingham / opening by Sir Harold Hartley, 1950.
13; 755128 - Report on shortages of gas supplies in the West Midlands during the winter of 1965/66 / by Sir R. Wynne-Edwards.
21; 130490 - Report of the Gas Committee to be presented to a special meeting of the Council, 31st October 1882 on Electric Lighting. (Borough of Birmingham) 17pp. 1882 NOTE :- Bound with 130491 overleaf.
21; 130491 - Report of the Town Clerk to the Gas Committee on the Electric Lighting Act, 1882. (Borough of Birmingham) 24pp. 1882. NOTE :- bound with 130490
21; 660017 - Electric supply department report and abstract of accounts, 1908-9.
21; 662703 - Provisional order authorising the South Staffordshire Electric Lighting Company, Limited, to erect and maintain electric lines and works and to supply electricity within the Urban Sanitary District of Balsall Heath in the county of Worcester.
22; 294533 - Statistics ...
23; 614237 - Report and statement of accounts.
206; 662990 - Diamond jubilee, 1904-1964 : souvenir brochure.
231; 981949 - In your interest : the report of the Electricity Consultative Council for the Midlands Area ...
50 - Culture in Birmingham
51 - Literary Associations
52 - Literary Associations (Birmingham and Midland Writers Only)
53 - Libraries
54 - Fine Arts, artists, Printing, Sculpture
55 - Music
56 - Architecture in Birmingham
57 - Public Buildings
58 - Domestic Architecture, Household Effecrs, Gardens
59 - Other Cutural Activities
60 - Economic History and Theory
61 - Industrial Organisation
62 - Commerce, Commercial Interests
63 - Finance, Banking, Public Finance
64 - Trades and Manufactures
65 - Engineering and Technology
66 - Chemical and Allied Industries
67 - Manufactures
68 - Specialised Trades and Craftys
69 - Other Industries
70 - History: Sources
71 - History: General
72 - History: Before the Conquest
73 - Histories of Specific Periods
74 - Relations with Foreign Countires. Colonial Relations
75 - Military, Naval and Air History
76 - Political History
77 - Geneaology, Heraldry
78 - Biography
79 - Collections of Portraits, Catalogues of Portraits
80 - Topography and description
81 - Birmingham as described by foreign travellers
82 - Vestiges of Old Birmingham and Midlands
83 - Guides to Birmiongham and Surrounding Country
84 - Maps and Plans
85 - Views, Prospects, Panoramas
86 - Improvement Schemes to 1939
87 - Reconstruction and Redevelopment: 1940s onwards
88 - Conservation, Environment
89 - Particular streets and localites
90 - Parishes
91 - Suburbs and Districs in Warwickshire
92 - Suburbs and Districts transferred from Worcestershie
93 - Suburbs and Districts transferred from Stafforsdhire
94 - Herefordshire
95 - Shropshire
96 - Staffordshire
97 - Warwickshire
98 - Worcestershire
99 - West Midlands, Black Country
F - Large volumes (folio)
FF - Extra large volumes
p - Pamphlets
pp - Large pamphlets
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