MEMORIES
 
This section of the Website recalls various aspects of the BMB's history,
through personal recollections of staff members,
and also through articles written by them and others
Reference
Number 
 Subject
 Author
 001
 Revolver was kept on top of the safe  Stanley Guy
 002
 Customers  Norman Worwood
 003
 The BMB in 1949/1951  Stella Linnington (nee Bradbury)
 004
 Perry Beeches Branch, and other adventures with Richard Mann  David Parkes
 005
 Rubber Stamps and Their Dangers  Norman Worwood
 006
 The New Cheque Service  Norman Worwood
 007
 The March Balance, With a Difference  Norman Worwood
 008
 Bank Accommodation  Norman Worwood
 009
 Staff Discipline, or Burning the Candle at Both Ends  Norman Worwood
 010
 Staff Discipline, re: Dress Codes  Norman Worwood
 011
 Recruitment  Norman Worwood
 012
 Qualifications, and the Last Chance Saloon  Norman Worwood
 013
 Working Relationships  Norman Worwood
 014
 Just People  Norman Worwood
 015
 A 'Plumber' Calls  Richard Mann
 016
 My First Day  Bob Fernie
 017
 Preservation of the Bank's Assets  David Parkes; Keith Boden; Tony Green; Norman Worwood
 018
 Kingstanding Branch, and a charismatic manager  David Parkes
 019
 House Purchase Department  Eric Bignell
 020
 £500 Under Floorboards  [author unknown]
 021
 My First Promotion  Steve White
 022
 Reminisences, Tales, and Incidents  Frank Whitehouse
 023
 A Few Random Recollections of the Birmingham Municipal Bank  Norman Ling
 024
 Some Early Recollections of the Bank, including the Corporation Savings Bank  Marion Robottom
 025
 Incidents - Humorous and Otherwise: 1922 - 1969  Hedley Massey
 026
 Memories  Len Wright
 027
 Early Days at Sparkbrook Branch  Harold Carver
 028
 Recollections of the Bank's Committee Clerk  Arthur Everall
 029
 Safe Deposit Department  Norman Monk
 030
 Memories  Frank Jones
 031
 Banking Tales  Albert Williams
 032
 Forty Years a Showman  Albert Williams
 033
 Broad Street Revisited  David Parkes
 034
 Nostalgia  Fred Parsonage
 035
 The Day the Municipal Bank Obstructed the Tram Track  Charles Harper
 036
 Two Amusing Incidents  Frank Ellison
 037
 Memories of the Early Days of the Bank  Henry Bayliss
 038
 All by Hand!  Norman Worwood
 039
 Relief Working  Norman Worwood
 040
 A Moving Experience  Harry Calver
 041
 Talking it Out  Godfrey Boden
 042
 .... and Saturday Morning  Harry Calver
 043
 A Day in the Life of a Branch Manager  Norman Worwood
 044
 Humour at the Municipal Bank  [author unknown]
 045
 Let Me See My Money  H V Morton
 046
 The Husband's Pocket Money  [author unknown]
 047
 Magic Moments  Harry Calver
 048
 Floral Tributes  Godfrey Boden
 049
 The Bank Chess Club  Norman Worwood
 050
 Short Memories  Sue Brookes; Michael Bourke; Jeanette Parkes
 051
 One Man's Journey  Howard Powell
 052
 Counter Productive  David Parkes
 053
 Memories of my Working Career  John Marshall
 054
 Opening a Branch Bank in 1919  Frank Whitehouse
 055
 Frank  Hood
 056
 Bankers in Uniform - 2  Bernard Hayward
 057
 Bankers in Uniform - 3  Geoff Payne
 058
 Them Lawful Occasions  Ted Viney
 059
 Humour in the Telephone Exchange  Marjorie Rayner
 060
 The Bank as Seen Through the Eyes of a Junior  [author unknown]
 061
 Around the Branches in Eighty Days  Les Dobson & Norman Yardley
 062
 Half-Crowns in their Petticoats  Various (17 members of the Bank's staff)
 063
 Saving at the Local Municipal  Various
 064
 But Once a Year  Harry Calver
 065
 The Joys of Working at a Branch  [authors unknown]
 066
 A Gassy Story  E M & H Peers
 067
 Bother Over Bearwood  [author unknown]
 068
 The Modern Bank Clerk  [author unknown]
 069
 Down Memory Lane  Harold Turner
 070
 Recollections of my Career (1962 - 1990)  John Winterbottom
 071
 Neville Chamberlain Centenary  Stanley Guy
 072
 'My Story' by Home Safe Number 1396  Nick Bright & David Parkes
 073
 A Stationery, but not stationary career - My time with BMB  Brenda Harvey (formerly Brenda Hayter)
 074
 My Career with the Bank  Gilbert Sherborne
 075
 My Memories of the Machine Posting System  Maureen Limbrick
 076
 More Recollections of my Career (1962 - 1990)  John Winterbottom
 077
 REVLAC ............ Retired Unhurt ............. 43  Harry Calver
 078
 Staff Conferences  [author unknown]
 079
 Off with the Old - On with the New  Margaret Smith
 080
 House Purchase Department - A Personal Reflection  Michael Bourke
 081
 Memories of the Football Club's Pontoon  Michael Bourke
 082
 Having to Work in Damp Socks!  Ian Galloway
 083
 Bankers in Uniform - 4  Clem Batstone
 084
 Shard End Branch and John Walter Smith  Ian Galloway
 085
 Mistaken Identity  Ian Galloway
 086
 Branches (and Branch Managers) I have known  Keith Boden
 087
 My Nineteen Year Banking Career  Barry Hicks
 088
 The World Is What It Is  David Parkes
 089
 Just Getting On With It  Michael Bourke
 090
 BMB Memoirs 1967-1976  Graham M Bowden
 091
 A Granddaughter's Memories  Sally Cherry
 092
 Carrying On Without Electricity  David Skett
 093
 My BMB Memories  Derek Horner
 
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