BWM

BWM

Redhawk Logistica

36 IMAGES FROM BOURNVILLE WORKS MAGAZINE CURATED BY REDHAWK LOGISTICA

CONTENTS 4 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41

Introduction 100 miles in 58 hours on foot? (1968) Conference at Pershore Horticulture College (1968) American and Sikh Boy Scouts (1957) An evening session of Slimnastics (1954) Autographed log from Czechoslovakia (1968) Lucky Strike (1957) Signing the visitors’ book (1956) Bumper Cars at the Tulip Festival (1968) A pick and shovel job (1967) Bournville Youth Club’s mixed winter sports party (1957) Thrice blessed (1956) Face lift for the Dormobile (1968) Snap happy (1958) Look what I’ve grown(1968) Major Suggestion Award winner (1968) Merriment at Marlbrook (1959) Mrs L Sewell O.B.E at the BGASC conference (1968) Mrs Laurence Cadbury at home (1959) Star of the East (1959) Climbing mountains the easy way (1959) Nightmen’s Wednesday XI at Rowheath (1968) Deciding on a desk (1966) Two competitors finishing the senior 220 yards (1958) King’s Norton (Junior) Schools’ Sports awards (1966) Siamese Kittens feature in a display in Crush Hall (1957) Bournville will need more skilled men (1963) Sooner or later every camper has to peel the spuds! (1957) Stay young - play netball (1966) Managing their own affairs (1958) Scholarship holders visit Stonehenge (1958) Top Table at the BGASC conference (1968) Welcome to Miss Aggrey-Fynn (1956) Young men from Bournville with Shire Horses (1959) I’m a long way from home (1961) BGASC girls on the Spanish Ferry (1964) Men at work (1965) 3

INTRODUCTION This publication features photographs from the 1950’s and 1960’s, selected from Bournville Works Magazine, a monthly publication about life at Cadbury, the famous chocolate and confectionary company based in Bournville in south Birmingham. The 36 pictures and their captions were displayed in an exhibition curated by Redhawk Logistica at Bournville College in 2014 to mark its centenary, as part of Longbridge Public Art Project by WERK. Most of the photographs in Bournville Works Magazine are staged compositions and Redhawk Logistica deliberately moved away from these and gravitated towards ‘snapshots’ that capture less formal moments. The original black-and-white photographs had a colour cast added to them and text from the magazine was edited and sometimes annotated to create the captions.

Together, the images and texts respond to the Cadbury legacy and offer insights into working life in mid-twentieth-century Bournville.

Originally established in 1913 to cater for the education of the workforce, Bournville College moved in 2011 to a new building on part of the site of the old Austin Rover car factory in Longbridge. Two global brands that grew up together on the south side of Birmingham have become bedfellows, although it is said that the Bournville and Austin factories were always linked via the romantic attachments of their respective workers.

Into this mix of chocolate and car production comes the allusion to BMW – the German car company that bought Rover Group in 1994, seen by many to be the bogey man that spoiled the party – in the title of this exhibition and publication.

The modernity and new social relations that eventually burst the bubble of Bournville, a family business with an extended family of workers, is perhaps symbolised by the bear in the picture of Mrs Laurence Cadbury arranging flowers, looming over her shoulder with claws drawn, ready to pounce.

Many of the images show what people did outside of their work at the chocolate factory and how the company supported their development – both in formal education and in more general ‘betterment’. As a company with a progressive nature, Cadbury pioneered Day Release, in which, as a condition of employment, young employees took half a day a week off work to study (with compensation), with another half day on offer.

There was a menu of voluntary courses for different abilities and levels of commitment. Informal courses during weekends or fortnights were aimed at

encouraging hobbies and pastimes. These could be followed by part-time study in vocational subjects. There were courses in arts and crafts, acting and music and workers could even apply for a six-month placement in a factory abroad. ‘The finest opportunity of all’ was a chance to study full-time for a year at one of the dedicated facilities, such as Fircroft College, with fees paid.

Formal study was only one part of what was on offer. Innovations like the Camp School, which involved visits to factories and other places of interest along canal routes, broadened young workers’ outlooks. Scholarships enabled them to travel, and clubs and societies provided the chance to try something new and to learn life skills.

Some of these photographs show how the Bournville philosophy extended out to the local community and further afield, as Bournville’s young people met other young people from around the world (at a time when the Iron Curtain was still in place). There were social benefits, as relationships were forged between people who sometimes came from very different cultures and backgrounds.

