"Birmingham's Council-run Children's Homes"

Between 2009 and 2010 a small team, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Birmingham City Council, set about creating a history and archive of Bi...

"Erdington (Aston Union) Cottage Homes / The Gardens, Fentham Road, Erdington"

ASTON UNION COTTAGE HOMES 1900 - 1912 The idea behind the cottage homes was to take children out of the workhouse – the main provision for dest...

"Shenley Fields (Kings Norton) Cottage Homes"

KINGS NORTON UNION COTTAGE HOMES Birmingham had three sets of cottage homes for children built in the Victorian era - the Birmingham Union built...

‘In the Happy Days of Our Childhood’ by Maria Cadbury

Maria wrote this memoir much later in life at the request of her niece. Maria was born in 1838 and was the daughter of John Cadbury and his wife Ca...

‘In the Happy Days of Our Childhood’ by Maria Cadbury

In the late 18th and 19th centuries seaside holidays became popular with those families who could afford them. With improved transport links, this...

The Sitting Room, by Myra Bunce

‘Mr. Bunce is an intense lover of art and artists […] notable examples of Wainwright, of his old friend Henshaw, of H. Moore, Langley, J. Collier, ...

Acocks Green Children's Home

This children’s home, based in Warwick House, was opened as a children’s home by 1979, possibly much earlier. Having 14 beds, it was a home for ...

Acorn Grove Children's Home, Ladywood

In 1970, Ladywood was a Redevelopment Area and, to make way for the new development, many of the old streets had been demolished. Garbett Street wa...

Adams Hill Children's Home, Bartley Green

190 Adams Hill was a purpose-built children's home with 8 beds. It opened in 1963. It was designed to be a small family home (also known as a scatt...

Admington Road Children's Home, Sheldon

This children's home was opened in 1952 as a family group, or scattered, home. When it opened it was a purpose-built detached house on the newly...

Allenscroft Road Working Boys' Home, Kings Heath

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, many new children's homes were opened in Birmingham and several of these were intended to be homes for working c...

Alvechurch Road Children's Home, Longbridge

Alvechurch Road Children's Home was a purpose-built home designed as a ‘family group home’ on the newly-built West Heath housing estate. The hom...