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. Secretaries 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 External links Birmingham Trades Council References Trade unions established in 1866 Trades Council Trades councils Politics of Birmingham, West Midlands