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Behind the visitor centre, there is the business end of the Cadbury factory at Bournville.
©Val Vannet
©Ruth Sharville
Part of the planned suburb next to Cadbury's factory.
©Jonathan Billinger
Maple Road, Bournville, just next to the garden centre.
©Roy Hughes
Opposite Stocks Wood.
©Phil Champion
©Lambert
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Tudor-themed museum in the Bournville suburb.
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:0.1km<br/>Selly Manor was moved to its current location in Bournville by George Cadbury. The house is now a museum.
©Phil Champion
Dist:0.1km<br/>One of the oldest buildings in Birmingham. From the Selly Manor website http://www.bvt.org.uk/sellymanor/ : Selly Manor dates back to the 1300s. Court rolls of 1327 first mention it as Bournbrook’s manor house, home to local tax collectors the Jouette family. It was built by making a strong frame of oak beams fixed together with mortice and tenon joints. These were secured with pegs, and the gaps packed with a mixture of wood, earth, dung and straw, known as wattle and daub, in the frame. By the turn of the 20th century, the Manor had been divided into three separate homes, known as Rookery Cottages, and fallen into disrepair. In 1907, busy establishing his vision of a Bournville village, local chocolate maker and philanthropist, George Cadbury, saved it from demolition, securing its future. He employed the architect William Alexander Harvey to oversee its dismantling and moving, to Bournville Green, one mile away. Each beam was carefully marked, and meticulous plans drawn to ensure the building would be reassembled correctly. Completed in 1916, at a cost of over £6000 – equivalent to £250,000 today – Selly Manor opened as a museum the following year.
©Phil Champion
Dist:0.1km<br/>One of Birmingham's oldest building, now a museum. From the Selly Manor website http://www.bvt.org.uk/sellymanor/ : Selly Manor dates back to the 1300s. Court rolls of 1327 first mention it as Bournbrook’s manor house, home to local tax collectors the Jouette family. It was built by making a strong frame of oak beams fixed together with mortice and tenon joints. These were secured with pegs, and the gaps packed with a mixture of wood, earth, dung and straw, known as wattle and daub, in the frame. By the turn of the 20th century, the Manor had been divided into three separate homes, known as Rookery Cottages, and fallen into disrepair. In 1907, busy establishing his vision of a Bournville village, local chocolate maker and philanthropist, George Cadbury, saved it from demolition, securing its future. He employed the architect William Alexander Harvey to oversee its dismantling and moving, to Bournville Green, one mile away. Each beam was carefully marked, and meticulous plans drawn to ensure the building would be reassembled correctly. Completed in 1916, at a cost of over £6000 – equivalent to £250,000 today – Selly Manor opened as a museum the following year.
©Phil Champion
Dist:0.1km<br/>From the Selly Manor website http://www.bvt.org.uk/sellymanor/ : Selly Manor dates back to the 1300s. Court rolls of 1327 first mention it as Bournbrook’s manor house, home to local tax collectors the Jouette family. It was built by making a strong frame of oak beams fixed together with mortice and tenon joints. These were secured with pegs, and the gaps packed with a mixture of wood, earth, dung and straw, known as wattle and daub, in the frame. By the turn of the 20th century, the Manor had been divided into three separate homes, known as Rookery Cottages, and fallen into disrepair. In 1907, busy establishing his vision of a Bournville village, local chocolate maker and philanthropist, George Cadbury, saved it from demolition, securing its future. He employed the architect William Alexander Harvey to oversee its dismantling and moving, to Bournville Green, one mile away. Each beam was carefully marked, and meticulous plans drawn to ensure the building would be reassembled correctly. Completed in 1916, at a cost of over £6000 – equivalent to £250,000 today – Selly Manor opened as a museum the following year.
©Phil Champion
Dist:0.1km<br/>Selly Manor, centre right, stood on a site in Bournbrook Road until its dilapidated condition was noticed and George Cadbury had it moved to its present site in 1912. Minworth Greaves, centre left, was also moved here from elsewhere. The site was opened to the public in 1917 and now houses a museum which is worth a visit to gain some idea of what living conditions were like in past ages.
©Martin Richard Phelan
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