Stevens Avenue Children's Homes, Bartley Green
In the early 1970s, nine purpose-built children’s homes were built, each of which could house 18 children. One of these was Stevens Avenue which opened in 1974.
The 1950s and 1960s had seen small ...
Summer Hill, 19 Summer Hill Terrace, Ladywood
In 1905, the Birmingham Board of Guardians bought a house on Summer Hill Terrace to use as the city’s first receiving home for children. Its purpose was to relieve overcrowding in the cottage homes by ...
Sunderton Road Children's Home (no. 18), Brandwood End
This opened as a purpose-built home for eight children in 1952 on the newly-built Woodthorpe Farm estate.
The home was part of a programme of new children’s homes, each built on newly developing housing ...
Sunderton Road Children's Home (no. 196), Brandwood End
This opened as a purpose-built home for eight children in 1953 on the newly-built Woodthorpe Farm Estate.
The home was part of a programme of new children’s homes, each built on newly developing housing ...
Sutton Road Children's Home, Erdington
The building that was to become the children's home on Sutton Road was originally built as a doctor’s house. It was purchased by the Council in 1966, adapted and opened as a children’s home in 1967.
A ...
Tennal School, Balden Road, Harborne
Tennal’s roots are in the 19th century when Birmingham’s first ragged school was founded as St Philip’s Free Industrial School in 1847. As a ragged school, free education was given to poor children who ...
The Briars, Weeford Road, Roughley
This was an existing building in countryside not far from Sutton Coldfield when it was acquired by Birmingham Council for use as a children’s home in 1965.
It was one of several children’s homes adapted ...
The Bungalow, Erdington
The children's home known informally as the Bungalow opened in 2004 on the site of part of the former playing fields of Erdington Cottage Homes. It is a purpose-built, single storey unit with beds for ...
The Limes, Bristol Road, Selly Oak
When Riversdale was no longer adequate as the only girls’ hostel in Birmingham, it was proposed that a building which had been requisitioned farther down Bristol Road, number 214, could be adapted to ...
The Oaklands, Selly Oak
The Selly Oak Receiving Home, as it was initially known, existed to take in children before a more permanent arrangement was made for them. The home functioned from at least 1912, possibly earlier.
In ...
Tile Cross Children's Home
This children's home in the Tile Cross area of the city opened a purpose-built children's home with eight beds in 1962. It was designed to be a family group home on the newly built Tile Cross Estate.
The ...
Tile Cross Road Children's Home, Sheldon
Tile Cross Road children's home was a purpose-built children's home with eight beds. When it was built in the early 1960s, it was designed to be a family group home on the new Tile Cross housing estate.
The ...
Triumph 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. 5 Triumph Walk was one of these, opening in 1973.
The idea for the 18 bed units came ...
Tunnel Lane, Kings Heath
This children's home on Tunnel Lane was built as a 'family group home' or ‘scattered home’ on the Brandwood Park Estate in 1951.
It was part of a programme of new children’s homes in Birmingham, each ...
Valencia Croft, Castle Vale
The building on Valencia Croft opened as a children’s home in 1967. It was a purpose-built detached house on the newly built Castle Vale housing estate. It was in close proximity to another children’s ...
Vauxhall House, 205 Vauxhall Road, Aston
Opened in 1913, 205 Vauxhall Road was initially known as the Boys’ Home but had the purpose of what was later to become known as a working boys’ hostel. When boys in the cottage homes had finished their ...
Warstock Children's Home
In the late 1960s / early 1970s, there was much activity in terms of the development of children’s homes and, specifically, a growth in the number of new hostels for older children being opened.
Some ...
Wassell Grove Residential Nursery, Stourbridge
Based near Clent, the Wassell Grove building was initially used as a convalescent home - from 1917 – for patients sent there from Dudley Road Hospital, Selly Oak Hospital and the Public Assistance Department. ...