STAFF
This section of the website attempts to list all the staff who worked for the
Birmingham Municipal Bank and the Birmingham
Municipal Trustee Savings Bank
between September 1st 1919 and November 20th 1979
Names of Staff are shown in Alphabetical Order
- Click appropriate LETTER to access
Female staff are listed in red - no indication
of marital status is given (except for a few entries where the forename is unknown), but both maiden and married names are listed
(where known) if employment was under both names in the period September 1st 1919 to November 20th 1979.
Total Number of Entries:
Males: 677
Females: 1,207
Information regarding the names of employees has been
sourced from the following:
- various editions of the Staff Association's magazine CONTACT
- Staff Association's Register of Members
- Staff
Committee Minute Book
- Attendance Register - wartime inspection of aircraft parts
- World War II Memorial Plaque (originally located
in Head Office)
- Head Office circulars to branches
- Savings Banks Institute Journals
- Recollections of staff - particularly a working
party led by Arthur Radburn
- List of staff transferred from BMB to BMTSB
- Honours Boards and Dinner Menus naming successful examination
candidates
- Newspaper cuttings preserved by the BMB
The numbers of staff employed by the Bank at any particular time is only available
for the following dates:
March 31st 1929: 170 (Source: statistics
on menu for dinner held on April 12th 1929)
October 31st 1933: 195 (Source: statistics on menu
for Commemorative Dinner
held on November 27th 1933)
November 1st 1935: 209 (Source: statistics on menu for dinner
held on December 14th 1935)
October 1938: 229
(Source: Bank Committee report)
October 1939: 243
(Source: Bank Committee report)
January 1958:
335 (Source: Staff Association Members' Register -
March 31st 1976: 506 (Number of staff transferring
from BMB to BMTSB)