Description:The watercolour design by Frederick Taylor of Q Block was reproduced as a colour print in various publications, including the centre-fold to Bournville Work and Play.<small><sup>1</sup></small> Q Block was described as a large single storey building devoted to the construction of card box making. The space was divided into three areas which included printing, card cutting and box making. Iolo Williams described the view from the raised platform that is depicted in the centre of the image, describing it as ‘one of the most vividly picturesque sights in Bournville’.<small><sup>2</sup></small> Taylor’s watercolour offered a new perspective of the Bournville Works, one which undeniably represented a significant manufacturing venture. The expansion of the company and its continued mechanisation, led to the gradual replacement of small workrooms at the Bournville Works. In this image the people, mainly women because this was one of the girls departments, are dwarfed by the sheer scale of the space. The image depicts hundreds of employees rather than the small groups more typically represented working around work benches in much contemporary Cadbury imagery.
<font color="#666633"><small><sup>1</sup> Watercolour of Q Block, by Fred Taylor [BM&AG: 1980P84]
<sup>2</sup> Iolo A. Williams, The Firm of Cadbury, p.80</small></font>