Cadbury Bournville Chocotoff Dark Chocolate Coated Toffee Bag 250g, 4263142

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Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Bournville locals fear the Cadbury factory will close, taking 5,000 jobs with it. Cadbury Bournville Chocotoff Dark Chocolate Toffee Bags (3x250g) Caramel coated with dark chocolate (27 %). Unlike many other suburbs of the city, it is entirely possible to spend at least a whole day exploring the area - and still not see everything it has to offer. At one time the gardens were part of the long-demolished Bournbrook Hall, which was bought by Richard and George Cadbury. It has a collection of trees to rival any bigger park - plus it has a jaw-dropping ornamental pond of such classic design it’s almost as if the Romans left it behind.

Cadbury Bournville Chocotoff Dark Chocolate Coated Toffee 250g

The Cadbury family set up Bournville as a garden village and was very keen for the residents of its houses to feel they were living amongst greenery. Cadbury World ticket holders have a 20% discount to Selly Manor on production of their Cadbury World ticket. But all this changed in 2015 when Mary Vale News was granted a licence to sell alcohol - overturning a 120-year "dry" tradition. Even now there are facilities in Bournville that can't be found in neighbouring areas, including the beautiful old cricket pavilion that overlooks the Cadbury playing fields – and the company still pays for their upkeep.But Bournville is more than just Creme Eggs and cocoa, this part of Birmingham has incredible history, breathtaking architecture, beautiful green spaces and quirky things.

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The early principles continue to be achieved through the social mix of people living on the estate, the variety of buildings and the large open spaces.

The business was developed further by his two sons and they went on to build the garden village of Bournville. There is no poverty, but there are few signs of ostentatious wealth in a place that comes close to capturing the essence of that elusive phrase, "middle England". How long before the walls of the "rest house" in the centre of the village green, where mods in parkas used to gather when I was a 10-year-old, is daubed with "Yanks Out" graffiti? The Cadbury factory permeates every aspect of life in Bournville, and the prospect of the company loosening its historic ties with the area is unwelcome. If the company had fought off the Kraft proposal, the club – cavernous enough to host boxing bouts when I was a teenager – might have been sold, with the money raised handed to City shareholders as a sweetener in exchange for rejecting the bid.