‘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...

A works overall documentary picture

Backing paper annotated with: 'Group in Grounds'. This photograph forms part of an archive of photographs produced by Cadbury. Each photograph w...

Bournville Work & Play

The publication Bournville Work & Play was one of a series of publications produced by Cadbury during the 1920s and 30s. The publications we...

Bournville Works and the War 1914-1919

Bournville Works and the War 1914-1919 was a commemorative publication produced at the request of Cadbury’s employees in 1920. Throughout t...

Women Employees arriving at work

Cadbury’s archives hold a bound volume of Personal Reminiscences of Bridge Street and Bournville 1870-1929 by 63 men and women living at the tim...

Advertisement for Holder's Ales, 1891

The title pages from Edgbastonia carried advertisements across the top. This one is for Holder's Ales, owned by Sir John Holder of Moor Gre...

Austin A90 Atlantic Record Breaker

Built at Longbridge, this car established world endurance records at the Indianapolis Raceway in April 1949. It evokes excitement but also illustra...

Bristol Road Tramcar

The Bristol Road Tramway¹ This tram (fleet number 395) is a rare survivor of Birmingham’s once mighty...

Cadbury advertisement: Something Like a Present

This window bill is part of a bound volume of advertisements and other marketing paraphernalia produced by Cadbury at their Bournville Works.

Cadbury advertisement: Testing Room at Bournville

Testing Room at Bournville was one of a series of advertisements published by Cadbury between October and November 1910. Each advertisement ...

Cadbury advertisement: The Cricket Pavilion at Bournville

‘“All work no play” is not the rule in the Factory in a Garden at Bournville.’ The working and leisure environments of the working classes were ...

Cadbury advertisement: This is a Bournville Workroom

Bournville Works and village was a social and industrial experiment devised by George and Richard Cadbury that was made possible by the relocation ...