♞	BDCL Clubs
	Thanks to  Alan F. Brookes. (Bulletin Editor 1968-74) for THE FIRST SEVENTY FIVE YEARS 1897-1972……….. I will try to add the rest, don’t hold your Breath.
	Clubs that may have been affiliated and then went out of existance between 1905 & 1914 may not be recorded due to the dearth of information.
	Errors may exist as with most epitomes which have been carried out in retrospect. If you can correct any let me know.
	Clubs	Affiliated	Played	Notes
	610	1977		Formerly Perrystanding from 1932-1948 then Kingstanding 1948-1969 then Great Barr 1969-1977 then 610
	Acocks Green	1910	1910-14	Champions ❸ 1911
	Aldridge-Brownhills N.A.L.G.O.	1969		Entered joint team with Sutton Coldfield Corporation , functions taken over by West Midlands Municipal
	Aldridge & District	1981	1981-09	Formerly Birlec, Aldridge & District disbanded in 2009, The remaining players Joined Boldmere St Michaels
	Assay Office	1921	1921-39
	Aston Chain & Hook	1960	1960-62
	Aston Consevatives	1914	1914-15	Most of the members killed in the First World War, club disbanded 1918
	Aston Old Edwardians	1932	1932-34	Formed in 1892
	Aston University	1966	1966-68 1971-81	Champions ❺ 1971 & 1972 Formerly College of Technology
	Austin Motors	1947	1947-63	Played from the Longbridge factory, Champions ❹ 1953
	Avery	1953	1953-56
	Bakerlite	1963	1963-83
	Bearwood Baptists	1932	1932-34	Champions ❸ 1934 Formerly Smethwick played for two years as Bearwood Baptists then reverted to Smethwick in 1935,
	B.I.P. Chemicals	1962	1962-69
	Birlec	1970	1970-81	Became Aldridge & District in 1981 when the works closed
	Birmingham	1899	1899-01 1920-39 1949-2019	One of the oldest chess Clubs formed 23rd October 1851 League ❶ Champions 10 times. Player A.(Tony)J.Miles became Britains First UK born Grand Master 1976.
	Birmingham Central	1897	1897-1900	Founder Members 1897, know to have existed prior 1897
	Birmingham Checkmates	2010	2010-13	Formed out of a Junior Saturday Chess club, Shared the Warley Quinbourne venue
	Birmingham City Police	1970	1970-74	Became West Midlands Police in 1974
	Birmingham Gas	1954	1954-57
	Birminhgam International Centre	1956	1956-58
	Birmingham Post & Mail	1935	1935-37
	Birmingham Settlement	2004	2004-2006	see Lucas (North)
	Birmingham Small Arms	1921	1921-22 1945-63	Known as B.S.A. Played from the Armory Works Small Heath
	Birmingham Telephone Area	1968	1968-86	Champions ❸ 1972, ❺ 1970
	Bohemians	1898	1898-1931	Formed 1897 played 1898-1931, Secretary P. Allender was also Joint BDCL General Secretary for 6 years. Bohemians shared venue with City and YMCA Dale End, before moving to the Cobden Hotel, League ❶ Champions a Record 12 times 1929 being the last W.R.Morry originally played for them and won his Individual 2 title 1928-29 before joining Erdington
	Boldmere	2002	2019	See Oscott
	Booths	1945	1945-46
	Bordesley Liberals	1897	1897-98	Founder Members 1897, know to have existed in 1894
	Bournville	1921	1921-34 1936-37 1948-61	Played from the Cadburys Factory, Champions ❷ 1951, 1955,  Champions ❹ 1950 Winners of Terrill Trophy 1957
	Brierley Hill	1900	1900-01 1904-05
	Britannic	1948	1948-55
	Bromsgrove	1976	1976
	Brook Oil	1949	1949-50 1951-56	Known as Brooks
	Burmans	1949	1949-50	Played from Bartley Green factory
	Bushbury	1962	1962-65 1976-to-date	Bushbury formed 1962. played BDCL two seasons 1964-66 then from 1976-onwards,  Former Head teacher Phil Staley was Secretary for over 50 years.League ❶ Champions 5 times
	Camp Hill Old Edwardians	1905	1905-06 1933-34 1936-39	Known to have existed in 1893
	Chance & Hunt	1946	1946-55
	Chapel Street	1962	1962-63	Champions ❸ 1963 Changed name after one season to Handsworth Wood.
