Jewellers’ Benevolent Association dates from Oct. 25, 1867.

Medical.—­A Midland Medical Benevolent Society has been in existence since 1821.  The annual report to end of 1883 showed invested funds amounting to L10,937, there being 265 benefit members and 15 honorary.

Musical.—­The Birmingham Musical Society consists almost solely of members of the Choral Society, whose fines, with small subscriptions from honorary members, furnishes a fund to cover rehearsal, and sundry choir expenses as well as 10s in cases of sickness.

New Meeting Provident Institution was founded in 1836, but is now connected with the Church of the Messiah.  A little over a thousand members, one-third of whom are females.

Oddfellows.—­The National Independent Order of Oddfellows, Birmingham Branch, was started about 1850.  At the end of 1879 there were 1,019 members, with about L4,500 accumulated funds.

The Birmingham District of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows in January, 1882, consisted of 43 lodges, comprising 4,297 members, the combined capital of sick and funeral funds being L42,210.  Tho oldest Lodge in the District is the “Briton’s Pride,” which was opened in 1827.

The first Oddfellows’ Hall was in King Street, but was removed when New Street Station was built.  The new Oddfellows’ Hall in Upper Temple Street was built in 1849, by Branson and Gwyther, from the designs of Coe and Goodwin (Lewisham, Kent), at a cost of L3,000.  Tim opening was celebrated by a dinner on December 3rd, same year.  The “Hall” will accommodate 1,000 persons.  The Oddfellows’ Biennial Moveable Committee met in this town on May 29th, 1871.

The M.U.  Lodges meet at the following houses:—­Fox, Fox Street; White
Horse, Congreve Street; Swan-with-two-Necks, Great Brook Street; Albion,
Cato Street North; Hope and Anchor, Coleshill Street; 13, Temple Street;
Wagon and Horses, Edgbaston Street; Crystal Palace, Six Ways, Smethwick;
The Vine, Harborne; Prince Arthur, Arthur Street, Small Heath; George
Hotel, High Street, Solihull; Bell, Phillip Street; Bull’s Head,
Digbeth; Edgbaston Tavern, Lee Bank, Road; The Stork, Fowler Street,
Nechells; Three Tuns, Digbeth; Town Hall, Sutton Coldfield; Coffee
House, Bell Street; Coach and Horses, Snow Hill; Roe Buck, Moor Street;
Drovers’ Arms, Bradford Street; Co-operative Meeting Room, Stirchley
Street; Black Lion, Coleshill Street; Queen’s Head, Handsworth; No. 1
Coffee House, Rolfe Street, Smethwick; New Inn, Selly Oak; Wagon and
Horses, Greet; Talbot, Yardley; Saracen’s Head, Edgbaston Street;
Dolphin, Unett Street; Grand Turk, Ludgate Hill; Roebuck, Moor Street;
White Swan, Church Street; White Lion, Thorpe Street; Queen’s Arms, Easy
Row; Rose and Crown, Wheeler Street, Lozells.