Caerynwch Residential Nursery, Dolgellau, Gwynedd
In 1941, attempts had been made to evacuate many of the children from the cottage homes to the countryside. Approximately 40 of the nursery-age children from Erdington Cottage Homes had already been sent ...
Canal Boat Hostel, Wood End Lane, Erdington
The Canal Boat Hostel in Wood End Hall was not a children’s home as such. It was a hostel providing what was presumably temporary accommodation for canal boat children.
It was established in 1951 by ...
Castle Vale Children's Home
This home was built to replace the children's home on St Athan Croft.
Built in partnership with the Castle Vale Housing Action Trust, it was designed to have rooms for eight children aged between 12 ...
Chaddesley Residential Nursery, Meadow Road, Edgbaston
Oakhill House (31 Meadow Road) was opened in 1968 as a reception centre. The following year the facilities at Oakhill were extended by leasing a house farther up Meadow Road.
The new house was a three-storey ...
Chattock Close Working Girls' Hostel, Hodge Hill
Mirroring the working boys’ homes in Duchess Road, the Children’s Committee decided that they would like very similar premises for two new hostels for working girls. The Committee did not, however, want ...
Church Lane Children's Home (no. 112), Handsworth Wood
112 Church Lane was purchased towards the end of 1970 for use as a children’s home. After being adapted, it was opened in the early 1970s.
It was a three storey building about 60 years old when it ...
Church Lane Children's Home (no. 150), Handsworth Wood
In February 1961, 124 Church Lane was transferred from the Public Works Committee to the Children’s Committee to use as a children’s home.
The building had been purchased by the Public Works Committee ...
City Road, Edgbaston
This children's home was opened in 1967 in two adjoining (semi-detached) houses. The use of the houses as a children’s home was thought to be only temporary because of a planned road-widening scheme which ...
Clopton Road Children's Home, Sheldon
This was opened in 1952 as a type of children's home known as a family group home or scattered home.
It was a purpose-built detached house on the new Garretts Green housing estate. It was in very close ...
Copeley Hill Hostel, Copeley Hill, Erdington
The building for the Copeley Hill Hostel, originally called Burlington House, was given to the City by Barrow Cadbury in 1934. In his letter making the donation, Barrow Cadbury said that the building ...
Copeley House, Frankfort Street, Newtown
Copeley House was opened as a working boys’ home in 1968 as one of the units replacing Copeley Hill Hostel when it was forced to close because of the development of the Gravelly Hill Interchange (Spaghetti ...
Duchess Road Working Boys' Hostel, Ladywood
The two houses at 79 and 81 Duchess Road were originally established in 1963 as two working boys’ homes each of which could accommodate four boys. When it opened there was one other home for working boys ...
East View House, Shooters Hill, Sutton Coldfield
Little is currently known about this children’s home.
It was certainly open and functioning by 1979 but may not have been in use by Birmingham City Council for very long at this point - probably opening ...
Edgbaston Children's Home
This opened as a children’s home in 1965. It was not purpose-built but a modified, existing house in Edgbaston. It was thought that the purchase of this building (along with two other buildings) together ...
Erdington Children's Home
Built where Southview used to be, this children's home in Erdington was opened in 2004.
The home accommodates up to eight children.
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Image: Work begins on the new children's home, February ...
Erdington Cottage Homes, Fentham Road: Home 1 / Sunnyside
Home no. 1 was initially a home for boys only and, as such was on the right hand side of the drive. In its very early years, it no doubt had mainly younger boys as the practice was to have younger children ...
Erdington Cottage Homes, Fentham Road: Home 10 / Ravenshurst
Ravenshurst was initially a home for girls only and was next to the Superintendent’s house on the left hand side of The Gardens.
An extract from an oral history interview with someone who lived in ...
Erdington Cottage Homes, Fentham Road: Home 11 / Trelawn
Home 11 was initially a home for boys and was located opposite the clock tower on the right hand side of the Gardens. It was one half of a semi-detached unit – Appledore being the other half.
By 1948, ...