The Bournville Village Trust 
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HOUSES ON LINDEN ROAD {See plans below) BOURNVILLE 
It is therefore believed that the progress 
made by the mother country in provid¬ 
ing better homes for the working classes 
cannot fail to interest all Americans. Eng¬ 
lish men and women of great character 
and integrity, of highest social standing and 
of unquestioned business sagacity, are sifting 
this problem to the bottom ; and, although 
experiments along this line have been con¬ 
fined mostly to the efforts of a few in¬ 
dividuals, the success accompanying the 
efforts of these people has already drawn 
to them the attention of two continents. 
Thus far the 
plans formed 
for alleviating 
the condition of 
the workmen’s 
lives have been 
to build vil¬ 
lages near a 
town, allotting 
just so much 
space for fac¬ 
tories or shops 
— say one- 
tenth ; the re¬ 
mainder to rec- 
reationgrounds 
and homes for 
the people. Some plans have called for the 
removal of communities to areas far from 
towns, and, in some healthy spot, to create 
the ideal village independent of neighboring 
conditions. 
A settlement of this sort is the model town 
of Bournville, the seat of the Cadbury Cocoa 
Works, four miles southwest of Birming¬ 
ham. With the aim of giving his employees 
ideal dwellings, amid the delights of natural 
beauty and open-air life, Mr. Cadbury has 
expended about 80,000 in establishing the 
settlement, the beginnings of which date 
from the year 
l8 7?-. 
T his model 
village of 330 
acres contains 
440 homes, 
housing about 
2000 people. 
The average 
rental of very 
reasonable pro¬ 
portions f o r 
each inhabitant 
now brings in 
the sum of 
^'5246 a year. 
The spirit of 
T E 8T a. e_ e. 
PLANS OP HOUSES ON LINDEN ROAD 
The left-hand cottage here shown; the other side is a counterpart 
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