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Cadbury's Bournville Factory

My sister in law Margaret worked at Cadburys and she sais that after a while you got so sick of being able to eat the chocolate that you didn't bother.

The staff could also buy misshapes at a really low price so my kids loved Auntie Margaret.
 
Cadbury

When we were at school (Upper TH. St.) we used to love doing the topic about cocoa. You could send off for a free 'pack' of information. When it came it had a cocoa pod, which had lots of beans inside. But best of all, the teacher gave everyone a free box of miniature bars of chocolate. I used to love to melt mine slowly, savouring that scrummy flavour! Chocolate doesn't seem to taste the same anymore.
 
Your right chocolate dosen't taste the same, even flakes don't flake anymore, I used to love saving all the bits in the bottom of the packet and then tapping all the bits into my mouth at the end of it.
 
cadbury

While i was at school in early 50s we were taken around Cadburys to see if we would like to work there when we left school. The visit was the highlight of our day, and a chance to skive off school work. We were allowed to eat some choccies on the walk round and we were given a bag of mishapes at the end of the visit. Cadbury was a good employer at that time, with its own medical centre and sports area.
 
Yes, I also went round Cadburys on a school visit in the early 50's. They had a small cinema where we went first to see a film about where the cocoa beans grow, etc. Then we went into the factory to see the chocolates being made. The strong smell of the cocoa beans put me off chocolate for about two years!! My best friend's dad used to work there and I remember whenever I went round to her house there were drawers full of misshapes. I soon recovered from my dislike for chocolate, and I think that Cadburys is the best chocolate in the world.
 
Sick of Chocolate

I suppose too much of a good thing isn't appreciated!!!! but how do you all react to chocolate these days?
 
How do I react to chocolates these days Anne - My husband buys me a box of chocolates about every two weeks - But then I only pick out the hard ones and leave him to eat the soft centres - just to sweet for me!
 
Cadbury's

It is nice looking at all these posts? but does anyone notice that Cadbury's is the last of all the world famous firms that we have left in Brum.B.S.A. gone!,Lucas's,gone!,Austin,gone!,H.P.,gone!,G.E.C.,gone!,and all the rest.Where is it going to end.If all the manufacturing goes,where will we all get the money to spend on all the new service industries.Chad Valley,gone.Canning's,gone,Ansell's,gone!,I.C.I.,I.M.I.,.In my time as a driver I used to go to all these places to take goods to the docks for export but now it is the other way round.Every time you pick something up in the shops it says made in China or any other country in the world.Take your pick! I have an affinity for Birmingham City Transport and tried to find out from Ian Allen's shop in town when they were going to get a model of the ultimate bus which is called the Birmingham City Standard,which to me is and was the best looking bus of all time and I was told that the people who make them were going to China to sort it out.WHAT???We can't even make those here now!!! !.
 
Queen's Visit 1955

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visit Bourneville, 3rd November 1955. On behalf of the Bourneville community, Doris Cooke of Cadbury's Women's Council, present a specially designed casket.
 
Cadburys clanger

In the early sixties my neighbour worked for Schweppes at Castle Bromwich when they were taken over by Cadburys she told me that Cadbury were most upset when they reailsed they had not done their homework properly. Here was a Quaker family, opposed to alcohol (no pubs in Bournville) buying what they thought was a soft drinks company. Schweppes were the importers and bottlers of Martini
 
Clanger

I seem to remember they came up with some waffle about it being an associate company and not really part of the Cadbury group.
The Quakers had a lot of influence in the running of Birmingham, when I left in 1965 I think the six day licence was still in force, you could not play live music in a pub on a Sunday, we used to go to Sutton Coldfield, certain films could not be shown on a Sunday.
Was there not a recent rumpus when Tesco applied for an off licence on the borders of Bourneville?

It went from bad to worse for me when in1965 I moved to Guernsey,there you can't drink or buy petrol on Sunday
 
George, I'm with Williams on this one, Sunday's nowadays are just as bad for traffic as any other day, and I'm definitely against Sunday trading. I can remember when I was young it was frowned upon to hang your washing out on Sundays, I wouldn't go that far, but I think we all need a day when things are taken at a gentler pace.
 
Sundays

But these same people expect to be fed on a Sunday when on holiday and travel on a Sunday. I had to work on a Sunday when I was with an airline and when I was a guest house proprietor. You can't have it both ways.
 
Cadbury's Bourneville

I've been told the only place you can buy an alcoholic drink in Bournville is in Cadbury's social club. I don't know how true that is but hows that for hypocrisy.

Cheers,

pmc1947 (Phil).
 
Drinks at Cadburys Social Club

Phil
You are probably right about the social club drinking. The social club is listed on several web sites as a venue for musical events, I can't imagine it being a teetotal venue.

George
 
My husbands family all worked for Cadbury's, his mom a box maker his aunt in wages and his dad was the family chauffeur.

Here are one or two photos, I will post more. We have a thunder storm and I have to turn off the computer before we have a power cut which we nearly always do.

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Bournville College - Bournville Junior School - Bournville Park
The power cut beat me too it, although only brief.

Here is my husbands parents home 3 Linden Road. We took this in 2005. Things have changed around by the green and Cadbury's. We used to go to the Maypole dancing on the cricket pitch every year and as you know there was or maybe still is a swimming pool there.
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I worked in Sales Marketing from 1969 after we were married and moved to Northfield until our son was born in 1972. It was a nice place to work although still very much in the past at that time, things started to change while I was there. Lunch times were a pleasure either n the gardens or down on Bournville Green with my friend. The Carillon was one of my favourite places.View attachment 8878
 
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Cadburys Tasmania

Do you all know that Hobart in Tasmania has a Cadburys Estate and factory?

In around 1967 I boarded with a lady (a widow and her son) who lived "on Cadbury Estate" at Claremont in Hobart Tasmania, Australia.
So there you go another link with Brumm.

Cadbury factory is still there attracting many tourists and it's about 20 minutes drive from where I live.

Cheers
Kate
 
Multi Cadbury Estates

Well what a bonus! Are there any other Cadbury's anywhere in the world I wonder. Thanks for that info. I'll track it down on the net and read with interest. Thanks Kate.
Do you miss Brum?
My hubby and I are visiting my big sister and husband and family in Adelaide at Christmas. At first she was awfully homesick, but has now become very settled especially as 5 of her children and their families have made the move, and the other two are making plans. She's been there for 21 years now.
I will be taking her the book "Memories of West Bromwich" and also ensuring she at last sets herself up with a computer so that she can read and contribute to websites like this plus all the other bonus's. She's such a forwards person but she still prefers snail mail! Amazing.
 
Cadbury's Galore

Anymore? Chocoholics.
Does anyone collect the Cadbury Tins. Some packages never cange do they?
I'll start off with the ROSES.
 
Hi Anne: Don't have any old Cadbury tins but I do remember some of them from years ago. I do have a recent Cadbury's biscuit tin I bought last Christmas. The contents were nice but there wasn't enough of the biscuits in the tin I thought.

Don't get me going on the subject of the present day quality of well known brands of British biscuits.:(
 
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