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If you’re a regular competitor looking for a new club and a new challenge, or just starting to run, come and run with us," he said. 8) The quaint shops

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How long before the walls of the "rest house" in the centre of the village green, where mods in parkas used to gather when I was a 10-year-old, is daubed with "Yanks Out" graffiti?In the late 60s, my mother, the confectionery buyer's PA, used to meet my father for a cigarette outside the toilets when my dad worked in accounts. Decades later my sister donned Victorian overalls at Cadbury World, showing tourists and bored schoolchildren how chocolate used to be made, while my brother briefly pushed trollies loaded with ingredients around the factory floor. Inside Clean Kilo's plastic-free supermarket in Bournville - a hit with locals who helped set it up Now that Kraft, an American food giant with a voracious appetite, looks set to gobble up the company, Cadbury has become a cause celebre for those who argue the proposed sale symbolises Britain's declining manufacturing clout. My own childhood home two miles away was built at the turn of the last century, and like most of my family I attended the school built by Cadbury so that his workforce could give their children a good education. Once a week we would march through the imposing steel factory gates on our way to the Cadbury swimming pool. When the wind changed direction, the smell of chocolate wafted over the playground. Paul Clarke, a manager at Cadbury for most of his working life until he left in 2004, says he fears political pressure may not be enough to keep the company in Bournville. "How does a community talk to a company that has no roots?" he says.

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You won't find any big, brash chain stores in Bournville. There are just a handful - and they're all small, quaint independents. Some are on the Village Green, others are in Mary Vale Road .

Co-founder Jeanette Wong said after the success of their first shop they put out a plea on social media about where to locate their second one and Bournville was chosen over other locations.

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The playing fields host a Mayflower festival ever year, and on Christmas Eve the 48-bell carillon in the school bell tower plays O Come All Ye Faithful as 7,000 people crowd around a huge decorated tree on the green to sing carols. Such community rituals are unusual in a city that has taken a generation to recover from the deindustrialisation of the 1980s.

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We look to encourage the runner in all of us and to make membership of Bournville Harriers as fulfilling an experience as possible." Read More Related Articles The immediate fear is that the factory will eventually be closed with the loss of about 5,000 jobs, but there is also concern that the social fabric of the area could tear without the focal point the factory seems to provide for its 30,000 or so inhabitants. We felt Bournville was located perfectly in between these suburbs and had a highly environmentally conscious, residential neighbourhood." Read More Related Articles The Cadbury factory permeates every aspect of life in Bournville, and the prospect of the company loosening its historic ties with the area is unwelcome.