Free rainy day activity ☔️🌧️ Join the #UnlockingtheVaults team today (Sat 7 Feb) at The Exchange #Birmingham for Heritage Unlocked
11am-3pm
Wander round the building and learn about its history with tours, talks, children’s trails, performances from The Rep and meet the archive volunteer team!
More details about Heritage Unlocked Showcase event
this Sat 7 Feb 11am - 3pm at The Exchange
Lots to see and do with building tours, trails, performance based oral histories, and meet the #UnlockingtheVaults team and volunteer research group
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The latest blog from @theironroom.bsky.social about #UnlockingtheVaults project and #Birmingham Municipal Bank.
Ties in with the Heritage Unlocked Showcase Event this week
📆Sat 7 February at
🏛️The Exchange @unibirmingham.bsky.social
All welcome (drop in) between 11am-3pm
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Front of promotional flyer for Unlocking the Vaults with images of people opening a vault and safety deposit boxes. Text: Discover the remarkable story of Birmingham Municipal Bank. Join us as we open the doors to its past and celebrate its lasting impact on the city.
Reverse of promotional flyer detailing events throughout 2026 for Unlocking the Vaults project. Black and white background with text and images of building and children in vault.
Lots to look forward to in 2026 for #UnlockingtheVaults at The Exchange
📆Sat 7 Feb 11-3: Heritage Unlocked - come and meet me and members of the volunteer research group to learn more about what we have uncovered.
📆July -November: Unlocking the Vaults Exhibition
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/herit...
A building in brick and timber with windows and a door to the right. This was originally the Bournville Estates office then then the Bournville branch of Birmingham Municipal Bank from 1956.
A colourful poster in purple and yellow with white text showing the first Cadbury advent calendar launched in 1971. Cadbury Archive and reproduced with permission Mondelez International.
Image of Fry's chocolate advertisement items (a sign and box). Cadbury took over Fry's in 1919 and moved production to their Somerdale site just outside Bristol. Items at Cadbury Archive, Mondelez International, Bournville, Birmingham.
A fab visit to the Cadbury archive for the #UnlockingtheVaults project (Bournville Works branch of Birmingham Municipal Bank). So much to see and learn with banking connections to Fry's and Bristol
+ Lovely childhood memories of chocolate and Xmas! Thank you to Sarah and Colin for the warm welcome.
Excited to be part of the Autumn Programme at #TheExchange
'Pioneers: Thrift Radiates Happiness' the story of Birmingham Municipal Bank as part of Birmingham Heritage Week
📅Weds 17 Sept
#UnlockingtheVaults project supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and University of Birmingham
People sitting at tables with archive boxes and display cushions in the Wolfson Room at Birmingham Library, UK
3 people sitting at table looking at archive material on cushions in the Wolfson Room at Birmingham Library, UK
Two books, Britain First Municipal Bank by J. P. Hilton and More than Munich: The forgotten legacy of Neville Chamberlain by Andrew Reekes.
A great session 5 with the #UnlockingtheVaults volunteer research group this week with lots of photo albums to look at 📸 A joy to see how curious volunteers are and using their new research skills to search online catalogues and request material from other collections @theironroom.bsky.social 😍🤩🔎