We’ve chosen to focus on a decade from the late 1950’s to the late 1960’s, when things were continuing to improve after the 1939-45 war and the mood was optimistic. There was a belief at that time that citizens needed to prepare for a future in which there would be excess leisure time, and developing outside interests was considered a civic responsibility.

The images that make up BWM give us insights into the culture of the Cadbury business, with its ambition of supporting young people and its values that permeated every aspect of life. It can seem quaintly old-fashioned and bravely progressive at the same time, like two sides of a (chocolate) coin, and it would be easy to dismiss the ethos as patriarchal and a hangover from the nineteenth century. However, this approach created new opportunities for many workers, and it must have been eye-opening and empowering.

Draw your own conclusions, but we hope these evocative pictures will give a sense of what life was like for the people who navigated their way through this particular time and place. And challenge the viewer to reflect on how, while corporate culture pervaded people’s everyday lives, common humanity always seemed to come shining through.

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100 MILES IN 58 HOURS ON FOOT? Impossible? No! This was the time taken at Whitsun by the first three lads home Peter Wood, Micky Abbotts, and Colin Maxwell (pictured). The 100 mile challenge walk has taken place for the last five years but this time it was decided to make it into a charity walk.

Eight lads took part and seven finished, the first three after 58 hours. One chap dropped out after 55 miles with blisters, but a special mention goes to Phil Ward (second from left), whose feet were so bad he virtually finished the last two miles on all fours!

CONFERENCE AT PERSHORE HORTICULTURE COLLEGE. A party of amateur gardeners anxious to learn more about their absorbing hobby spent a day at Pershore College of Horticulture, all organised by the Further Education Committee of the Works Council.

‘Of particular interest to us was the acre of glasshouses which varied in size from the small garden kind, to a huge aluminium type with ducted air-heating. Here we saw intensive growing of cucumbers (on straw bales), tomatoes and five foot carnation plants in full bloom’.

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AMERICAN AND SIKH BOY SCOUTS WHO VISITED DURING THE WORLD JAMBOREE HELD AT SUTTON PARK. ‘Bournville is the largest factory of its kind in the world and one of England’s industrial showplaces. There is now a great tradition of Bournville hospitality and the Visitors Department welcomes 120,000 visitors a year.

The biggest demand comes from women’s meetings, churches and political organisations. Almost every day hundreds of school leavers can be seen making their way to the Visitors Entrance - last year 15,000 of them came here’.

AN EVENING SESSION OF SLIMNASTICS AT THE CHARM SCHOOL FOR LADIES. Weekly lectures on Thursday evenings were followed by exercise classes where ladies slimmed to swinging rhythms and to finish the evening, members plunged into the swimming bath and came out refreshed and stimulated. Classes included poise and posture, diets and how to reduce surplus weight, make-up and hair care, how to plan a wardrobe, budgeting wisely when buying clothes and a talk on care of the feet.

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AUTOGRAPHED LOG FROM CZECHOSLOVAKIA. Brian Bayley (Millrights) collected the signatures whilst at a Bournville Youths’ Club work camp in Czechoslovakia, just before the Russian occupation in August 1968. In the occupation approximately 500,000 Soviet Union troops attacked Czechoslovakia to implement a Soviet Union foreign policy called the Brezhnev Doctrine.

LUCKY STRIKE. ‘Bournville Drama Society made a promising start to its new season with the production of Michael Brett’s satirical comedy Lucky Strike. This play seemed particularly at home on the stage of a theatre within a factory, for it deals with differences of approach in the settlement of an industrial dispute.

On the one side we had the men, the workers, regimented in their outlook and somewhat blinkered by their doctrinaire

training. On the other the Managing Director who was a complete feminist, outspoken, alarmingly unorthodox and relying solely on her native logic.

One feels that a word of commendation is due to the back room boys, or should it be girls, who created such a very attractive ‘set’ and to the producer, Miss D Goddard, who can rightly feel pleased with the team under her direction’.

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SIGNING THE VISITORS’ BOOK. Members of the Bournville Ghanaian mission are seen signing a huge cactus plant, whose tough leaves are autographed by distinguished visitors, in Mr and Mrs Thurston’s garden at Kumasi (Mr E. N. Thurston is the Cadbury and Fry District Agent).

Three boys and three girls from the sixth forms of Birmingham Grammar Schools visited Ghana during the Christmas holidays. The scheme was a measure of friendship to Ghana and a measure of this Firm’s faith in its future.

