John Henry Barlow a club room for the boys where John Henry used to go and read stories and organise games for them. Eventually, Richard and his brother George Cadbury, impressed by the work he was doing in Carlisle invited him in 1900, to become the first manager of the newly formed Bournville Village Trust (BVT), the experiment in housing that he eventually established with John Henry’s help, to house the poor from the city of Birmingham as well as those who worked at the Cadbury factory. This was to prove his life’s work and he remained in Birmingham until he died in
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