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Moved Kidder and Macclesfield to non-active branches, neither seems to have met since COVID?
*Extant branches are:
**[[SVR Wolverhampton Branch| '''Wolverhampton''']] (formed in January 1967<ref>SVR News 123 “Wolverhampton Branch – a Thirty Year History”</ref>)
**'''Stourbridge''' (formed in late 1971 as "Wordsley and Stourbridge"<ref>SVR News 21,23</ref>)
*Other branches were:
**'''Birmingham''' (formed by 1969,<ref>SVR News 12</ref> closed in 1992.<ref>SVR News 102 et seq</ref>)
**'''Chester''' (formed by 1971<ref>SVR News 19</ref>, merger with Merseyside proposed in February 1974.<ref>SVR News 30,31</ref>)
**'''Kidderminster''' (formed by 1970<ref>SVR News 16</ref>)
**'''Macclesfield''' (formed in December 1980<ref>SVR News 65</ref>)
**'''Merseyside''' (formed November 1973 and based at Birkenhead.<ref>SVR News 29,30</ref> By summer 1975 "the only surviving branch in the North West".<ref>SVR News 36</ref> Closed circa 1976)
**'''North West''' (originally Warrington Branch, formed in January 1971,<ref>SVR News 18</ref>, meetings suspended in 1974 due to poor attendance and closed in January 1975.<ref>SVR News 32,35</ref>)