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

The National Cycle Network route five passes near Bournville ( map ) towards Hurst Street in the City Centre.

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.

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.

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.

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 ".

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 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

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

Existing facilities at the Gosta Green and Bournville Campuses will be moved to the new facilities as the university seeks to reduce the number of campuses it occupies.

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.

The packing room at Bournville, circa 1903.

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.

* The Food of the Gods-the manufacture chapter provides an overview of the Cadbury's Bournville operation at the turn of the 20th century — from Project Gutenberg

Born in Bournville, Tylor learned to play chess at age seven.

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

Bronze bust at Friends meeting house, 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.

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.

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

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.

Cadbury's objectives in Bournville were the construction of decent quality homes at prices affordable to industrial workers.

Houses at 10-12 Sycamore Road, Bournville, are typical.

From 2006 onwards a section of the Lightmoor development at Milton Keynes was led by the Trust, recognising the longevity of the social and aesthetic principles demonstrated at Bournville and in other English garden suburbs.

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

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.

The settlement follows the tradition of establishing ' model ' towns set by Victorian philanthropists at places such as New Lanark and Saltaire and continued in towns such as Bournville and Port Sunlight.

The International Project Space at Bournville hosts international art exhibitions and residencies.