The Prime Minister, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, received the mission at Christiansborg Castle. He spent nearly an hour with our students who found him relaxed, friendly and informal. His conversation ranged from the eventful history of Christiansborg Castle, to the difficulties he was having with the French in determining Ghana’s northern boundaries, and he spoke freely on the thorny subject of deportations.

‘BUMPER CARS AT THE TULIP FESTIVAL, CANNON HILL PARK’ BY FULL TIME STUDENT FRANK JAUNCEY. This picture is one of many from an annual photographic exhibition at the Bournville School of Art (Ruskin Hall).

Bournville Works Magazine was invited to the Private View and reported; ‘The display by students from the Art School’s new photography section was most impressive’.

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A PICK AND SHOVEL JOB. This year 19 Bournville youths were awarded scholarships under the Youth Project Scheme. Four of them stayed in this country, three went to France, three to Germany, two to the United States, two to Portugal and the remainder went singly to Czechoslovakia, Cyprus, Finland, South Africa and Switzerland.

Road building projects to improve transportation were popular at this time and Work Camps were typically made up of 20 or so young people from all over the world. Amongst them were young people from Bournville, including Peter Rowbotham (Buying Office) pictured, who helped to build this road in Saint-Michel, Northern France.

BOURNVILLE YOUTH CLUB’S MIXED WINTER SPORTS PARTY ON THE SLOPES OF THE AROSA, SWITZERLAND. ‘Our headquarters was a large modern Youth Hostel which was a wonderful centre for international friendship. We met Germans from Cologne, Swiss boys and girls, a Swedish typist, Italians from Genoa, Dutch from the Hague and Utrecht and one lone South Africa touring Europe.

After being on the snow all day most of us still had the energy to want to go ski-ing or tobogganing after dark. There

is a most exciting run from Arosa down the main road to the next village, Litziruti. This two mile run has three hairpin bends, but both sides of the roads are well padded with snowdrifts and when crashes occur there is usually no accident. We arrived covered with snow from head to foot, but it was a matter of seconds before we were brushed down and we were just in time to catch the train back up the valley!’

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THRICE BLESSED. ‘Congratulations to Mr and Mrs Colin Whitehead (Export Office) on the birth of their triplets. The babies were born on December 4th and although they strongly disapproved of being photographed, they made excellent models and were in a lively mood.

Their names (l to r) are Richard, Beverly and Nicholas. Seated in front are Linda and Alan’.

FACE LIFT FOR THE DORMOBILE. This body work was carried out by boys from Bournville Youth Club under the leadership of Tony Coley, with expert advice from Jack Hobbs.

In other BYC news members have been acting as pool attendants at the Log Cabin Swimming Pool and members of the underwater swimming section

cleaned the bottom of the bath using wire brushes to remove the dirt. A small group of enthusiastic ‘bouncers’ spend every Monday evening improving their trampoline skills. The team had a fascinated audience at a recent display in Tamworth, where onlookers were invited to ‘have a go’ afterwards.

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SNAP HAPPY. L to R; G Wilson (Fitting Shop “A”), H Priddy (Maintenance, Moreton) and A Powell (Engineers) who all attended a photographic course at Attingham Hall on a Works Council’s Scholarship.

The Works Councils, through their Conferences and Exchange Visits Committee and the Scholarships Committee arrange the interchange of ideas, enabling British workers to learn

from the experience of others, including those in various continental countries.

A recent purchase of the Social Purposes Sub-Committee is a two sided exhibition display panel. It is equipped with lighting so that photographs and pictures can be displayed to the best advantage. Works clubs and societies can hire the panel at a very low charge.

LOOK WHAT I’VE GROWN. Lesley Kemp and her brother David pictured at the Annual Allotments Association Show.

‘In general the exhibits were of very good quality and the floral art classes, though not plentiful, were of a high standard. Anyone requiring an

allotment now to prepare for next year should contact the Secretary, who will be only too happy to make the necessary arrangements. It is always a pleasure to invite our neighbours, the Hay Green Allotments Association, to join us in staging their annual show at the same time’.

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MAJOR SUGGESTION AWARD WINNER. Mr D R Wale who is now a trainee Draughtsman, previously on the clerical staff in the Engineers Office, has gained a prize of ÂŁ260. He suggested a type of frame (illustrated) which would make it possible for existing liquid chocolate tankers to be moved by Robotug, using Collis trucks fitted with extended tow bars.

