the cadbury story begins well before bournville. on bull street in birmingham city centre. john's sons, richard and george, took over an ailing business in 1861, turning its fortunes around by selling chocolate to upwardly mobile victorians. by 1879, cadbury had outgrown its cramped city premises. so the brothers, devout quakers, built a new factory in countryside three miles south of birmingham, with green space and spacious homes for workers. they gave it this kind of french lilt to it — the name bournville, ville meaning town in french, and the best chocolate you could buy at the time was from france and belgium. the link between the factory and the garden village that surrounds it remains today. cadbury's came to bournville over 140 years ago. it's worked, and it continues to work. for 145 of its 200 years, cadbury and bournville have been inextricably linked. you can even smell the chocolate in the air if the breeze is blowing in the right direction. but in 2010, a controversial takeover threatened to derail cadbury's place as