Tile Cross Road Children's Home, Sheldon
Tile Cross Road children's home was a purpose-built children's home with eight beds. When it was built in the early 1960s, it was designed to be a family group home on the new Tile Cross housing estate.
The ...
Triumph Walk Children's Home, Chelmsley Wood
In the early 1970s, six purpose-built children’s homes were built each of which could accommodate 18 children. 5 Triumph Walk was one of these, opening in 1973.
The idea for the 18 bed units came ...
Tunnel Lane, Kings Heath
This children's home on Tunnel Lane was built as a 'family group home' or ‘scattered home’ on the Brandwood Park Estate in 1951.
It was part of a programme of new children’s homes in Birmingham, each ...
Two boys on swings in playground by Nick Hedges
Two girls, Notting Hill, London by Nick Hedges
Hedges tried to show a positive, as well as negative, side of homelessness. These girls are photographed in their one room flat. They are smiling and the room is homely and inviting. However, their home ...
Two women with children in the street
Back-to-back and Tunnel-back Slum properties, Hockley, Birmingham.
Valencia Croft, Castle Vale
The building on Valencia Croft opened as a children’s home in 1967. It was a purpose-built detached house on the newly built Castle Vale housing estate. It was in close proximity to another children’s ...
Vauxhall House, 205 Vauxhall Road, Aston
Opened in 1913, 205 Vauxhall Road was initially known as the Boys’ Home but had the purpose of what was later to become known as a working boys’ hostel. When boys in the cottage homes had finished their ...
Warstock Children's Home
In the late 1960s / early 1970s, there was much activity in terms of the development of children’s homes and, specifically, a growth in the number of new hostels for older children being opened.
Some ...
Wassell Grove Residential Nursery, Stourbridge
Based near Clent, the Wassell Grove building was initially used as a convalescent home - from 1917 – for patients sent there from Dudley Road Hospital, Selly Oak Hospital and the Public Assistance Department. ...
West Heath Children's Home
The children's home in West Heath was used by Birmingham Social Services as a children's home from 1981. The single-storey building was known as 'Charles House'.
The home was initially categorised ...
Woman and four children
Photograph of a woman in a headscarf with four small children in a slum interior. Taken in Winson Green, Birmingham by Nick Hedges.
Wychbury Residential Nursery, Hagley Road, Stourbridge
Wychbury opened in 1952 as a residential nursery. The purchase of the building (at a cost of £7,500) was intended to replace the use of the Meadway Residential Nursery which was needed as housing. The ...
Yatesbury Avenue Residential Nursery, Castle Vale
When a site for Yatesbury Avenue was initially selected by the Council in 1967, it was intended to be an ordinary children’s home.
It was later decided that it would be a 12 bed home to be used ‘as ...
Young black girl in slum interior
Photograph of a young black girl in a slum interior. Taken in Balsall Heath, Birmingham by Nick Hedges.
Young boy reading a book
Photograph of a little boy reading a book in outside stairwell. Taken in Liverpool by Nick Hedges.
Young boy sitting on pavement
Back-to-back and Tunnel-back Slum properties, Hockley, Birmingham, 1943
Young girl in slum bathroom
Photograph of a little girl in a slum bathroom. Taken in Moss Side, Manchester by Nick Hedges.