Bronze bust at Friends meeting house, Bournville

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

Bournville College is relocating to Longbridge on the former site of the MG Rover works and is one of the first to regenerate the former factory.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Special features include the Boulton and Watt collection, the Bournville Village Trust Archive, the Charles Parker Archive, the British Institute of Organ Studies archive and the Railway and Canal Historical Society Library.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

* Bournville ( for Cadbury World )

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.

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.