My journey to and Life in Britain
This is my grandfather's funeral. He is in the middle of the picture.
This picture is of him being sat upright before his burial.
On the left of the picture is my father, and third from right is ...
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 ...
My journey to and Life in Britain
I have lived all my life in Handsworth and my family came to this country in 1963.
At that time we lived together in the houses with Afro Caribbean people. I lived with mixed families up until 1974. ...
My journey to and Life in Britain
I got married in 1957. My parents arranged my marriage and that was the tradition of those days. Bride and bridegroom had no say in the choice of their partners. Those marriages lasted for a long time, ...
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. ...
Newton Street Remand Home, Birmingham City Centre
Not far from the Law Courts, the Newton Street premises were given to the city by Geraldine and Barrow Cadbury in 1928.
At the time, the remand home is described as having the juvenile court below ...
Nicholls Street Children's Home, West Bromwich
Nicholls Street was not in Birmingham but in West Bromwich. It had been in use as a children’s home in, and for, West Bromwich. Once it was empty, Birmingham took it over.
It was a three storey terraced ...
Norton Approved School
Norton School was never run by Birmingham City Council. However, as it began life in Birmingham and later was run by Warwickshire Social Services, there has been some confusion over its status and it ...
Oakhill House, Meadow Road, Edgbaston
Oakhill House, next to the Woodbourne Priory Hospital, opened as a reception centre in 1968. It was officially opened by HRH Princess Alexandra on Monday 6th May 1968.
By this time, Birmingham City ...
Oaklands Residential Nursery, Worcester Road, Droitwich
From 1921, Oaklands was originally used as a working girls’ hostel. It changed function in 1924, becoming a convalescent home.
During the Second World War, there was a great need for nurseries to ...
Packington Avenue Children's Home, Shard End
Packington Avenue was a purpose-built home designed as a ‘family group home’ on the newly-built Shard End Estate.
The home was part of a programme of new children’s homes, each built on newly developing ...
Pat's Journey to Birmingham
Pat's Parents and Great Grandparents worked for an English Lord.
The Lord moved to England- Pats father decided to stay with his grandparents in Ireland.
His father was a red coat who worked with ...
Pat's Journey to Birmingham
Family and traditional Irish life:-
Pat has 7 siblings- 5 boys and 2 girls
all Limerick born.
Pat's family had a happy, humble upbringing -lots of hand me down clothes- often went to school in ...
Perry Barr Children's Home
In the early 1970s, six purpose built children’s homes were built each of which could house 18 children. This home in Perry Barr was one of these, opening in 1973.
When the home was being built in ...
Perry Villa, 155 Church Road, Perry Barr
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 ...
Photograph of Joscelyne with her mother and her sister Margaret in front of a bookcase by William Smedley Aston
Photograph of Joscelyne’s sister Margaret and their father in front of a bookcase by William Smedley Aston
Photograph of the Parsons family of Halesowen, 1915, showing Abednego Parsons, his wife Fanny, and their daughters Sarah and Norah
Abednego was a Private in the Royal Army Medical Corps and served in France. He survived and returned home at the end of the war. The family is shown in a conventional studio pose with the father standing ...