Description:This children's home in Rednal was built as what was known as a 'family group home' in 1951 on the Rednal House Estate.
The home was part of a programme of new children’s homes, each built on Birmingham's newly developing housing estates, which were to be small family homes – a move away from the pre-second world war larger children’s homes. These homes were built on the principle of a small ‘family’ unit in a house that looked much like any other on the estate. The first of these homes was completed in 1951, and a further 11 were built in the following decade.
Initially, like all the family group homes built in the early 1950s, it had eight beds. In 1975, however, it was knocked through into the house next door to make a single 12-bed unit. In the 1980s, both boys and girls were living there.
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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.