Councillor George Baines

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Date:1905

Description:A newspaper cutting from the Despatch, 22nd November 1905.
Familiar Figures no 797.
A caricature and brief description of the career of George Baines of Handsworth.
He owned 2 of the "best farms in the Perry Barr district" and entered the Handsworth Council in 1895. He was one of the founders of the Perry Barr and District Agricultural Society and had always been prominent in philanthropic movements.

Taken from the G.H. Osborne Newscuttings Collection.

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Perry Barr Local Government Handsworth Farming 1901 - 1913 (Edwardian)

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Donor ref:L 92.3 G.H. Osborne Newscuttings Collection (15/3053)

Source: Local Studies & History Department , Birmingham Central Library

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