June 3rd, 2024
Birmingham Botanical Gardens - Bournville
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Greyson threw her tracking collar.
Very nearly a DNF. Half hour later and a phone call to Italy we had it in the bag Extreme Geocaching! |
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Lily Pond in the Tropical House |
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Lily Pond and the Great Amazon water lily (Victoria
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Water fountain feature in the Tropical House
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Lawn Aviary, 1996
Four domed, iron flight cages grouped around a central concourse Birmingham Botanical Gardens |
Octagonal iron bandstand,
designed by F.B. Osborn Birmingham Botanical Gardens |
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The Butterfly House
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Carp
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Eurasian Magpie
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Strawflowers and Poppies
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Cactus House
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Bonsai House
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Lunch by the pond at Bournville
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Bourneville Village Green established in 1895.
Sycamore Road Shops were designed by Henry Bedford Tylor and built between 1904 and 1908 |
Bournville Rest House, opened in 1916, was designed
by William Alexander Harvey to celebrate the Silver Wedding Anniversary
of George and Elizabeth Cadbury
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St
Francis of Assisi's Church, Bournville |
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Quaker Meeting House
designed by William Alexander Harvey and built in 1905 Bourneville |
48 bell Carillon, commissioned by George Cadbury
in 1906
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Bourneville
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Cadbury Chocolate Factory
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Entrance to Cadbury
World
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Bourneville Cricket Pavillion presented to to the
club by Cadbury’s to mark the coronation of Edward VII
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Former Lloyd's Bank,
now a dental surgery. The Cadbury family had a bank built for his chocolate factory workers at 83 Bournville Lane in 1895 |