Archive

Birmingham Archive holds a lot of material about Bournville Tenants Limited within the Bournville Village Trust collection.

If you would like to see any of this material, you will need to book an appointment to visit the archive by emailing archives.appointments@birmingham.gov.uk or phoning 0121 303 6247. You will need to take two forms of ID; one proof of name (such as a bank card) and one proof of address (such as a utility bill or driving license), then you will be issued with a CARN ticket. This can be used in most archives across the country.

You can view the Bournville Tenants material by giving the reference MS 1536, and then the box number from the choices below.

Box 24
Folder: Titled 'Trees', noting different trees for planting, problems with old or overgrown trees, and suggestions for encouraging beekeeping.
Folder: About the Serbian Church, including programmes of events.
Folder: About the bombing in 1947.
Map: Colour map of Bournville Village.

Box 27
Book: Rent Book, 1952-1954.
Book: Rent Book, 1961-1962.
Book: Rent Book, 1963-1964.
Folder: About rents, 1930s-1960s.
      See examples from the rent books and rent folder here.
Folder: About 'Sinking Fund'.
Folder: About the garage rents.
Folder: About employment.
Folder: Bournville Tenants Invoices from 1968, containing work done and things bought. See examples here.

Box 28
Folder: Relating to the social life of the society. Example here.
Folder: Woodlands Society (papers relating to another housing society (including Innage Road etc) including 1920 rule book)
Folder: Complaints, Nuisance and Damage
Folder: Housing Application Lists
Folder: Woodlands Park Hall
Folder: Proposed Development at Top Rec, 1960s

Box 31
Books: About 30-40 books relating to social housing, including Bournville, Birmingham, and UK.
Folder: Birmingham Battery & Metal Co. Ltd (relevance uncertain)
Old Book with Photos?

Box 32
Book: Bournville Housing 1912-1920
Scrapbook: Including photos and newspaper clippings
Folder: Including bits and pieces, photos etc

Box 39
Folder: Smoke Control order, 1967, and Clean Air Act, 1956 (contains conversions house by house)
Folder: Bathroom and kitchen conversions, 1957 and 1961. Some for Northfield Road (examples here) and Woodlands Park Road (examples here), lots for Kingsley Road (examples here)

Box 46
Folder: Reports and Accounts, 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, and 1913.
Folder: Applications and Licenses for Builders Materials etc (during WWII)
Folder: Applications and Licenses for Motor Fuel (during WWII) (mainly for the lawn mower!)
7 Folders: Reports and Accounts, 1914-19, 1920-29, 1930-39, 1940-47, 1948-58, 1959-69, 1970-80.

Box 47
List: List of shareholders in 1943.
Folder: Annual Returns - 1962, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67 and 68.
Book: Cash Receipts Analysis, 1930-1969.
Book: Cash Payment Analysis, 1932-1969.


Some of this archive has been added to the blog, to see what's available, click here.