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 ...
Caerynwch Residential Nursery, Dolgellau, Gwynedd
In 1941, attempts had been made to evacuate many of the children from the cottage homes to the countryside. Approximately 40 of the nursery-age children from Erdington Cottage Homes had already been sent ...
Calendar illustrated by Hans Schwarz showing an internment camp
This drawing looks like an internment camp. It is unclear whether it relates to German concentration camps or British internment camps, or when exactly it was drawn. Like many other refugees Hans was ...
Cannon Hill Park Open-Air Swimming Pool
There were open-air swimming pools at Cannon Hill Park, and at Victoria Park, Small Heath. The pool at Cannon Hill Park was opened at the same time as the park, in September 1873, while the pool at Victoria ...
Cannon Hill Park postcard
This scene shows people of all ages enjoying the green space that Cannon Hill Park provided. The boy in the postcard has his bicycle propped against the tree, hinting at the restrictions on cycling in ...
Caravans in Upper Ryland Road
Birmingham’s history is very much a history of migration. Workers from across the region and beyond flocked here to find work in a booming industrial sector during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. ...
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 ...
Child Guidance Clinic Medical Director’s Report
Children and childhood in the early decades of the 20th century gained the attention of new professionals who were trained in psychology.
Child Guidance clinics were founded in the 1930s to treat ...
Child in basement, Liverpool 8 by Nick Hedges
Children’s health was often badly affected by the cold, damp spaces in which they lived. Bronchitis, asthma, and influenza were rife. Illness, and a lack of sleep caused by overcrowding, meant that children ...
Child looking out of window
Back-to-back and Tunnel-back Slum properties, Hockley, Birmingham.