MERRIMENT AT MARLBROOK. The day of the Children’s Christmas Party was damp and dull but the coach arrived promptly at the Cadbury factory at Marlbrook in Herefordshire (first established as a milk collection station).

Sixty children and mothers were all set to enjoy themselves and devoured a substantial tea (prepared by members

of the laboratory and office staff).

Games followed until Mr Robert Lunn, the magician from Worcester arrived.

Assisted by his wife he delighted the audience, both children and grown-ups, with his celebrated ‘Doves of Deception’ routine.

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MRS L SEWELL O.B.E AT THE BGASC CONFERENCE Mrs L Sewell O.B.E, who spoke from long experience on youth problems at the BGASC conference.

so that we might learn (1) what people do in their spare time and (2) what they might like to do.

In a recent survey on adolescence it was found that a large number of teenagers spent much of the weekend in bed. These types of issues needed a lot of thought and Miss Sewell felt that if there were enough listeners we might reach an answer.

Miss Sewell said that young girls go to clubs to make friends and the qualities they look for in their relationships with adults are justice, flexibility and security.

Another point she made was that the image of the teenager as a distinct and separate class was being broken down, “You just cannot take this group and make them a section on their own, they should be blending with the rest of society�.

She suggested that it might be worthwhile for our Executive Committee to consider doing some king of survey

MRS LAURENCE CADBURY AT HOME. Here she is overseen by a bear pelt brought back from Alaska by her husband. After leaving Cambridge, Mr Laurence Cadbury entered the family firm, the first product of one of our senior Universities to do so and he became Chairman of Cadbury Brothers Limited in 1944.

I was once asked how, in this family business, there were able family members available generation after generation. I gave the right answer without a moment’s hesitation – ‘In our Firm we marry good wives!” ’ 23

STAR OF THE EAST. Mrs Premalatha Murthy specially put on her sari of peacock blue and gold when she acted as a model at a recent evening sketching class. A Hindu, from Hyderabad, India, she has been working in the Statistical Office since last August and her husband is a student at Birmingham University.

CLIMBING MOUNTAINS THE EASY WAY. Ms Marjorie Beech (Engineers Office) made friends while working for eight months in Germany at Spindler’s, the firm of artificial textile manufacturers, under the Works Council Exchange Scholarship Scheme. She is pictured in a chair lift with Mrs E Kolbe (right), who herself was at Bournville on a six months’ exchange visit during 1957/58.

‘At Easter with two friends I cycled round the beautiful Eifel district - volcanic, hilly area west of the Rhine with lovely rivers and lakes which once were craters...

During another glorious weekend I cycled into the more lovely Sauerland, its numerous reservoirs and hills are

ideal for winter sports and there I visited the world’s first Youth Hostel.

I did some hitch-hiking trips – at times speeding along autobahns at a hundred miles an hour and more – to Heidelburg, Westerwald and old North Bavaria. On one memorable journey I visited the Rudesheim – a favourite resort and wine centre and stayed at a splendid hostel where it is the custom for young people to sit outside on the parapets playing their guitars and singing. Some of my happiest memories of Germany are of the singing and music making’ 25

NIGHTMEN’S WEDNESDAY XI PLAYING THE HOMESTEADERS AT ROWHEATH. ‘As expected, the Wednesday Nightworkers’ XI quietly completed the outstanding matches necessary to gain the Birmingham and District Wednesday A.F.A Division 2 championship’.

DECIDING ON A DESK. Office desks have been going cheap at the Woodyard. They are a ‘must’ for executive types, students and businessmen. There are plenty of bargains here. Take your Ration card.

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TWO COMPETITORS FINISHING THE SENIOR 220 YARDS EVENT IN A DEAD HEAT. One of the best Sports Day finishes this year was in the 220 yards when J Clarke (full time D.C.C student) and B Taylor (Plumbers) could not be separated on the tape, with a time of 24.4 seconds.

KING’S NORTON (JUNIOR) SCHOOLS’ SPORTS AWARDS. Robert Young (Princethorpe) and Phillip Carr (Turves Green) receiving the Christopher Cadbury Challenge Shield – the schools tied with 19 points each.

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SIAMESE KITTENS FEATURE IN A DISPLAY IN CRUSH HALL OF PICTURES FOR CHRISTMAS CHOCOLATE BOXES. BWM recently interviewed the experts about the choices made by a special committee called the Design Selection Group, which in turn takes its proposals to the Patterns Group.

