During World War II, parts of the Bournville factory were turned over to war work, producing milling machines and seats for fighter aircraft.

Some philanthropists had begun to provide housing in tenement blocks, while some factory owners built entire villages for their workers, such as Saltaire ( 1853 ), Bournville ( 1879 ), Port Sunlight ( 1888 ), Stewartby, and Silver End as late as 1925.

In an era of model villages such as Saltaire, Port Sunlight and Bournville, Woodlands, with extensive open spaces, many different designs of houses and overall living conditions superb for their time, possibly represents the height of the model village movement.

The canal locally was used by a declining number of companies and by the 1940s only two companies used it to any extent, Royal Worcester Porcelain for coal and Cadbury of Bournville for chocolate crumb.

Bournville () is a model village on the south side of Birmingham, England, best known for its connections with the Cadbury family and chocolate – including a dark chocolate bar branded " Bournville ".

It is also a ward within the council constituency of Selly Oak and home to the Bournville Centre for Visual Arts.

The Cadburys named the area ' Bournville ' after the Bourn Brook ( now known as The Bourn ); with ' ville ' being French for ' town '; this set Bournville apart from the local area ( some people mistakenly believe Bournville was originally known as Bournbrook-Bournbrook exists as a separate area to the north of Bournville ).

Cadbury's also built the Bournville indoor swimming baths on Bournville Lane ( separate buildings for ' girls ' and men ), the Valley pool boating lake and the picturesque cricket pitch adjacent to the factory site, that was made famous as the picture on boxes of Milk Tray chocolates throughout the 1950s and early 1960s.

Bournville Rest House was built to celebrate the Silver Wedding Anniversary of George and Elizabeth Cadbury, and was paid for by the employees of Cadbury Brothers Ltd.

As Bournville is a conservation area, another job of the Bournville Village Trust is to accept or reject plans for building extension and modification.

The 2001 Population Census found that 25, 462 people were living in Bournville with a population density of 4, 217 people per km² compared with 3, 649 people per km² for Birmingham.

Bournville is an ethnically diverse community although ethnic minorities represent 10. 1 % ( 2, 474 ) of the ward's population as opposed to 29. 6 % for Birmingham.

Although Bournville is most famous for its turn-of-the-20th century Cadbury style homes, a significant amount of more modern stock also exists in the area — not all of which was built by Cadbury's.

The Bournville Centre for Visual Arts, located at Ruskin Hall on Linden Road, has been part of the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design ( BIAD ) at Birmingham City University since 1988.

The northern reaches of Northfield fall within the Bournville model village and the southern housing estates were originally built by Austin Motors for their workforce.

A tributory of Griffin's Brook flows through Northfield's Victoria Common and parallel to Heath Road South on its way to Bournville although it is piped underground now for most of its route since the 1970s, surfacing only briefly to feed the pond near Hole Farm Road, then in Woodlands Park and next near the Valley Pool boating lake, after which it joins up with Griffin's Brook proper which is then renamed the Bourn Brook until it flows into the River Rea.

* Bournville School-Bournville School and sixth form centre is a coeducational, state comprehensive school, with Specialist Business and Enterprise College and Music College status, for students aged 11 – 19 years, located on Griffins Brook Lane, Bournville

It is also noteworthy that, because George Cadbury was a temperance Quaker, no public houses have ever been built in Bournville ; however, since the late 1940s, there has been a licensed members ' bar at Rowheath Pavilion.

In 1900, the Bournville Village Trust was set up to formally control the development of the estate, independently of George Cadbury or the Cadbury company.

Cadbury also named their brand of malted drinks Bournvita after Bournville.

Dame Elizabeth Cadbury has a secondary school and sixth form named after her in Bournville.

The Bournville Friends Meeting House is located on Linden Road, and features a bust of George Cadbury by Francis Wood, installed in 1924.

A major user of the canal was the Cadbury chocolate factories at Bournville and Blackpole, Worcester.

For example, Bournville model village had no pubs, because Cadbury abjured alcohol.

As a social experiment it is similar to the model of the better-known Bournville company town founded by the Cadbury family near Birmingham, England, however it predates this development by more than 30 years.

Bournville ( 1895 ) near Birmingham, was established by the Cadbury brothers, George and Richard.

George Cadbury, a Quaker, preached Christian values such as respectability, thrift and sobriety and sought to unify the Bournville community through rituals such as gift giving between employer and employee.

Bournville ’ s gardens, parks, tree-lined streets, its sense of spaciousness and country setting enhanced its aesthetic appeal and demonstrated George Cadbury ’ s endeavour to provide workers with a healthy, beautiful and well-ventilated environment.

They are driven to various places to advertise the eggs but are based mainly at the Cadbury factory in Bournville.

Birmingham has several colleges of further education funded primarily by the Learning and Skills Council, including City College, Josiah Mason College, Cadbury College, Queen Alexandra College, Bournville College, and Birmingham Metropolitan College.

1900: Bournville Village Trust is founded by George Cadbury, this is to set many improvements and high standards of living and leisure pastimes for factory workers across Britain.

