The model village and its cottages : $b BournvilleHarvey, William Alexander
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The model village and its cottages : $b Bournville
Harvey, William Alexander
Architecture -- England -- Bournville (Birmingham); Architecture, Domestic; Cottages; Working class -- Dwellings
The Trustees have power to make arrangements with railways and
other companies for cheap means of transit. They may lease,
underlet, or sell land, or develop it and prepare it for
building, give land, or erect buildings for places of worship,
hospitals, schools, technical institutes, libraries, gymnasiums,
laundries, baths, &c. Occupying a central position in the village are
already the Bournville Meeting House (see Plates X. and XI.), the
Ruskin Hall, an institute founded in 1903, and including library,
reading-room, lecture hall, class rooms (see Plate IX.), and the
schools described later. Ample open spaces have been reserved in
various parts of the village. These include the Village Green; The
Triangle (a plot of land with lawn, flower beds, and shrubbery,
intersected by public paths—see Plate II.); Camp Wood (an undulating
woodland, thick with old forest-trees); children’s playgrounds and
lawns, with swings, bars, &c.; allotment gardens; youths’ and girls’
gardens (consisting of a number of small plots rented and cultivated
by boys and girls, in connection with which gardening classes are
held), &c. A large area of land, through which flows the Bourn
stream, has also been reserved for laying out as a public park.
Adjacent to the Estate, though not part of it, are two extensive and
well-wooded recreation grounds belonging to Messrs. Cadbury, which
are put at the disposal of their men and women employees; those for
the former including open-air swimming baths, which may be used
during stipulated hours by the tenants of the Estate houses. These
recreation grounds separate the works buildings from the village
itself, and in the event of the factory ceasing to exist, the Trust
deed provides that they be handed over to the District Council for
use as a public park. Nearly all the old trees and woodland on the
Estate have been preserved, and new trees planted in many parts.
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