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.

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

* 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

Billingham was born in Birmingham and studied as a painter at Bournville College of Art and the University of Sunderland.

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.

Bournville College of Further Education have also taken part of the former factory site just off the Longbridge Lane / Bristol Road, over the road from the Technology Centre.

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

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.

Local work was plentiful, especially at the Austin Motor Works at Longbridge and, for the women, at Cadbury's chocolate factory in Bournville or the Kalamazoo paper factory in Longbridge, which had been moved to the area by Oliver Morland and F. Paul Impey in 1913 from central Birmingham.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bournville lies on the A4040, the ring road developed in the 1920s and served by the 11A and 11C Birmingham Outer Circle bus routes.

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.

In an initial land rental agreement with the Worcester and Birmingham Canal, the station sits above Bournville Lane, as the tracks are on an embankment, shared with the canal.

The main station entrance, via the ticket office on Bournville Lane, only provides access to the platforms via steep steps.

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.

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.

It also links some 15 commercial centres, and passes Cadbury's in Bournville, one of the world's largest chocolate factories.

There is a Serbian Orthodox church in Bournville, one of the few purpose-built Orthodox churches in the United Kingdom.

Cadbury's later becomes one of the largest chocolate manufacturers in the world and is still in production across the world today with a major production plant in Bournville.

The campus will incorporate Bournville College's current 3 sites into one and allow for 15, 000 + students, and relieve the old campuses for redevelopment.

Where Pershore Road joins Hazelwell Road and Bournville lane there is the Three Horseshoes public house which already existed in 1836, there is also a large Cooperative store and a Cooperative Funeral home these were originally the Ten Acres & Stirchley Street Coperative Soiciety which first opened in 1875.

Located next Stirchley Road railway station, which itself was opposite the canal, they renamed the estate Bournville and opened the Bournville factory the following year.

After the war, the Bournville factory was redeveloped and mass production began in earnest.

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

The exception proved the rule: even greenfield factory sites such as Bournville, founded in a rural setting, developed its own housing and profited from convenient communications systems.

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.

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.

At the Bournville factory in Birmingham, in the UK, they are manufactured at a rate of 1. 5 million per day.

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

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.

There, he found inspiration in Bournville, the garden town which the Cadbury family ( owners of the chocolate factory ) had built for their workers.

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.