The selection committee has the tremendous advantage of knowing exactly what it wants – the pictures

which are most popular with the greatest number of people. These without any question are of children, animals, cottages and gardens, flowers, landscapes and seascapes.

Pretty girls are fast sliding down the popularity poll, but otherwise the public remains faithful to established favourites from one generation to the next.

BOURNVILLE WILL NEED MORE SKILLED MEN. Sign-writing is a special skill that this Bournville apprentice, John Petts, will spend about a year mastering.

‘Of the five thousand men and boys working here, no less than a thousand are in the engineering, building and printing trades and at any given time there are about 90 apprentices in carpentry, electrical engineering, fitting, painting, pipe fitting, plumbing, printing and sheet metal work’.

Mr Donald Lindsay, Headmaster of Malvern College in a talk at the Director’s and Staff Luncheon gave this advice to fathers; ‘One of the things that does matter is – whatever he wants to do, your boy should feel that he has your support and backing. Don’t necessarily expect him to be like yourself. Son’s are not necessarily like their fathers. In dealing with our children we always have to remember that it is their life and not ours’.

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SOONER OR LATER EVERY CAMPER HAS TO PEEL THE SPUDS! The Camp School has been a popular annual event since it started for boys in 1914, when it was regarded as an experiment in education. A few years later it became a travelling camping trip, with voyages being made by barge along the Midland Waterways.

It was not until 1952 that the first party of girls undertook a similar canal trip, voyaging between Lapworth and Northampton with the lessons, visits and nights camping taking place en

route. The Camp School was recognised and given an official grant by the Ministry of Education.

A new route was followed from Tamworth to Nuneaton and Ashby-de-la-Zouch - along the Ashby canal, which may possibly be closed in the next two or three years. The last trip, arranged for girls, was cancelled on the advice of medical authorities because there was an outbreak of polio in the district.

STAY YOUNG - PLAY NETBALL. Bournville Girls Athletic and Social Club has entered five teams in the Birmingham Industrial Netball League, matches will be on Saturdays. The BGASC runs evening activities every night (except Friday). It is hoped to arrange a short course on ‘Being a Hostess’, one for engaged couples and (probably) one on antiques.

The Executive Committee has now given the Seven O Clock club a room of their own. ‘It is off the Girl’s Pavilion gym and a small band of keen and loyal

members have been re-planning and re-decorating it. They chose their own colour scheme and matching curtain and cushion materials.

We now want to restart a group, section, club, ring, circle, call it what you will; in other words, we are looking for a name for a group of people who will meet at regular intervals and enjoy leisure time pursuits together. It’s your club – you name it!’

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MANAGING THEIR OWN AFFAIRS. ‘The Students Council of the Bournville Day Continuation College (DCC) is composed of two representatives – a boy and a girl – from each college “Day” and also students from various clubs and societies. It meets once a month to discuss student affairs and recently had a busy time arranging Christmas dances, socials and parties for children in hospitals and orphanages.

The aim of the Day Continuation College is to continue the general education of the young employee and to broaden his or her interests, so that whether the student is to become a highly skilled specialist, or to form one of the great army of unskilled and semi-skilled workers on whom Industry so largely depends, he or she shall have at any rate acquired the rudiments to good citizenship, and shall have discovered some worthwhile hobby or interest of lasting value’.

SCHOLARSHIP HOLDERS VISIT STONEHENGE TO VIEW THE RECENT RESTORATION. ‘The Works Council’s Local History week-end was held at Dinton near Salisbury where Mr and Mrs Charles Cadbury were host and hostess to about 40 enthusiastic scholarship holders. It was hard to imagine a more lovely setting for this short course on ‘what really happened in history’.

The crowded programme’s purpose was to study, by means of lectures and visits, the local history – mostly pre-history – of

the Salisbury area including Britain’s most famous pre-historic monument.

Those of us who went on the course with some scepticism about the theories of archaeologists could hardly have failed to be impressed by their scrupulous distinction of evidence and inference.

We look forward to being as familiar with the cultures of the Stone, Bronze and Iron Age people as we are with the Dark Ages’.

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TOP TABLE AT THE BOURNVILLE GIRLS ATHLETIC AND SOCIAL CLUB CONFERENCE. At the conference Mr Deadman from the Community Voluntary Service, Toynbee Hall, London spoke to our members about their interest in voluntary work, which would be done in our leisure time.