	Chrysler (UK)	1968	1968-71	Known as Rootes Motors until 1970, Double winners 1970, Champions ❼ & Townshend Trophy.
	Circle	1956	1956-59	Champions ❷ 1952
	City	1904	1904-49 1950-62	League ❶ Champions 4 times, Sometimes known as City of Birmingham. had no conection with Birmingham Corporation H.W.Clark secretary of City & W.H.Dry secretary of Erdington were also joint BDCL secretaries for 20 years 1919-39, City , Joined Erdington 1962-66
	City & Erdington	1962	1962-66	Formed as an amalgamation of City and the Erdington Club. Champions ❹ 1964, Winners of Terrill Trophy 1963, 1966
	City Architects	1967	1967-68	Incorporated into West Midlands Municipal 1970
	City Transport	1949	1949	Played half a season and withdrew
	Cival Service	1933	1933-34	played one season
	Colebrook Shirley	1996	1996-2000	formerly Solihull Lodge now playing from the Colebrook public house
	College of Technology	1958	1958-66	Champions ❹ 1965, Became Aston University in 1966
	Cosmopolitans	Unkown	Between 1905-1914	Champions ❸ 1912
	Coventry	1904	1904-05 1926-36	League ❶ Champions 1932, Sometimes known as Coventry Three Spires. Known to have existed in 1893
	Coventry St Osburgs	1924	1924-27
	Deaf & Dumb Association	1924	1924-25
	District Iron & Steel	1973
	Docker Brothers	1964	1964-70	Champions ❼ 1965, Ladywood, Birmingham 16 Became Pinchin Johnson in 1970
	Dudley	1897	1897-00 1910-14 1947-51 1966-96	Founder Members 1897, & the First BDCL League Campions 1897-98 season.  know to have existed in 1894
	Dunlop	1926	1926-63	Champions ❸ 1912, 1933, Champions ❹ 1933, 1936,  First Club to raise seven teams 1932
	East Birmingham	1952	1967-92	Known as New road 1952-57 then Handsworth 1957-67 joined Solihull 1992
	Edgbaston	1950	1950-52
	Edgbaston Unity	1923	1923-25
	Ellisons	1968	1968- x	Otherwise known as George Ellisons Ltd
	Erdington	1899	1899-02 1908-49 1953-62	League ❶ Champions 5 times Erdington formed 1899 -1962, W.R.Morry Joined in 1929-66 and won 5 individual and 6 Division 1 titles, became City and Erdington 1962-66,
	Erdington & Handsworth		1919-20	A joint team made of reserve players from Erdington & Handsworth second teams, This practice has since been banned.
	Evening Dispatch	1937	1937-38 1948-49
	Fisher & Ludlow	1951	1951-57
	Friends Institute	1901		Formerly Wesleyan & General reverted back to its original name after 1901.
	General Electric Company	1933	1933-72	Champions ❹ 1934 Known as Magnet from 1933-38 Townshend winners 1969.
	Golden Hillock	1960	1960-77	Started in 1960 by Head teacher D.L.A.Nicolle, Known as Golden Hillock & St Michaels from 1966-1972. First Team to be promoted from Div ❼ to Div ❶ 1960-71, P.C.Robertson won 5 Indy titles
	Goodyear	1949	1949-52
	Great Barr	1969	1969-1977	known as Perrystanding from 1932-1948 then Kingstanding 1948-1969 then Great Barr 1969-1977 then 610
	Greenlands	2005	2005-2020	Greenlands formerly St James 2020 become Longbridge
	Halesowen
	Handsworth (New Road)	1952	1952-67	Known as New Road 1952-56 and Handsworth from 1956-67 then became East Birmingham
	Handsworth Wood	1963	1963-81 1989-2006	Playing from Chapel Street Methodist Church, Champions ❼ 1962 in their first season, moved to Cherry Orchard Hall Hampsted Hill became Handsworth Wood 1963, after another venue changes became The Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes, (R.A.O.B) 1981, then Holly Lane 1988 and then reverted back to Handsworth Wood 1989-2006.
