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The Birmingham Banking Company was a bank that operated in Birmingham, West Midlands from 1829 to 1889, and as The Metropolitan and Birmingham Bank from 1889 to 1892, the Metropolitan, Birmingham and South Wales Bank from 1892 to 1893, and the Metropolitan Bank (of England and Wales) from 1893 to 1914, when it was acquired by the Midland Bank.
The Daily Express National Five-a-Sides was an annual indoor football tournament for Football League clubs across England, with Scottish League clubs invited on occasions. The competition was contested between 1968 and 1986.
Jeffrey Spencer, written as Geoff Spencer in some sources, was an English professional footballer who played as an outside right in the Football League for West Bromwich Albion. He appeared in all three of Brighton & Hove Albion's matches in September 1939 before the 1939–40 Football League season was abandoned because of the Second World War, and played non-league football for Willaston White Star, Whitchurch and Nantwich.
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