He built Rocester along the lines of Bourneville and Port Sunlight into an effective marketing home for the company, and an efficient production centre and a virtual "home" for his employees.
After Cambridge she taught 14-year-old girls at Cadbury's Continuation School in Bourneville on day release from the chocolate factory.
Talbot Village was created to provide housing for the unemployed parishioners of Kinson; it stands apart from model villages such as the Cadbury family's Bourneville which were built to house workers, who would then be able to perform their jobs with greater efficiency: the Talbot sisters received no financial return from their residents for having set up the village.
The condition was also studied by the British dermatologist, John James Pringle (1855-1922), leading some historical texts to refer to it as "Bourneville-Pringle disease".