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, using the company’s iconic Cocoa Essence. An early version ...
Cadbury's Dining Room Check
Cadbury produced a variety of checks and tokens issued to their employees. Some tokens like this dining room check encouraged employees to use in-house services, whilst others were used to monitor the ...
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 ...
Children at a Sugar Factory Estate
This photograph shows children on the estate of Colonial Co., a sugar factory in Trinidad.
China
Originally captioned 'View of Glass Cutting Shop. Hong Kong & Macao. Glass. Co. Hong Kong', June 1886. From the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
China
Originally captioned 'Chinese Workpeople. Carpenter, Needle-woman, etc.' From the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
Crescent Bicycles Catalogue, Arthur E. Sayer & Co., Sherlock Street, Birmingham
This catalogue shows that companies were actively marketing bicycles to women by 1900. Inside we find the 'Crescent No 3' Ladies Safety model, which has 'saddle and handle positions arranged to allow ...
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).
Indian Workers' Association GB [IMG]
Indian Workers’ Association GB (Birmingham Branch) MS 2141 IWA
The IWA combined Marxist politics with a concern for the plight of Asians and other immigrants in Britain and had a close, if sometimes ...
Kulwant Ubhi and his friend Tony
Photograph of Kulwant Ubhi and his friend Tony at Startins, Aston, Birmingham.
Photograph by Sukhvinder Singh Ubhi, 1990s.
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Lee Enfield Rifle
During WW1 the Lee Enfield rifle was manufactured in Birmingham at two factories: the Birmingham Small Arms Company in Small Heath (at BSA Guns, Armoury Road) and the Royal Small Arms Factory in Sparkbrook. ...
Locomotive and Tender built for the Pitmaston Moor Green Model Railway
Just outside the boundaries of the Edgbaston Calthorpe Estate lay Sir John Holder’s estate at Pitmaston, close to Joseph Chamberlain’s home at Highbury. The Holders were brewers – a magnificent tiled ...