	Handsworth Y.M.C.A.	1897	1897-01 1902-04 1914-23	Founder Members 1897,
	Harborne	1920	1920-34	Known to have existed in 1897. Champions ❸ 1921,
	Harborne Red Triangle	1922	1922-25	Champions ❸ 1923,
	Harrisons	1932	1932-39	Champions ❹ 1935
	Hockley
	Hodge Hill
	Hopes
	Hoskins & Sewell
	Holly Lane	1988	1988-89	Handsworth Wood, payed as Holly Lane for one season 1988 after being The Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes, (R.A.O.B),
	H. Samuels
	Induction	1921	1921	Works Team from Wellhead Lane Perry Barr
	Insurance Institute
	John Thompson
	Kings Norton	1922	1922-	After one Season in Northfield they Played from the Friends Meeting Hall Cotteridge,
	Kingstanding
	Kingstanding North Birmingham	1998	1998-2002	See Oscott
	Kynoch	1937	1937-to-date	Originated from europes biggest ammunition factory Witton, League ❶ Champions 9 times
	Lichfield	1971	1971-to-date	Joined in 1971 League ❶ Champions 3 times being on the fringes, Their Players probably cover the most miles to complete a seasons fixtures,
	Longbridge	2020		Formerly Greenlands
	Lozells Street Hall	1946	1946-47	See Oscott
	Lozells	1947	1947-78	See Oscott
	Lucas (Lucas North)	1945	1945-96	see Saint Georges
	Lucas Birmingham Settlement	2004	1996-04	see Saint Georges
	Lucas South (Automotive)	1967	1967-02	Champions ❾ 1989. Champions ❽ 1991. Champions ❼ 1996. after Factory Closure 2002 Joined Shirley to be known as Shirley Lucas.
	Magnet Works	1933	1933-38	Champions ❹ 1934, became General Eletric Company 1938
	Mercia	1971	1971-82 1990-to-date	Champions ❹ 2010. Champions ❺ 1982. Champions ❼ 1991. Competed in other leagues prior to 1971.
	Midlands Electricity Board	1956	1956-x	Champions ❼ 1971.
	Midland Insitue			Birmingham have played under this name being members of both was once a condition of Birminghams membership.
	Midland Project Group	1964	1964-72	Champions ❺ 1969, Champions ❻ 1967
	Ministry of Works	1959	1959-60
	Morris Commercial	1959	1959-60
	Morris  Motors	1937	1937-39
	Moseley	1900	1900-01	Known to have existed in 1896
	Moss Gear	1949	1949-55
	Municipal	1921	1921-23
	Muntz Metal	1922	1922-24
	Mutual Circle	1923	1923-to-date	Formed by T.W.Bladon 1920 League ❶ Champions 5 times, 2nd Longest running Club without a Break in the League The name came from a Circle of Friends taking it in turns to play at each others houses
	New Road	1952	1952-56	The New Road club formed in 1952-57 then became Handsworth 1957-67 then East Birmingham 1967-92 Champions ❹ 1954,
	Newhall	1900	1900-02 1903-04
	North Birmingham (Original)	1921	1921-37	Played from the Burlington Hall, Aston.  No connection to the following Club with the same name.
	North Birmingham	1977	1977-98	See Oscott
	Northfield	1948	1948-57
	Northfield Checkmates	2002	2002-09	Splintered from Lucas Birmingham Settlement, 2002, Rejoined St George's 2009,  still exists outside the league until (2016)
	North Worcestershire	1938	1938-39 1946-48
	Nuffield (Metal Products)	1946	1946-49	Nuffield (Metal Products) in Common Lane was the original name before becoming Wolseley Cars and Later Leyland Daf
	Old Nortonians
	Olton	1945	1945-to-date	15 Championships and over 25 Individual Trophies. Believed not to be connected to the 1893 club of the same name
	Oratory	1899	1899-04	Champions ❸ 1902,
	Oscott	2019	2019-to-date	Venues change names. West Birmingham 1932-46, became Lozells Street Hall 1946 then Lozells 1947-78, amalgamated with Tucker Fastners 1978-98, became North Birmingham, (No connection to the 1921 club) amalgamated with Kingstanding to be Kingstanding North B'ham 1998-02, Moved and became Boldmere 2002. moved again and became Oscott 2019-20
	Osram
	Parkinsons	1932	1932-54	Known as Parkinson-Monitor in 1948
	Perrystanding	1932	1932-48	Became Kingstanding in 1948, then Great Barr in 1969 then 610 in 1967 then back to 19
