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Cadbury's Bournville Factory

NoddKD said:
They don't look very happy.
Maybe they were having school dinners?

NoddKD
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must admit although it was in more modern times when i needed to have school dinners i loved them...and the puddings were good as well..i would often go up for seconds so well done farm st school..

lyn
 
Astoness said:
must admit although it was in more modern times when i needed to have school dinners i loved them...and the puddings were good as well..i would often go up for seconds so well done farm st school..

lyn
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I have to agree with you Lyn.
I attended four Birmingham schools and always enjoyed the dinners.
One exception was worm (spaghetti) bolonese. Hated that.
I particularly enjoyed the bread rolls that were served with summer salads at Farm Street School.

NoddKD
 
I think there are far too many employees in the canteen for one sitting and perhaps it was a gathering of all staff together for the purpose of taking the photo. it seems to be all women, (except a very few who could be men, but maybe women with very short hair). Some are very young girls. And at least we know working conditions were good for these ladies.
 
There was no concert hall then, so the canteen would have been the best place to make announcements to as many staff as possible. At the time theatrical productions and pageants were done outside , often in the girl's grounds.
 
Kate said:
CADBURYS TASMANIA

Further to Cadbury being in Hobart Tasmania. When I was in my early twenties I boarded with a widow whose husband was an employee of Cadbury. Employees at his level apparently were supplied with a house (or rented from the company) on what was called "Cadbury Estate". I fell out of favour with her because I came home late and didn't wake up in the mornings to get to work! Honestly I'm a changed person these days! :lol: PS - I never got any chockies either.
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I visited Hobart in 2004 and tried some of the locally-produced Cadbury chocolate. I judged it to have a different taste from the Birmingham variety. I prefer our Brummy taste, but I'm sure Tassies enjoy their own home-grown Cadbury's taste.
 
JLB said:
I visited Hobart in 2004 and tried some of the locally-produced Cadbury chocolate. I judged it to have a different taste from the Birmingham variety. I prefer our Brummy taste, but I'm sure Tassies enjoy their own home-grown Cadbury's taste.
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Yes, not only are the ingredient's different from place to place but tastes are a little different wherever you go!
 
Are there transcriptions of the memorials anywhere?

Just added the General Office memorial to the IWM War Memorial Register But it is a poor quality image and I cannot read most of the names.

I never ceased to be amazed at how people can take a picture of a memorial with a handful of names and none (or few) are readable. I regularly take pictures of memorials with many hundred of names and every single one is readable!
 
JMB said:
Are there transcriptions of the memorials anywhere?

Just added the General Office memorial to the IWM War Memorial Register But it is a poor quality image and I cannot read most of the names.

I never ceased to be amazed at how people can take a picture of a memorial with a handful of names and none (or few) are readable. I regularly take pictures of memorials with many hundred of names and every single one is readable!
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Unfortunately that is what many people, that a picture of the object not the subject. And with phone cameras & point shot cameras it is so easy to get right.
 
They ran following the line in the floor you can see on the front of the "engine", The light on the pole was continually flashing while moving to warn people .
 
mikejee said:
Here is a pieces showing an aerial view of the factory in 1979, and , above it, showing how factory expanded. From Bournville Reporter Sept.1979. Many other changes have occurred since then. Q Block (which made packaging), the very long block on the bottom right hand side, went many years ago, and is now a car park, and other buildings nearer Bournville Lane have also gone , partly replaced by Cadbury World

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Hi Mike, Im doing some research and the photo could be really useful, but I cannot seem to see it. Any chance of re-uploading it- I know it's a long time ago.

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Terry Pinto said:
Hi Mike, Im doing some research and the photo could be really useful, but I cannot seem to see it. Any chance of re-uploading it- I know it's a long time ago.
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Not sure why it disappeared, but have sharpened the photo and now reposted in the thread. May I enquire what your research is concerning? I am an old ex-emloyee and always interested in the subject
 
mikejee said:
Not sure why it disappeared, but have sharpened the photo and now reposted in the thread. May I enquire what your research is concerning? I am an old ex-emloyee and always interested in the subject
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Dear Mike, I was an architecture student in Birmingham Poly in the mid 80's to early 90s and am doing some research into how redundant brownfield sites in garden cities like Bournville can be sensitively reused to meet the housing crisis. The area I'm looking at is where the cycle sheds were on Franklin Way near Mary Vale Road, as I understand there were some larger building there in the 70's and I cannot find any photographic proof, hence hoping your photo may show them.
 
The photo is now on the original position. but have also tried to look at the area I think you are interested in . sharpened it the best I can. I remember the hut. Not sure now what it was used for. Possibly one of the clubs that Cadbury provided when it was a good company to work for producing good products

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Hi, all this talk of chocolate is making me hungry , back in the early’80s when I worked as a motorcycle courier one of my regular runs was from Cadbury in Birmingham to the Ind Coope factory in the Wirral to have new products such as biscuits and chocolate bars to be photographed for various adverts, and Cadburys had the vending machines located all the way down the corridors and you could help yourself to the chocolate bars etc for free, hence my leathers were usually a bit tight
 
Pete Elliott said:
Hi, all this talk of chocolate is making me hungry , back in the early’80s when I worked as a motorcycle courier one of my regular runs was from Cadbury in Birmingham to the Ind Coope factory in the Wirral to have new products such as biscuits and chocolate bars to be photographed for various adverts, and Cadburys had the vending machines located all the way down the corridors and you could help yourself to the chocolate bars etc for free, hence my leathers were usually a bit tight
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That's made me smile, the combination of Cadburys, Quakers who do not approve of alcohol, and Ind Coope ;)
 
A Sparks said:
That's made me smile, the combination of Cadburys, Quakers who do not approve of alcohol, and Ind Coope ;)
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I think it may have been Schweppes,Ind,Coope as I remember there was a statue of the “Babycham” hind and champagne glass on the reception desk in Wirral and a connection to Burton on Trent too , happy days
 
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