| Description | Brown card file. Correspondence dated 27 September 1922 - 16 February 1924. The file contains correspondence relating to the development of the proposed canal works between Birmingham Corporation and the Ministry of Transport and Ministry of Health. There is some correspondence with the Unemployment Grants Committee, London, as it was felt the scheme might present an opportunity to employ workmen recently made redundant as a result of the economic problems following the end of the First World War in 1918.There is also correspondence with Neville Chamberlain, then Minister of Health. |