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Drawing of a Middlemore Girl

As an Edgbastonian, John Middlemore was proudly celebrated in the pages of the Edgbastonia magazine: ‘A benevolent Edgbaston gentleman who has solved one of the difficult social problems of modern ...

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 ...

Eight children in slum bedroom

Group photograph of eight children in a slum bedroom. Taken in Moss Side, Manchester by Nick Hedges.

Ephraim Jacobs

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. ---------- 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, ...

Erdington Cottage Homes, Fentham Road: Home 12 / Windyridge

Home 12 was on the left side of the drive adjoined to Home 14. It was initially a home for girls only. The other all-girls homes, at the top end of the drive, were mixed by 1948. Home no. 12, however, ...

Erdington Cottage Homes, Fentham Road: Home 13 / Derrydown

Home 13 was on the right hand side of The Gardens – a detached building intended initially to be only for boys. By 1948, Home 13 had accommodation for 16 boys. In 1949, it was given the name Derrydown. In ...

Erdington Cottage Homes, Fentham Road: Home 14 / Beechcroft

Home 14 was on the left hand side of the drive and was initially a home for girls as were all the homes on the left hand side of the drive. In later years, however, along with all the other Erdington ...

Erdington Cottage Homes, Fentham Road: Home 15 / Littledene

Home 15 was on the right hand side of the drive, opposite Windyridge (Home 12) and was intended for boys only. In 1948, it is listed as having accommodation for 28 boys and girls and in the following ...

Erdington Cottage Homes, Fentham Road: Home 16 / Springfield

While all the other homes on the right hand side of the drive were given odd numbers, the last house on the right was Home 16. It was a home for boys only. It was adjacent to Home 15, they were two halves ...

Erdington Cottage Homes, Fentham Road: Home 17 / Ferndown

Ferndown was effectively the last home to come into being on The Gardens. In 1948, the workshops which had previously been used to train children in particular trades or skills, was converted into a children’s ...

Erdington Cottage Homes, Fentham Road: Home 2 / Paxhall

Home 2 was initially a home for girls only and, as such, was on the left hand side of the drive. In its very early years, it no doubt had mainly younger girls as the practice was to have younger children ...

Erdington Cottage Homes, Fentham Road: Home 3 / Rosedale

Home 3 was initially a home for boys only and, as such was on the right hand side of The Gardens. In 1948, Home 3 remained single sex with accommodation for 18 boys. In 1949 it became known as Rosedale. By ...