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 ...
George and Elizabeth Cadbury with their children
Families were often larger than today, and the death of one parent often resulted in extended step-families. George Cadbury had five children with his first wife Mary Tylor: George junior and Edward ...
Girl in slum interior
Photograph of a little girl in a white dress in a derelict house. Taken in Liverpool by Nick Hedges.
Girl on swing
Slum Housing, near the Malden Road, London.
Girl sweeping yard
Photograph of a girl sweeping a back yard, seen from above. Taken in Salford by Nick Hedges.
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 ...
'Going to bed', by Joscelyne Gaskin
Joscelyne Gaskin (1903-1993) was the daughter of the Birmingham artists and designers Arthur Joseph Gaskin and Georgie Evelyn Cave France. Her parents both worked in a variety of media, with Georgie initially ...
'Grace before Meat', by David Wilkie
Oil painting by David Wilkie (1785-1841).
‘Grace before Meat‘ shows three generations of a family saying a prayer before sharing a meal together. In paintings like this, Wilkie presented an intimate ...
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 ...
Group of children crossing the road
Group of children playing in street
Back-to-back and Tunnel-back Slum properties, Hockley, Birmingham.
Group of children playing in street
Back-to-back and Tunnel-back Slum properties, Hockley, Birmingham.
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 ...
Handsworth Self Portrait - Untitled
Photograph from the 'Handsworth Self Portrait' project.
Handsworth-based photographers Derek Bishton, Brian Homer and John Reardon organised the self-portrait project in autumn 1979. They built a ...
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 ...