	Pheasey	1945	1945-48	Old Barn, Pheasey Estate, Birmingham
	Pinchin Johnson	1970	1970-76	Known as dockers until 1970 Ladywood, Birmingham 16
	Pineapple Estate	1929	1929-31	Pineapple Estate existed in Kings Heath, Birmingham
	Post Office	1912	1912-29 1930-35	Champions ❸ 1913, Champions ❷ 1926, Champions ❷ 1931
	Quinborne	1950	1950-1978	Promoted in their first season from ❸ to ❷, Champions ❸ 1972, Merged with Warley 1978 to be Warley Quinborne
	R.A.O.B.	1981	1981-88	See Handsworth Wood
	Redditch (Liberals)	1900	1900-03 1921-to-date	Although not continuously Redditch can be traced back to 1900 in the BDCL when they won Div ❷ on board count 51½ - 47 over Erdington
	Rootes Motors	1968	1968-70	Became Chrysler in 1970
	Rover	1962	1962-65
	Rushall	1982	1982-2009 2015-to-date	Champions ❻ 2016
	Severn Valley	1929	1929-32
	Shirley	2000	2000-02	see Shirley Wythall
	Shirley Lucas	2002	2002-11	see Shirley Wythall
	Shirley Wythall	2011	to-date	Solihull Lodge Became Colebrook Shirley in 1996 after the Public House venue, In 2000 after moving  just Shirley, In 2002 they Amalgamated with Lucas Automotive to be Shirley Lucas., In 2011 they Amalgamated and moved to Wythall Chess Club to become Shirley Wythall
	Siviter Smith	1952	1952-53
	Small Heath	1903	1903-05	Known to have existed in 1895
	Smethwick	1897	1897-1903 1921-22 1935-1966	Founder Members 1897, played for six years then faded until revived in 1921 played one season and faded until revived again in 1932 as Bearwood Baptists, played 1932-34 as Bearwood Baptists, reverted in 1935 back to Smethwick, played 1935-66. Changed name to Warley in 1966 then in 1978 amalgamated with Quinborne to be Warley Quinborne.
	Soho Hill Old Edwardians	1920	1920-26	Champions ❷ 1922
	Solihull	1948	1948-to-date	Solihull  joined the League in 1948 amalgamated with West Warwickshire in 1990 to be West Warwickshire Solihull, Joined by East Birmingham 1992, reverted back to Solihull 1994-95
	Solihull Lodge	1970	1970-96	see Shirley Wythall
	Solihull Youth			Solihull Youth Chess Club were formed from Solihull following no concessions being offered at that venue/time to the juniors Solihull Youth Chess Club.
	South Birmingham	1945	1945-to-date	League ❶ Champions 9 times since the millenium, 8 teams across all Divisions 2008, 2017 & 2022 seasons, Only club to have fielded four teams in Division 1 2016-17
	Sparkbrook Assosiation	1970	1970-x	Not to be confused with the original Sparkbrook Club of 1895
	Sparkhill	1897	1897-02 1904-14	Founder Members 1897, League ❶ Champions 1909, Champions ❷ 1910. Known to have existed in 1896.
	St Georges	1897	1887-1913	Founder Members 1897, League ❶ Champions 4 consecutive Seasons 1899, 1900. 1901, 1902.
	Saint Georges	2006	2006-to-date	Factory Closure forcing venue change, became Lucas Birmingham Settlement. In 2004 amalgamation with West Midlands Municipal, became just Birmingham Settlement, moved again in 2006 became Saint George's.
	St James	1973	2005	Started in 1973 from St James Church Rednal, following the Fischer vs Spassky World Championships, fielded 7 teams in a season, Became Greenlands 2005 after venue change
	St Laurence	1948	1948-53	played from the ... Northfield Pastoral Centre
	St Peters College	1961	1961-67	Champions ❻ 1965
	St Vincents	1932	1932-33 1938-39
	Stewart & Lloyds	1963	1963-67	Champions ❺ 1967, Champions ❻ 1966
	Stourbridge	1897	1897-99 1904-05 1926-29	Founder Members 1897, League ❶ Champions 1977,  1978, 15 Championships. Known to have existed in 1896.
	Sutton Coldfield	1942	1942-to-date	League ❶ Champions 10 times,  7 teams in one season, 1967-68, Started as YMCA (Sutton) 1937-42, B.H.Wood Secretary, Sutton Coldfield 1942, B.H.Wood won 8½ Individual 1 Titles and Founder of CHESS (Monthly) Magazine 1935. Sutton Coldfield have curently won the most BDCL Honours.
