Birmingham Trades Council

Birmingham Trades Council is the trades council body which brings together trade unionists from across Birmingham, England. Its headquarters were formerly in Digbeth, with a huge mural above the canteen area depicting the 1972 Battle of Saltley Gate.

Presidents

 * 1869: Thomas Green
 * 1870:
 * 1871: H. Giles
 * 1874:
 * 1875: C. R. Bowkett
 * 1878: J. Lewis
 * 1880: Allan Grainger
 * 1887: John Valentine Stevens
 * 1889: Alfred Jephcott
 * 1892: C. C. Cooke
 * 1895: Arthur Eades
 * 1898: Henry Simpson
 * 1899: Joseph Millington
 * 1902:
 * 1904: W. J. Morgan
 * 1909:
 * 1910: Joseph Kesterton
 * 1912:
 * 1914: E. E. Edwards
 * 1916: G. Stanway
 * 1917: F. W. Rudland
 * 1919: F. E. Willis
 * 1920: A. Shakespeare
 * 1921: A. P. Cassidy
 * 1922: H. G. Johnson
 * 1924:
 * 1929: H. G. Johnson
 * 1933:
 * 1937: C. G. Spragg
 * 1939: Walter Samuel Lewis
 * 1942: Ernest Haynes
 * 1951: Bob Shorthouse
 * 1955: George Varnom
 * 1961: W. E. Jarvis