Lordswood Residential Nursery, Lordswood Road, Harborne / Red House, Droitwich
Lordswood Residential Nursery was the first of Birmingham’s residential nurseries, opening formally on 24th February 1928. The nursery accommodated 30 children aged 0 to 3 but was, at times, over capacity. ...
Ludford Road Children's Home, Bartley Green
Ludford Road was a purpose-built children's home with 8 beds which opened in 1963. It was designed to be a family group home on the newly built Bartley Green Estate.
The home was part of a programme ...
Man and children in attic flat, Liverpool 8 by Nick Hedges
This photograph shows a father and his three children in their one room attic flat. Liverpool 8 was one of the worst slums in the UK and many people were forced to live in squalid rooms in multi-let properties. ...
Manningford Road Children's Home, Druids Heath
The children’s home on Manningford Road opened in 1967 or early 1968.
It was a new-build in close proximity to another children’s home, built at the same time, on Bicknell Croft.
The home was part ...
Marston Green Cottage Homes, Coleshill Road
Towards the end of the 19th Century, it was decided that keeping children in the workhouse with adults was no longer desirable. To this end, the Board of Guardians in Birmingham decided to build cottage ...
Martineau House, Towyn, North Wales
This house in North Wales was bought by the Education Committee in 1935 using a bequest from Councillor Clara Martineau.
Councillor Martineau, alongside other duties, sat on the Cottage Homes and Residential ...
Meadway Residential Nursery, The Meadway, Kitts Green
The need for residential nurseries had become apparent in the Second World War with the Public Health, Maternity and Child Welfare Committee of Birmingham Council reporting on ‘the urgent necessity to ...
Merrishaw Road Children's Home, Longbridge
Merrishaw Road Children's Home was a purpose-built home designed as what was known as a ‘family group home' on the newly-built West Heath housing estate.
The home was part of a programme of new children’s ...
Middlemore House, Weoley Park Road, Selly Oak
Middlemore House was one of the buildings owned by the Middlemore Emigration Homes – an independent organisation which emigrated children to Canada and Australia.
When emigrations were curtailed by ...
Middleton Hall Road Children's Home, Northfield
The children's home on Middleton Hall Road was in a detached house which the Council bought in 1966. It was adapted to accommodate 14 children.
The house, built in 1901, was a large, and rather grand ...
Middleway View Road Hostel for Working Children, Ladywood
In the 1960s, despite plans underway for building two new homes for working children (Allenscroft Road and at Warstock), the Children’s Committee felt that need was still outstripping the number of beds ...
Milton Grange
Milton Grange children's home was originally located in two large adjoining houses on the corner of Forest Road and Church Road in Moseley.
The Council converted the buildings and opened them as a ...
Moseley Children's Home
This detached house was bought by the Council in 1966 with the intention of adapting it to accommodate between 12 and 14 children.
According to the electoral roll, the live-in house parents from when ...
Mother and child window shopping
Municipal Estate, Kingstanding.
Mother and three children
Photograph of mother holding a baby with two other children in a slum interior. Taken in Balsall Heath by Nick Hedges.
Mother and two children in slum kitchen
Photograph of a mother and her two children in a slum kitchen. Taken in Balsall Heath, Birmingham by Nick Hedges.
Mothers Day Service
Mothers Day Service, New Testament Church of God, Wolverhampton. Photograph by Nick Hedges for the exhibition 'I'm a Believer - Religion in the West Midlands'.
My journey to and Life in Britain
I have two elder sisters and a younger brother.I am from a middle class family. I was living in an extended family in India with parents, grand parents and uncles. My father was a retired military officer. ...