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 Factory Girls Dancing in Bournville Grounds
This watercolour of girls participating in open-air dancing was taken from a photograph dated 1921. The watercolour was an exact copy of the photograph. Both images are illustrative of gender segregation ...
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 ...
Weoley Castle Rent Strike
Newscutting regarding the Weoley Castle women rent strikers, from the Evening Despatch.
Westminster Junior School, Handsworth
Photograph by Terry Lo.
'What I think of the Estate' by a resident, Weoley Castle
Anonymous letter illustrating the views of a tenant printed in the Weoley Castle Review on the estate and its facilities.
'What the MO Looks Like in a Surgical Ward', by H. Gardner
This is one of several caricatures published by wounded soldiers in the Edgbaston WW1 military hospital magazine that express deeply conflicted feelings towards the medical and administrative staff.
Illustration ...
When We Build Again (1943)
Section from the film 'When We Build Again', commissioned by the Cadburys firm and narrated by Dylan Thomas, discussing the various types of housing the working-class servicemen were returning to after ...
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 ...
Will made in Bombay in 1791
Will made by William Shepherd, merchant, of the house of Forbes, Shepherd & Co. on the island of Bombay, which left money to his wife and to his brother and sisters in Ayrshire.
Will Smith
Will Smith, photographed on Broad Street, Birmingham, 2005. From the collection "Muzik Kinda Sweet" by Pogus Caesar/OOM Gallery Archive.
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 ...
Woman and four children
Photograph of a woman in a headscarf with four small children in a slum interior. Taken in Winson Green, Birmingham by Nick Hedges.
Women Employees arriving at work
Cadbury’s archives hold a bound volume of Personal Reminiscences of Bridge Street and Bournville 1870-1929 by 63 men and women living at the time of the Bournville Jubilee 1929.1 Each account was hand ...
Women with Bicycles in Cannon Hill Park
Cycling was an activity that became increasingly popular with women during the early part of the twentieth century. Cycling in parks, however, was subject to restrictions.