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 were intended to promote the working practices of the company, ...
Boy and toy horse
Photograph by Lisel Haas entitled 'Das Neue Pferd' (the new horse).
Brigitte Winsor: Photographs of the St Patrick's Day Parade
Photographs of the procession through Digbeth, Birmingham, by Brigitte Winsor.
The St Patrick's Day Parade in Birmingham started in 1952 and is now the World's largest after New York and Dublin.
On ...
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 was designed to promote a different aspect of the Bournville ...
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 the focus of many middle class reformers and social investigators ...
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 of their company from central Birmingham to rural Bournbrook ...
Cadbury advertisement: This is a part of the Bournville Recreation Grounds
This is a part of the Bournville Recreation Grounds was one a series of advertisements published by Cadbury between October and November 1910. Whereas the advertisement entitled This is a Bournville Workroom1 ...
Cadbury's Card Box Department
Backing paper annotated with: 'The department in the early years of the century, before the move to Q Block'.
This photograph forms part of an archive of photographs produced by Cadbury. Each photograph ...
Cadbury's Cocoa Labelling
This photograph forms part of an archive of photographs produced by Cadbury. Each photograph was catalogued and annotated. Some images were used in publications and advertisements, whilst others were ...
Cadbury's Lodge, Bournville
Backing paper annotated with: 'The Lodge as it appeared for many years before and after the turn of the century. It was for a considerable period the main entrance for the girl employees, and their time ...
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 people visited in the first year to glimpse the world of George ...
Certificate for Long Service at Cadbury
This certificate was awarded to Amelia Drew, an employee of Cadbury, after seventeen years service. It was awarded on the fifth of April 1930. Amelia Drew began working for the company in 1913, and as ...
Ceylon
'Kandyan ladies (and Chiefs) '. Ceylon [Sri Lanka]. From the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone
'Charity', by Bourguereau
Oil painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905).
For the early Christian Church ‘Charity’ was the ‘mother of all virtues’. From at least the 16th century artists and poets depicted Charity as ...
Child Portrait, by Emma Barton
A mother’s pleasure in her child’s body was a standard feature of photographic portraiture in the late 19th century and can be found in the work of Birmingham born Emma Barton (1872-1938). She preferred ...