Glenthorne Youth Treatment Centre, Kingsbury Road, Erdington
Glenthorne was a purpose-built residential treatment centre for young people which opened in 1978. It could accommodate, at the time of its opening, 62 children aged between 12 and 19. The children coming ...
Grantham children’s home
In the early 1960s, there were significant increases in the number of children coming into care in Birmingham. Despite the new family group homes, the city felt that it still had insufficient children’s ...
Halesowen Children's Home
This children's home has become known as 'South Acre'.
South Acre was bought in 1965 to be used a children’s home. When it opened, all the children, staff and furniture were transferred directly from ...
Hawthorne House, Hamstead Hall Road, Handsworth
Hawthorne House was opened as a residential nursery in 1948 as part of a phase of residential nursery development that took place during the Second World War and in its immediate aftermath.
In the ...
Highgate Close Children's Home, Highgate
In the very early 1970s, six purpose-built children’s homes were opened each of which could accommodate 18 children. 22 Highgate Close was one of these, opening in 1972.
The idea for the 18 bed children's ...
Hillmount Close Working Girls' Hostel, Stratford Road, Hall Green
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 girls but, unlike the Duchess Road hostels, they ...
Hockley Children's Home
Work started on building a children’s home in Hockley in 1973. This was at a time when there was significant building of children’s homes going on – the first six 18-bed homes had recently been completed ...
Hospital Street, Newtown
In the very early 1970s, six purpose-built children’s homes were built each of which could house 18 children. Hospital Street was one of these, opening in 1972.
The idea for the 18 bed unit came from ...
Howard House, Villa Walk, Newtown
Howard House was established 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 ...
Hyperion Road Working Girls' Hostel, Castle Bromwich
The working girls' hostel on Hyperion Road was opened in 1967 on the Bromford Bridge Estate.
Hyperion Road was not a purpose-built children's home. Instead, it was two houses which were made available ...
Ipstones Avenue Children's Home, Stechford
This children's home at 50 Ipstones Avenue opened in 1974 as a purpose-built children’s home with 18 beds.
Ipstones Avenue was one of a series of nine purpose-built children’s homes which opened during ...
Ipswich 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. Ipswich Walk was one of these, opening in 1973.
The idea for the 18 bed units came from ...
Irwin Avenue Children's Home, Rednal
Irwin Avenue children's home was built as what was known as a 'family group home' in 1952 on the Rednal housing estate.
The home at 50 Irwin Avenue was part of a programme of new children’s homes, ...
Fairfield, 20 Dudley Park Road, Acocks Green
This children’s home has been located on two different sites. The first Fairfield opened in 1973 at 20 Dudley Park Road, Acocks Green. In 2004, it moved to Erdington.
The Dudley Park Road Fairfield ...
Fircroft Remand Home, Fircroft College, Bournville
The building was originally a home belonging to the Cadbury family but was turned into a college for disadvantaged people in 1909.
In the Second World War, Fircroft College was used temporarily to ...
Flint Green Residential Nursery, Sherborne Road, Acocks Green
Flint Green was opened as a war-time nursery offering 24 hours care on 18th May 1942 (the same day as the Meadway). It initially had accommodation for 65 children.
It was a three storey terraced building ...
Forhill House, Lea End Road, Bromsgrove
Barrow Cadbury, as a keen observer of remand work in the city, believed that the city needed a new type of remand home or observation centre where children could be observed for longer periods of time ...
Garth Nursery, Dolgellau, Gwynedd
During the Second World War, younger children in Erdington Cottage Homes were evacuated out of the city to a Youth Hostel in North Wales (known as Kings Nursery). The evacuation took place in 1941.
According ...