Architecture of Birmingham Sparkbrook of 1899, whose inventive but restrained design had a national influence, maintaining the close relationship between function and decoration that was important to the Gothic revival, while moving away from the straightforwardly historicist imitation of medieval precedent. The most comprehensive expression of the Arts and Crafts spirit within Birmingham however was the suburb of Bournville, which was developed from 1894 by George Cadbury as a model village for workers from his nearby factory, and was largely designed by the architect William Alexander Harvey, a pupil of Bidlake appointed at the young age of 22. Harvey designed over 500 houses
Geraldine Cadbury World War I In 1937, she was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for public and philanthropic services in Birmingham. The Barrow Cadbury Trust was founded in 1920 by Barrow and Geraldine Cadbury. Geraldine Cadbury Dame Geraldine Southall Cadbury, DBE (29 June 186430 January 1941) was a British Quaker, author, social and penal reformer. She was the wife of Barrow Cadbury, with whom she had three children, Dorothy Adlington, (1892-1987), Paul Strangman (1895-1984), and Geraldine Mary, (1900-1999). Geraldine Southall was born in Birmingham, the daughter of Alfred Southall (1838-1931), a chemist by trade and a temperance