| Description | Minute volumes indexed. The minutes are printed and signed by the committee Chairman. The minutes are in uniformly titled minute volumes. In the case of minute volumes BCC/1/BT/3 onwards there is an overlap in the dates of the penultimate and final minute books. In October 1973, a special committee was formed to look at the future of the bank after the re-organisation of local government in April 1974 that led to the formation of the West Midlands County Council. This committee decided that the re-organisation would not affect the running of the bank, but after November 1974, the minutes for the Bank Committee meetings continue within this new sequence. The departmental records of the bank were deposited at Birmingham City Archives with the records of the Trustee Savings Bank, which took over Birmingham Municipal Bank in 1976 (see MS 1453). The minutes include some printed copies of banking regulations; printed committee reports to Council; reports of the Manager regarding financial and audit arrangements in place at the bank; reports of the City Treasurer relating to the financial affairs of the Municipal Bank (also detailing other banks in the Birmingham area); reports of the various sub-committees that reported to the main committee; tenders and related reports on building and maintenance works undertaken at the central Municipal Bank and branch offices; details on tenancies of buildings used as municipal banks; lists of applications for mortgages for house purchase (particularly after 1919); information relating to day-to-day fiscal affairs (i.e. bank charges, interest rates); lists of defaulting mortgagors; information relating to office equipment purchased; information relating to departmental and bank staff; accounts and statements of income and expenditure (including statements of business for branch banks); and related correspondence and papers. The minutes covering the First World War (1914 - 1918) include information relating to the impact of the war on the bank, and there is interleaved printed material with the minutes of April 1916 relating to war loan investments and war savings schemes (see BCC/1/BT/1/1/1, pages 7 - 8), and there is further related material throughout the minute volume. The minutes of 5 May 1919 include a detailed list of rules of the Birmingham Municipal Bank made by Birmingham Corporation (see minutes 250 - 251 in BCC/1/BT/1/1/1). The minutes covering the Second World War (1939 - 1945) include further observations about the impact of the war and air raids on bank, including rewards made to bank staff for extra work carried out as part of Birmingham War Weapons and Warships Weeks that year (see to help raise additional capital for the war effort (see minutes 6905, 7172 and 7185 in BCC/1/BT/1/1/13). |