Bournville Assortment
Details:
- Author(s) Broomfield, Margaret A
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1995
- Pages 203pp; illus
- Publisher W Sessions
- Place Published York
Topics:
- Name Worker / employee housing & communities
Countries:
Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
A history of Bournville Village and recollections of the Village, its institutions, its community, etc, by a writer who had lived there all her life. Organised in c49 chapters which include: 'Early development'; 'Formation of Bournville Village Trust'; 'First housing'; 'Gardeners' Association'; 'Shops'; 'Growth of the estate in the early years'; 'My father arrives at Bournville'; 'Friends ... Meeting House'; 'The schools'; 'My father's business'; Shop life in the 60s'; 'The estate in the 80s'; 'The final decade'