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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 services, whilst others were used to monitor the workforce ...

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 ...

Cadbury's Postcards

These postcards form part of a bound volume of Stiffeners and Coupon Sheets 1906-1916, by the artist H.N. Bradbear. Very little is known about the artist, but it is probable that he/she worked for Cadbury, ...

Cadbury's Postcards

These postcards form part of a bound volume of Stiffeners and Coupon Sheets 1906-1916, by the artist H.N. Bradbear. Very little is known about the artist, but it is probable that he/she worked for Cadbury, ...

Cadbury's Time Check

Cadbury produced a variety of checks and tokens issued to their employees. Some tokens, like this time check, were used to monitor the workforce and tools.

Cadbury's Tool Check

Cadbury produced a variety of checks and tokens issued to their employees. Some tokens, like this tool check, were used to monitor the workforce and tools, whilst others encouraged employees to use in-house ...

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 ...

Extract from Elizabeth Cadbury's Family Journal

Between 1915 and 1918 Elizabeth Cadbury wrote a weekly family journal that was circulated amongst family members and close friends. These journals provide an insight into the Cadbury’s family life during ...

Fircroft Remand Home, Fircroft College, Bournville

The building was originally a home belonging to the Cadbury family but was turned into a college for disadvantaged people in 1909. In the Second World War, Fircroft College was used temporarily to ...

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).

Girl in fancy dress presenting a bouquet to Elizabeth Cadbury at Bournville Children’s Festival

Letter from Mollie Cadbury to her parents, 26 April 1915

Marian Janet Greeves (née Cadbury) enrolled with the British Red Cross in April 1915 at the age of twenty-one. Like her brother Laurence she saw service in Belgium during World War One. As a Red Cross ...

Nursemaid with her three charges in the Triangle, Sycamore Road, Bournville

Many upper middle class and wealthier families had nurses or governesses to take care of the children. Children often grew very attached to these women and sometimes had a closer relationship with them ...

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. Annie Florence Hackett’s account is typical of those ...

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 troops. As soon as war broke out and troops were deployed ...

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 composition of this image is similar to Frederick Taylor’s ...

Photograph of Cadbury's Forewomen

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 ...