The Birmingham Emergency Accommodation Bureau was determined to tackle such iniquities by co-ordinating the work of Birmingham's housing improvement trusts - the forerunners of housing associations.
Hundreds of properties, many in Hoylake and West Kirby but also including those further afield, have now been listed on The Open Championship Accommodation Bureau website, www.stayattheopen.com.
Officials at accommodation bureau Marketing Birmingham were last week forced to advise would-be visitors to go to Coventry instead, since all hotels in Birmingham were full.
The address of Harvard's Learning Centre on the letter turned out to a business accommodation bureau at a company called Temples Limited which provides PO boxes and phone answering services.
Will not the Minister take some action on a matter which is stirring the conscience, not only of the Churches and the political parties, but of the whole of the people in Birmingham?'' As Shurmer stated, churches and voluntary welfare associations were becoming increasingly worried over the plight of the homeless and in August 1956 they set up the Birmingham, Emergency Accommodation Bureau.
Equally, the people will be filled with disgust at the action of the public works committee in refusing the rent-free use of otherwise valueless premises for a few months to help forward the great work already started by the Emergency Accommodation Bureau.
Equally, they will be filled with disgust at the Public Works Committee for refusing the rent-free use of otherwise valueless premises for a few months to help the great work already of the Emergency Accommodation Bureau. When the Housing chairman says that the bureau's work is 'superfluous', he is talking rubbish, as thousands of the bureau's applicants would prove.
Equally they will be filled with disgust by the action of the public works committee in refusing the rent-free use of otherwise valueless premises for a few months to help forward the great work started by the Emergency Accommodation Bureau.
Officials at accommodation bureau Marketing Birmingham have now been forced to advise would-be visitors to go to Coventry instead, since all hotels in Birmingham are already full.