‘No child can resist’, Picture Post
Advertisers used images of children to catch the viewer’s eye. As families became more affluent they also targeted children as consumers. These adverts for Birmingham made ‘Bird’s Custard’ represent children ...
Advertisement for Holder's Ales, 1891
The title pages from Edgbastonia carried advertisements across the top. This one is for Holder's Ales, owned by Sir John Holder of Moor Green, Moseley. The Brewery was based in Nova Scotia Street.
Advertisements in Edgbastonia Magazine
This page from Edgbastonia offers clothing from head to toe: milliners Emilie Maison Francaise, ladies tailor Robert Speerli and Hodges bootmakers.
Cadbury advertisement: This is Bournville
This advertisement is contained within a bound volume of press pulls produced between 1910 and 1913. This is Bournville was published in November 1910. The image represented a carefully selected view ...
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 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, ...
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 ...
Edgbastonia Title Page, 1881
‘The contents will be of local interest, or local production, and […] they shall be of a healthy moral tone, and be altogether non-political and unsectarian’. So says the editor of Edgbastonia in May ...
Letter from Eliezer Edwards to Hugh Nettlefold
In November 1884, a lengthy article about the Botanical Gardens appeared in Edgbastonia magazine. This letter illuminates the background to the publication of that article.
Correspondence about the ...
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 ...
Refreshment Tariff, Lisseter and Miller
Lisseter and Miller had been asked to quote for the supply of catering for the café in the Botanical Gardens. This is their proposed price list. A note at the top says 'approved'.
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 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 ...
Women's Hat
By the beginning of the First World War, women’s hats had assumed gigantic proportions. The corsets fashionable at the time tended to push the body forward at the bust and out at the rear; a large hat ...