If a voluntary service was with the disabled, he suggested one could borrow wheelchairs and have a pusher go round the town visiting the library, cinema, supermarket etc and see what kind of problems there were; “If you find problems, talk about them, get angry about them and try to put them right.�

There were four discussion groups, each of which had several hours of discussion and at the reporting back session everyone felt that we had a lot of work to do. All of this will have to be discussed by our Executive Committee who will make plans for the future.

Executive Committee members left to right; Mrs L J Cadbury (President), Miss Clare Kerruish (Vice-Chairman) and Miss Dot Drew.

WELCOME TO MISS AGGREY-FYNN. Miss Paulina Aggrey-Fynn (left) of the Gold Coast, who is a Beoke Trust Scholarship holder, visited Bournville recently and is seen here with Miss Joan Carvell, a member of the Boeke Trust Committee.

The Boeke Trust was set up by Beatrice, a daughter of Richard Cadbury, and he husband Keet Boeke in the early 1920’s by transferring to the Works Councils, for the period of her lifetime, a block of her shares in the British Cocoa and Chocolate Company.

Under the terms of the Trust a certain proportion has to be spent on social work, some on the relief of suffering and distress, some on international work and an amount has to be devoted to education. A large sum has been given to finance scholarships for Ghanaian men and women to take a year’s course at Fircroft College, Bournville.

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YOUNG MEN FROM BOURNVILLE WITH SHIRE HORSES. Non-examination courses were offered for those leaving Secondary Schools at 15 years of age from the lower streams.

These students would often be in routine jobs with little prospect of advancement.

Many would have wanted to become apprentices and would now have realised that this was not to be, others would feel they had made no progress at school.

The three year Boys General Course included physical education, English, scale drawing, first aid, expedition

planning, industrial safety (including fire-fighting), modelling, surveying, woodwork and metalwork. The final year included social studies, household repairs and motor vehicle maintenance.

Visits were also arranged to good class restaurants, theatres, art galleries, etc - places which normally these young men of 18 years of age would be unlikely to visit of their own volition.

I’M A LONG WAY FROM HOME ‘Thirty two youths (16-30) spent an enjoyable eleven days in the Swiss Alps. The most energetic adventure undertaken was when a party of eight skiers travelled 2,500 feet up mountain ski lifts and then, carrying their skis, climbed up until they reached 8,500 feet. Then began an exhilarating and exciting descent!

We made a contribution to the social life of the hostel. Having taken two

miniature table tennis tables, we organised an international tournament.

With the help of the ‘music makers’ we had a dance one evening and a concert on the last night. On another evening the hostel enjoyed a film of the B.Y.C Polzeath Camp (Cornwall). To round off the holiday the whole party had a wonderful meal at the Bahnhof restaurant with Mr and Mrs Micheal Cadbury as our guests’.

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BGASC GIRLS ON THE SPANISH FERRY FROM TOSSA TO LLORET DE MAR. ‘The sun shone, the sky and sea were deep blue, the scenery beautiful, the Spaniards friendly and the leisurely way of life with music and dancing, sunshades and the tinkle of ice soon had us under its spell. We revelled in it all. On taking off our rose coloured specs, however, we saw there was another side to the picture.

The small town was unassuming, the old people inscrutable, the sanitation, apart from pockets of tourist intervention, primitive; roads were

rough and dusty - but the greatest handicap of all was that Spain had precious little in the way of education.

True, there was a technical college in Malgrat of which they are very proud.

The differences and contrasts fascinated us. For holidays, this is the place – for the rest of the year “Quien sabe?”

(Who knows?)’

MEN AT WORK. Nine members of the Club (BYC) recently volunteered to build a brick hut on the Sparkbrook Association’s Playground and they received instruction from Mr W H Elwell, Senior Foreman, Builder’s Department. BWM took this camera study of playground children who came to watch the building of the wall.

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Thanks To Bournville College and Bournville Works Magazine contributors and to WERK, Claire Farrell and Angela Kingston.

Credits BWM has been commissioned as part of Longbridge Public Art Project 2012-17 (LPAP) by WERK. LPAP aimed to support the transition of Longbridge through one of the largest regeneration schemes in the UK led by St. Modwen.

Through a place-making and partnership approach with a long term artist-in-residence programme, Longbridge Public Art Project aimed to enhance the social, cultural and physical landscape of the area through new genre public art and socially engaged practice.

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