A big thank you from the Bournville Village Festival organisers

The Bournville Village Council would like to thank everyone, especially all of our volunteers, who helped make this year's Bournville Village Festival so enjoyable. It was a wonderful day, rewarded with large crowds basking in the good weather.
Many visitors considered the Maypole dancing, by all of the children, to be the highlight of the day. A special thank you to Sue and Olivia Walsh, the maypole teachers, for all of the months of hard work needed to make such a marvellous spectacle so successful on the day.

We look forward to seeing you all again at the 2018 Bournville Village Festival.

Images from the 2017 Bournville Village Festival

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The Bournville Society
2017 - 2018 programme

The Bournville Society has a fascinating 2017 programme of events.

Click for diary details

Carols on the Green bucket collection raises £4,996 for charity

Details: Category: Latest news; Published: Monday, 16 January 2017 20:22; Written by Nigel Dawkins

Christmas Eve, once again, saw a huge crowd, gathering on the Bournville Green to welcome the imminent arrival of Christmas.

Carols on the Green is, of course, a magical Bournville tradition stretching back over 60 years.

Organised by the local group of Christian churches, the service is always wonderfully led by Canon Peter Babington, the vicar of the Bournville Parish Church.

The bucket collection taken after the service is organised and manned by members of the Bournville Village Council. This year, Bournville folk were particularly generous with the collection raising the grand sum of £4,996..

This fabulously generous collection will be distributed amongst local charities over the next few weeks.

William Alexander Harvey's book, The Model Village and its Cottages: Bournville.

The gifted architect William Alexander Harvey, responsible for so many of Bournville's most iconic building designs wrote a famous book in 1906 entitled, The Model Village and its Cottages: Bournville.
It contains photos and drawings of many of those early houses as well as his unique insight into the development of Bournville.
Click here to view this historic book.

BOURNVILLE THROUGH TIME by The Bournville Society.

Members of the Bournville Society Committee have spent eighteen months preparing a new publication devoted to the Bournville Estate and published by Amberley Publishing Ltd. An exhaustive trawl through many major picture archives and the entire collection of Bournville Works Magazine from 1902 revealed fascinating information.
The committee has sought to use pictures which have not been widely published and many will be viewed for the first time. Each historic picture is replicated in colour by a contemporary photograph taken from the same position where possible.