House and Garden 
RETAIL STORES 'with dwellings above them 
MARYVALE ROAD 
sity of the population 
over the area on which 
the buildings have been 
erected. 
Each house has a 
garden space of about 
six hundred square 
yards so laid out that 
when a tenant takes a 
new cottage, he finds 
the garden already pre¬ 
pared for him. At the 
rear ends of these 
spaces are planted fruit 
and shade trees, afford¬ 
ing pleasant screens 
from the eyes of in¬ 
quisitive neighbors. 
The farm products 
raised in these gardens 
yield a good return to the cultivators, fully 
supplying their tables with vegetables. Be¬ 
sides these home gardens there are about two 
hundred allotments that are in great demand 
for vegetable and fruit raising for the nearby 
markets which the city of Birmingham affords. 
Two professional gardeners with numerous 
assistants have charge of the public walks, 
parks and public recreation grounds, and 
give of their knowledge freely for the benefit 
of the tenants. 
The village is served by the city of Bir¬ 
mingham with gas, water and sewers ; and 
the taxes for this, including water, amount 
to about five shillings three pence per pound 
on the rental. The settlement, it should be 
said, is not reserved for those only employed 
by the Messrs. Cadbury, and as a matter of 
fact less than half the householders are con¬ 
nected with the Cadbury works. 
Provisions were made in the Deed of 
Foundation of Bournville for keeping per¬ 
manent the suburban character of the village, 
preventing at all times objectionable crowd¬ 
ing of houses, or the establishing of such 
shops as would cause wastefully keen compe- 
RETAIL STORES with dwellings above them 
MARYVALE ROAD 