Born into an artistic family, Harvey studied architecture at the Municipal School of Art in Birmingham, and was appointed by George Cadbury to work on houses in Bournville in 1895 aged just 20.

Famous food brands that originated in Birmingham include Typhoo tea, Bird's Custard, Blue Bird Toffee, Bournville cocoa, Cadbury chocolate and HP Sauce.

After graduating, Flello worked for a short time at Cadbury in Bournville before joining the Inland Revenue.

The local authority built several homes around Bournville before and after the Second World War.

The extensive housebuilding continued before and after the Second World War through extensions to the Bournville Model Village and several estates of temporary Prefab housing in West Heath, although new house provision has slowed down to a much less dramatic rate since the 1970s.

The Cadbury plc chocolate factory is still adjacent to the station, reflected in the fact that Bournville station is partly painted in Cadbury purple, and station signs include the famous Cadbury logo, a reflection of the station providing ideal access for Cadbury World.

As in most other Brythonic areas, Iron Age hill forts, such as Cadbury Castle, were refortified for the use of chieftains or kings.

One notable business in the city is the Cadbury chocolate factory which manufactures most of the Cadbury's chocolate for the Southern Hemisphere.

On May 3, 2006, the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, Cadbury Schweppes, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and the American Beverage Association announced new School Beverage Guidelines that will voluntarily remove high-calorie soft drinks from all U. S. schools.

Cadbury subsequently built new factories and had an increasing demand for their products.

Snapple, Mistic and Stewart's ( formerly Cable Car Beverage ) were sold by Triarc to Cadbury Schweppes in 2000 for $ 1. 45 billion.

In 2008 Monkhill Confectionery, the Own Label trading division of Cadbury Trebor Bassett was sold to Tangerine Confectionery for £ 58million cash.

On 7 September 2009 Kraft Foods made a £ 10. 2 billion ( US $ 16. 2 billion ) indicative takeover bid for Cadbury.

Kraft launched a formal, hostile bid for Cadbury valuing the firm at £ 9. 8 billion on 9 November 2009. Business Secretary Peter Mandelson warned Kraft not to try to " make a quick buck " from the acquisition of Cadbury.

On 19 January 2010, it was announced that Cadbury and Kraft Foods had reached a deal and that Kraft would purchase Cadbury for £ 8. 40 per share, valuing Cadbury at £ 11. 5bn ( US $ 18. 9bn ).

* Cookie Bear ( New Zealand ) was a character developed for advertising New Zealand company Cadbury Schweppes Hudson's biscuits.

* Cadbury Castle hill fort, referred to as a location for Camelot by John Leland in 1542.

His work attracted the attention of Henry Cadbury the part owner of The London Star and he moved to London in 1919 and worked for them until 1927 before moving to The Evening Standard.

A £ 42 million refurbishment of the 16-storey tower was completed in 2009 and it now houses the Colleges of Social Sciences and the Cadbury Research Library, the new home for the University's Special Collections.

Their Cadbury factory at Sheffield in South Yorkshire has been selected to manufacture Oreos in the UK for the first time.

On completion of his studies in political science and international relations, he taught and held administrative offices in various universities: teaching assistant and research associate, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts ( 1960 – 62 ); visiting lecturer, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont ( summer 1962 ); assistant professor, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, ( fall 1962 ); lecturer / senior lecturer, University of Ibadan, where he became professor ( 1965 – 88 ), head of department ( 1965 – 72 ), and dean of the Faculty of the Social Sciences ( 1966 – 68 ); Cadbury Visiting Professorial Fellow, University of Birmingham Center for West African Studies, Birmingham, UK ( 1972 – 73 ); founding vice chancellor, University of Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria ( 1975 – 79 ); visiting professor and head of department ; dean, Faculty of Social Sciences and Director of the Center for Development Studies ; and member of the Governing Council, all of the University of Cross River State, Uyo, Nigeria ( 1984 – 86 ).

In 2006 Cadbury plc decided to concentrate on the chocolate business and sought buyers for its soda business.

By choice there followed a succession of jobs ' of no special consequence and with no connection from one to the next ', which she held briefly, and which began with work as an assistant mistress at Silchester House, a girls ' boarding school in Taplow in the Thames valley, and included being a sceretary ; a reader for the elderly Dame Elizabeth Cadbury ; and the proprietor of an office in Victoria Street, London, for typing and secretarial work.

As in other Brythonic areas, Iron Age hillforts, such as Cadbury Castle, were refortified in Post-Roman times for the use of chieftains or kings, and other high-status settlements such as Tintagel seem to have been reconstructed during the period.

His redhead girlfriend Gloria was voiced by Nancy Cartwright ( who does the voice for Bart Simpson ) with the voice talents of Dick Beals as Reggie Van Dough, William Callaway as Professor Keanbean, Joan Gerber as Irona and Regina Rich, Christian Hoff as Freckles and Pee-Wee, Stanley Jones as Cadbury and Mr. Rich, and Frank Welker as Dollar.

That same year, he performed the theme song for the opening credits of Season 4 of The Cosby Show, as well as the music for a Cadbury chocolate commercial.