Description:Along with the other children’s home built on this road (at number 36), this was built in 1952, as a new-build on the California housing estate which itself was in the process of being completed at the time.
The home was part of a programme of new children’s homes, each built on newly developing housing estates, which were to be family group homes – a move away from the pre-second world war larger children’s homes. These homes were designed on the principle of being a small ‘family’ unit in a house that looked like any other with live-in house-parents. The first of these homes was completed in 1951, and 11 other homes, one of which was this one, were built in the following decade.
The home was built to accommodate 8 children.
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Image: Image: A promotional photograph from 1967. Unfortunately, we do not have any photographs of this children's home.
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Source: This history was compiled by the Birmingham Children's Homes Project, an initiative to explore Birmingham City Council-run children’s homes between 1949 and 1990.