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

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.

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.

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.

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 ).

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.

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.

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.

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.

As Bournville was founded by Quakers, a meeting house was built.

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

Bournville was a marked change from the poor living conditions of the urban environment.

Over the following years, more land was acquired and a model village was built for his workers which became known as Bournville.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Bryant Homes built a collection of upmarket and mostly detached houses in the west of Bournville during the 1970s.

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.

He is most notable for his design of Bournville, the model ' garden suburb ' built by Cadburys to house their chocolate-making workforce to the south of Birmingham.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 ".

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

* Bournville ( for Cadbury World )

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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