View of New Tower Blocks and Infrastructure, by Reginald Edgecombe
Reginald Edgecombe was a designer commissioned by the Council to produce artist’s impressions of what Birmingham might look like post-war once reconstruction was complete. A collection of his watercolour ...
Views in St Thomé and Angola by William Cadbury and Joseph Burtt
This photograph album was produced as a limited run of 50 copies by Cadbury and supported William Cadbury’s 1909 publication Labour in Portuguese West Africa. The album and book documented William Cadbury ...
War Munitions Volunteer Badge
This badge was in use from 1916 and was assigned to skilled men not already involved in other vital war work; they were issued by the Ministry of Munitions for employees of official armaments companies ...
Watercolour depicting A Bournville Workroom, attributed to H.N. Bradbear
Two images that typify the depiction of Cadbury and, indeed, the image of its female employees in the early twentieth century, are the watercolour design of A Bournville Workroom, c.1910, attributed to ...
Watercolour depicting East Indian Labourers, by Jeanne Borde
In 1903, Jeanne Borde's watercolour of East Indian Labourers was used on the cover of Brandon Head’s book, The Food of Gods.1
1 Brandon Head, The Food of Gods: A Popular Account of Cocoa (1903)
Watercolour depicting Harvesting Cocoa Pods, by Jeanne Borde
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery’s collections include artwork associated with Cadbury during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The earliest images are a group of watercolours produced ...
Watercolour depicting Cadbury's Girls' Ground, by H.N. Bradbear
‘[Where] industrial life today is concerned, Work and Play are not only closely related subjects, but one subject’.1
The classic image of the Cadbury’s girl at leisure, in the early twentieth century ...
Watercolour depicting Cadbury's Q Block, by Frederick Taylor
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.1 Q Block was described as a large ...
Watercolour depicting entrance to Cadbury's Bournville Works, by Claude Buckle
This watercolour depicts the main entrance hall on Bournville Lane. The artist Claude Buckle painted a number of different views of new factory buildings during the 1930s. In this view Buckle used the ...
Watercolour depicting the Men's Recreation Ground, by H.N. Bradbear
‘[Where] industrial life today is concerned, Work and Play are not only closely related subjects, but one subject’.1
Bradbear produced watercolour views of both the men’s and girls' recreation grounds, ...
Watercolour Design for Cover of The Factory in a Garden
The Factory in a Garden was first published during the 1930s along with a companion publication Bournville Village Trust. Cadbury regularly commissioned leading graphic artists of the period, including ...
Watercolour of Cutting Pods, by Frank Newbould
The final group of images depicting cocoa plantations associated with Cadbury in the early twentieth century are by the artist Frank Newbould. During the 1920s and 1930s, Newbould was commissioned on ...
We are Brethren
‘We are Brethren’ token struck at Soho Mint, Handsworth, issued for use in Sierra Leone in 1814 which also commemorated the parlimentary abolition of the Slave Trade in 1807.
Reproduced courtesy ...
WEA Development Education Project - Eunice Campbell
My name is Eunice Campbell and I am 72 years old. I was born in Jamaica in the Parish of St Andrews in the district of Rockhall. I am of Caribbean origin and came to England in 1960, I even remember ...
White Cotton Cap worn by a Cadbury's Employee
This white cap is one of a number of items donated by Amelia Drew, an employee at Cadbury’s Bournville Works during the early twentieth century. This particular cap dates from 1941 and, therefore, it ...
William Mills (1856-1932)
Although William Mills is famous as the Birmingham inventor and engineer who developed the hand grenade familiarly known to First World War British soldiers as the 'Mills Bomb', he was born in Sunderland ...
Win the War Day
This photograph of workers from Kynoch Limited in a tableau was taken for ‘Win the War Day’ on 21 September 1918. The group includes a black woman.
Kynoch & Co. opened a factory to manufacture ammunition ...