	Sutton Coldfield Corporation
	Tame & Rea
	Tamworth (District)		-2014
	Temperence Institute	1899
	Thomas Baldwin
	Thompsons			See John Thompsons
	Town Clerks Dept	1958	1958-59
	Tubes	1938	1938-39 1953-68	Champions ❺ 1961,
	Tucker Fastners			1888 Manufacturing eyelets for leather boots then Pop rivets,  merged with Lozells to become North Birmingham. Not connected to the Original N.B. 1921 Club.
	T.I. Export
	University Birmingham	1920	1920-39 1947-05 2012-to-date	League ❶ Champions 4 times in a row,  five clubs have achieved this, known as just University untill Aston University came along in 1966, 28 Championships in total
	Walsall	1897	1897-1924	Founder Members 1897, Champions ❷ 1908, 1915, 1920, Champions ❸ 1914. known to have existed in 1893
	Walsall Kipping	1932	1932-34 1936-to-date	Formed 1932. Cyril Stanley Kipping was the Head Master at Wednesbury High School and a leading problem composer. Over 6000 of these were published, League ❶ Champions 5 times,
	Warley	1966	1966-78	Champions ❻ 1972, Formerly Smethwick & Bearwood Baptists, amalgamated with Quinborne 1978.
	Warley Quinborne	1978	1978-to-date
	Wednesbury	1903	1903-04 1924-26
	West Birmingham	1932	1932-33 1934-37 1938-39 1946-47	Existed in 1894 as a Draughts Club. Became Lozells in 1947 after one season as Lozells Street Hall. still playing after several name changes now as Oscott
	West Bromwich	1900	1900-03 1911-to-date	The Longest running team in the BDCL without a break (106, 2017) League ❶ Champions 1950
	West Midlands Municipal	1970	1970-2004	Champions ❼ 1972. An amalgamation of the Municipal Chess Clubs in the area Sutton Coldfield Corporation, Birmingham City Architects and Aldridge-Brownhills NALGO. Revives the functions of the earlier Municipal club.  In 2004 Municipal Joined Lucas Birmingham Settlement to be known as just Birmingham Settlement.
	West Midlands Police	1974	1974-to-date	Formerly Birmingham City Police
	Westminster	1899	1899-1907-14?	Sometimes known as Westminster Guild Champions ❸ 1903. 1904, 1907 no connection to the following club
	Westminster (Lady)	1999	1999-to-date	Started as Lady Westminster 1999 after Bob Trevis's pub where they were formed which was a Bank. Guess which one, dropped the Lady after a venue Change
	Wesleyan & General	1899	1899-1904 1950-1989	Champions ❸ 1971. Known from 1901-04 as Friends Institute. Took over the fuctions of former Wesley House Club 1888
	Wilmot Breeden	1938	1938-49 1951-52
	Wolseley	1949	1949-53 1972-2010	Wolseley Chess Club 1949-2010, former car makers, was Known as Nuffield pre 1949 Wolseley joined Westminster in 2010
	Wolverhampton	1899	1899-1900 1901-14 1921-57	Formed 1899 Before the First World War also Known as Wolverhampton Y.M.C.A. To confuse the issue Angus also played under this name during the 1924-25 seasonLeague ❶ Champions 5 times
	Wolverhampton Y.M.C.A.		1970-71 1976-to-date
	Wolverhampton Angus	1924	1924-26	Champions ❹ 1925, Known as Wolverhampton Y.M.C.A. in 1925-26
	Wolverhampton Kipping	1945	1945-1980	League ❶ Champions 5 times, became Rock Kipping 1978-79 then withdrew from the League at the end of 1979-80
	Woodville	1947	1947-1955	from 1947-50 known as Central:  Chamged name so not to be confused with the original Central Club of 1896
	Wythall	1984	1984-2000	Played from Wythall House 52 Silver Street, Wythall,
	Y.M.C.A. (Dale End)	1899	1899-1900 1901-30	League ❶ Champions 1914 know to have existed in 1893 Shared the Dale End venue with Bohemians and City clubs
	Y.M.C.A. Sutton Coldfield	1937	1937-42	Became Sutton Coldfield during WW2
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