War time allotment plots
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These minutes are taken from Birmingham City Council Allotments Committee Minute book in 1940. They show the transfer of public park land from the Parks Committee to the Allotments Committee for the cultivation of crops and increased food production.
They also reveal how Municipal Banks, Post Offices and Public Libraries all had a role to play as public spaces to display posters to promote allotments and increased food production (Birmingham City Council minutes – Allotments Committee Minute book from 10 June 1937 – 10 October 1940).
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Rents of Allotment Sites - War-time Allotments
The following resolution was received from the Parks Committee:-
3811. RESOLVED:- That a rent free period in all cases up to the 25 March 1940 be allowed in respect of sites belonging to this Committee, taken over by the Allotments Committee under the Cultivation of Lands Allotment Order 1939, subject to the concession being passed on to incoming tenants.
The Chairman submitted a letter from the Secretary of the Birmingham and District Allotments Council suggesting that posters with regard to the need for increase food production should be displayed in public vehicles, Public Libraries and Municipal Banks. The Chairman stated that he was of the opinion that the Transport Department could not well be asked to display such posters, but that the Post Office might be asked to do so.
4507. RESOLVED:- That the Public Libraries, the Municipal Bank and the Post Office be asked to display the posters mentioned.
