Primary schools in the area include Bournville Junior School, Bournville Infant School and St Francis Primary School.

Bournville School is a secondary school in the Birmingham Local Education Authority area.

Schools include Bournville School and St Mary's CofE Primary School.

Born in Birmingham, England, he later went straight from Bournville Boys Technical School, later Bournville Grammar-Technical School for Boys, where he had appeared in many school dramatic productions including playing Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, with the assistance of a grant from the City of Birmingham.

BIAD includes the Bournville Centre for Visual Arts, the Birmingham School of Art and the School of Jewellery ( in the Jewellery Quarter ), which highlights the importance of jewellery manufacture in the city.

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.

* the Bournville Junior School ( 1902-5 ),

He attended Bournville Junior and Infant schools before going to King's Norton Boy's School.

There are also smaller centres located in: Bournville ( Centre for Visual Arts, foundation awards and evening classes ) in the suburbs south of the city centre ; Margaret Street ( former Birmingham School of Art ) ( Fine Art ) in the city centre next to Birmingham Central Library and Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery ; and Vittoria Street ( School of Jewellery ) in the city's Jewellery Quarter.

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

Bournville is served by Bournville College of Further Education, which features a sixth form college and higher education programmes.

Residential areas outside the town centre include the Oldmixon, Coronation, and Bournville housing estates, built in the mid to late 20th century.

Retail stores will account for over 150, 000 sq ft. An Austin Memorial Centre, The River Rea being bought back to the surface as a focal point in the centre of a newly formed 2 acre park called Austin Park, surrounded by the Bournville College campus and the new retail outlets and supermarket.

This is likely to result in the demolition of the former MG Rover training and learning development centre, currently held by Bournville College as a temporary construction campus.

The Society's patron is Her Majesty the Queen ; Lord Jordan of Bournville became RoSPA's president in 2008.

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.

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.

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 dark chocolate Bournville Plain is now manufactured in France and sold in the UK.

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.

Serco Integrated Services is the second largest employer in Bournville, employing approximately 1, 800 people.

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.

Bournville is served by Bournville railway station on the Cross-City Line to Birmingham New Street, Lichfield and Redditch.

While other suburban Birmingham railway stations feature the yellow and green corporate livery of Centro, Bournville railway station is instead painted in Cadbury's purple.

Christian churches in Bournville include St Francis of Assisi Church which is also the Anglican parish church.

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

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.

Their styling owed much to the English garden suburb tradition ( seen at Bournville, Letchworth, Saltaire, Port Sunlight and Welwyn Garden City ) and garden areas and front boundaries were generally more varied than on contemporary estates within military bases where state ownership endured over a longer period.

Laid out on the principles set out by Cadbury at Bournville, and developed mainly between 1865 and 1870, a public school was built with accommodation for 327 children.

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.

In 1988, the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design ( BIAD ) was established from the merging of the polytechnic's Faculty of Art and Design with Bournville College of Art.

Burnt mound sites such as that discovered in Bournville also show evidence of wider settlements, with clearances in the woodland and grazing animals.

Originally the area that was to become Bournville consisted of a few scattered farmsteads and cottages, linked by winding country lanes, with the only visual highlight being the Georgian built Bournbrook Hall.

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 ).

The Cadburys were particularly concerned with the health and fitness of their workforce, incorporating park and recreation areas into the Bournville village plans and encouraging swimming, walking and indeed all forms of outdoor sports.

Now containing 7, 800 homes on 1, 000 acres ( 4 km² ) of land with 100 acres ( 0. 4 km² ) of parks and open spaces, Bournville remains a popular residential area of Birmingham.

Bournville has adopted a Ward Support Officer with the current holder of the title being Karen Stevens.

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.

Kings Norton, along with many of the small towns near Birmingham, expanded considerably in the 19th century with a railway link into Birmingham passing by the new Bournville factory just to the north.

Although many prominent examples of company towns portray their founders as " capitalists with a conscience ", for example George Cadbury's Bournville, if viewed cynically the company town was often an economically viable ploy to attract and retain workers.

The creation of model company towns was particularly evident in Britain during the latter half of the nineteenth century with the creation of Saltaire, Bournville, Port Sunlight, Creswell and New Earswick, and coincided with the housing reform movement which emphasised the improvement of housing for the working class.

Bournville illustrated how, towards the end of the nineteenth century, low-density development was being emphasised along with the provision of open air, space and sunlight.

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.