‘No child can resist’, Picture Post

Advertisers used images of children to catch the viewer’s eye. As families became more affluent they also targeted children as consumers. These adv...

Cadbury Barges

Frank Newbould’s picture unites the corporate Cadbury view of the ‘factory in a garden’ with a ‘Roses and Castles’ folk image of

Cadbury's Cocoa Promotional Jug

Cadbury’s cocoa jugs were promotional gifts produced from the early 1900s until the mid-1930s. The jug was to be used to make Cadbury’s cocoa, usin...

Cadbury's Laundry Check

Cadbury produced a variety of checks and tokens issued to their employees. Some tokens like this laundry check encouraged employees to use in-house...

Cadbury's Marzipan Cutting Department

In 1902 Cadbury established a Visitors Department to manage the large number of people wishing to visit the factory and village. Nearly 4,000 peopl...

Children at a Sugar Factory Estate

This photograph shows children on the estate of Colonial Co., a sugar factory in Trinidad.

Food and Travel Expenses of Lizzie Lamb, age 17

This notebook is an account of Lizzie Lamb, an employee of Cadbury, for one week's record of expenses (food and travel).

Oral Testimony of Annie Florence Hackett

There are very few early twentieth century oral testimonies or first hand accounts giving details of the experiences of Bournville Works' employees...

Packing Comforts for the Troops at Cadbury

This photograph taken during World War One depicts Cadbury employees preparing to ship boxes of Cadbury’s Mexican Chocolate and books to British tr...

Packing Mayfair Chocolates at Cadbury

Backing paper annotated with: 'A scene in "O" Block Top (later called O.B.Third) where "Mayfair" and other Grade 2 lines were packed'. The compo...

Watercolour depicting A Bournville Workroom, attributed to H.N. Bradbear

Two images that typify the depiction of Cadbury and, indeed, the image of its female employees in the early twentieth century, are the watercolour ...

Watercolour depicting East Indian Labourers, by Jeanne Borde

In 1903, Jeanne Borde's watercolour of East Indian Labourers was used on the cover of Brandon Head’s book, The Food of Gods.