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Postcard 1930s RPPC Bournville Lane & The Green Bournville England Cadbury
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RPPC · 1932

Postcard 1930s RPPC Bournville Lane & The Green Bournville England Cadbury

Bournville, Birmingham, England, UK1932RPPCGood

Two sepia real-photo postcards offer a quiet, dappled glimpse of Bournville — the model village near Birmingham, England, that the Cadbury chocolate family built as a social utopia for their workers beginning in 1879: the upper card captures a motor car easing along Bournville Lane past a handsome Arts-and-Crafts terrace raised on a brick retaining wall, while the lower shows The Green with its great canopy of bare-limbed trees sheltering a group of figures gathered at what appears to be a bus shelter or tram stop, a double-decker vehicle just visible through the branches. George Cadbury's radical vision — decent housing, green spaces, no public houses — influenced town planning worldwide, and these postcards document the village at a moment when the automobile and the motor-bus were beginning to share roads still very much designed for pedestrians. The reference numbers H.6614 and H.6618 suggest sequential production from the same publisher's run, and the photographic style and vehicle types are consistent with the late 1920s to mid-1930s.

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