| Description | Entitled: '80 - A to C'.
Includes personal letters [box for cricket at Lord’s, Ronald Aird, 15 Feb - 24 May]; invitations to dinner and luncheon [C. J. Kavanagh (British Steelwork Association), 26 May - 8 Jun; before Annual Meeting of the Cripples Hospital, 24 May; Lord Mayor of Birmingham to view the Murdock Locomotive, 11 Apr - 17 Apr; Alderman Bradford (British Legion Headquarters), 5 Apr - 6 Apr; University of Birmingham, 6 Jan - 30 Mar; Institution of Civil Engineers, 28 Feb - 2 Mar; Institute of Quarrying and the National Association of Clay Works Managers, 24 Feb; West Midland Area Conference, British Legion, 21 Feb; the Lincolnshire Iron and Steel Institute, Scunthorpe, 13 Feb; Department of Overseas Trade, 9 Feb - 10 Feb; British Industries Fair, Birmingham, 9 Feb; Chartered Surveyors’ Institution, 5 Jan - 31 Jan; supper at the General Hospital Birmingham ball, 24 Jan - 25 Jan; Annual Dinner of the Furnishing Trades’ Benevolent Association, 10 Jan - 11 Jan]; changes of name [Admiralty Warrant, 28 Jun]; photographs [Birmingham Post & Mail, 20 Jun - 27 Jun]; and goods, services and repairs [interior design, Sibyl Colefax, 30 Jan - 27 Jun; Asprey & Co. account, 10 Feb - 27 Jun; ‘tintocrete’ work to the swimming bath, A. T. & Bertram Butler, 2 May - 19 Jun and The Cement Marketing Co. Ltd, 26 May; Rolls Caydon portable wireless, Anglo Radio Co., 14 Jun; In Memoriam cards, Army & Navy Co-operative Soc. Ltd, 2 Jun; freight, The AA, 12 Apr - 29 May; travel, Bartlett Dixon & Co. Ltd, Personal Travel Agents, 180 New Bond St., London, 9 Jan - 17 May; plovers’ eggs from Buck’s Club, 20 Apr; rubber waders, Messrs J. C. Cording & Co. Ltd, 19 Apr; hunting scarves, Beale & Inman, Ltd, 21 Mar; Cafe de Paris, Coventry Street, 8 Mar - 9 Mar; carriage of a portrait of the Countess of Dudley, 6 Mar; Carlton Carriage Co. Ltd, 14 Feb; linen, H. F. Bartle, 11 Jan; and mirror, Messrs Brot Ltd, 6 Jan; stationery, The Army & Navy Co-operative Society, 3 Jan].
Also refers to ceremonies, events and officiations [Service of St Michael and St George, Colonial Office, 4 Apr - 26 Jun; Governor of the Corps of Commissionaires, with copy Commanding Officer’s Report, 22 Jun - 26 Jun; Salute of the first District Rally of the Committee of No.7 District South Staffordshire (British Legion), 15 Jun - 17 Jun; 50 Kilometre National Championship (Birmingham Walking Club), 27 Jan - 13 Jun; laying of foundation stone of Crouch End College and High School, London, 24 May - 2 Jun; Miners Show, Fete and Sports at Rawnsley, 19 May - 24 May; Children’s Tea and Entertainment, Bilston, 20 May - 24 May; Drum Head Services (British Legion), Kidderminster, 22 May, Walsall Wood 12 May - 17 May and Sutton Coldfield, 12 Apr - 17 Apr; salute at the British Legion Rally, 20 May and March Past (Birmingham), 24 Mar - 27 Mar; Presidency of Bilston Conservative and Unionist Association, 5 May - 6 May; unveiling at the Bromsford Club Parade, 6 May; Cradley XLCR Prize Band to play in the Castle Grounds, 28 Apr; Annual Parade of the Corps of Commissionaires (Birmingham Division), 5 Apr; Honorary Member of the Dudley Rotary Club, 27 Mar; boxing match between Bromsgrove Public School and the Bromsgrove-Brookfields Boys Club, 20 Mar - 22 Mar; election to Court of Governors of Birmingham University, 2 Jan - 2 Mar; Bilston Horticultural Society Fete, 10 Feb - 23 Feb; St George’s hospital bicentenary committee, 11 Feb - 15 Feb; Honorary Member of the Exhibitors’ Guild, 9 Feb; British Industries Fair, 31 Jan - 1 Feb; Divisional Spring Fair at Erdington, 4 Jan]; visits [British Legion at Dudley, 28 Mar; to Hurley, 14 Mar]; and fund raising events [Ball in aid of The Royal Cripples’ Hospital, Birmingham, 16 Jun and matinee at the Alexandra Theatre, 20 Feb - 22 Feb; Subscription Ball for the Lord Mayor of Birmingham’s Employment Fund, 10 Apr; and West Wolverhampton Conservative Association’s Empire Bazaar, 6 Mar - 14 Mar].
Also refers to sale of horses and stabling [H. Cartwright, White Hall, Himley, 14 Jun - 26 Jun; 11 Jan; George Ansory, Catton Hall, 9 Jan]; fishing at Himley [A. Price, 3 Vernon Street, Greets Green, West Bromwich, 20 Jun - 22 Jun]; business [The Earl of Dudley’s Coneygre Blue Brick Works, enclosing trading results, 20 Feb - 21 Jun; statistics of L. M. & S. Railway, Southern Railway, L. & N. E. Railway and G. W. Railway, A. J. Boyd, Vickers House (Metropolitan-Cammell Carriage Wagon & Finance Co.), 16 May - 7 Jun; Railway Rates Tribunal, 6 May; carbonization process of coal by the Illingworth Carbonization Co. Ltd, 20 Apr; ancillary services – railways (Birmingham Chamber of Commerce Inc.), with statistics, 4 Apr; shares in the Canadian Pacific Railway Co., 1 Apr; Birmingham Chamber of Commerce Inc. Reports of the Finance, Club and Railways and Transport Committees, the Retail Trades Section, etc., 14 Mar - 27 Mar; slum clearance housing programme, British Steelwork Association, 6 Mar; London Passenger Transport Bill (The Association of London Omnibus Proprietors, Ltd), 13 Feb]; meetings [Birmingham Chamber of Commerce Inc., with agenda, 20 Jun; British Steelwork Association and I.C.I., 8 May - 9 May; Bilston Conservative and Unionist Association, 8 May - 9 May; C. J. Kavanagh (British Steelwork Association), 15 Feb; Church of England Men’s Society annual conference, 6 Jan - 9 Jan]; publications [Constitutional Year Book of the Conservative and Unionist Central Office, 21 Jun; British Fuel Campaign, 22 Feb - 24 Feb; South American diary, Major J. R. Aird, 3 Feb]; donations and loans of items [City of Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, 17 Apr - 19 Jun]; finance [Ronald Aird and The Yorkshire Insurance Co. Ltd, James Seely, 31 May; transfer of stocks, Robert Benson & Co. Ltd, 22 Feb - 18 Mar]; reference of employees and procuring employment or candidature [Himley Cartwright, 17 May - 19 May; Mewburn, 1 May - 6 May; Nigel Bruce, 23 Mar - 27 Mar; Mr Sandford, 1 Feb]; sale of 38 Green Street [Messrs Constable & Maude, 20 Apr - 26 Apr]; subscriptions [Birmingham Racecourse Co., 19 Apr - 21 Apr; Ciro’s Club, 11 Feb - 5 May]; firearm certificate [Chief Constable, Stafford, 21 Apr] and complaint of police constable [17 Apr]. |