| Description | These accounts relate to the maintenance and operation of the Union building at Edgbaston and the Edmund Street branch in the city centre. The ledgers are largely indexed by account name at the front of the volume, and consist of accounts for the maintenance and running of the Union building at Edgbaston and the Guild club at Edmund Street. As well as accounts for repairs and maintenance, rates, insurance, utilities, income tax and staff wages, there are accounts for running the billiards room and gramophone library, room hire and telephone charges income, expenditure on laundry, and the provision of newspapers and magazines.
The cash books contain entries which give detail about the status of individuals being given cash, and an indication of what the payments were for. As well as costs for office expenses and postage there are payments for staff wages and ARP expenses during the Second World War, entries for grants to committees from 1950 onwards, executive officers' expenses, and expenses incurred by receiving delegates and displaced persons, also from 1950 onwards. |