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
William Adlington Barrow Cadbury Cadbury (1900–1999). He died at Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, aged 90. William Adlington Barrow Cadbury William Adlington Cadbury (17 February 1867 – 8 July 1957), was an English businessman affiliated with his family company, Cadbury, which his grandfather, John Cadbury had founded. He was born in Edgbaston and educated at Quaker schools. He began working at Cadbury in 1887. In 1905 he commissioned the first Cadbury logo. In 1921, the Cadbury script logo was introduced, based on William Cadbury's signature. He married Geraldine Southall (later Dame Geraldine Cadbury) on 8 September 1891, at the Friends' meeting house in Birmingham. Their children were