Edgbaston Children's Home
This opened as a children’s home in 1965. It was not purpose-built but a modified, existing house in Edgbaston. It was thought that the purchase of this building (along with two other buildings) together ...
Edgbaston with Tower of Edgbaston Church
This drawing shows how rural Edgbaston was in the mid-nineteenth century. The tower of Edgbaston Old Church is visible in the background.
Edgbastonia Title Page, 1881
‘The contents will be of local interest, or local production, and […] they shall be of a healthy moral tone, and be altogether non-political and unsectarian’. So says the editor of Edgbastonia in May ...
Edgbastonia Title Page, 1900
Edgbastonia magazine greeted the new century with a re-designed title page.
Edgbastonia Title Page, 1902
Edgbastonia incorporated the City's coat of arms 'Forward' into its title page in 1902.
'Electric Treatment' in the Dining Room Ward at Highbury Hospital
In this photograph wounded soldiers are undergoing ‘electric treatment’ in the Auxiliary Hospital at Highbury, which specialised in orthopaedics as did Birmingham No.2 War Hospital at Hollymoor. Rubery ...
Envelope marked ‘Secret: Not to be Opened’ sent to the head teacher of Shooting Butts Camp School by Staffordshire Education Authority
The envelope was to be kept under lock and key and only to be opened in the event of invasion.
Erdington Cottage Homes, Fentham Road: Home 1 / Sunnyside
Home no. 1 was initially a home for boys only and, as such was on the right hand side of the drive. In its very early years, it no doubt had mainly younger boys as the practice was to have younger children ...
Erdington Cottage Homes, Fentham Road: Home 10 / Ravenshurst
Ravenshurst was initially a home for girls only and was next to the Superintendent’s house on the left hand side of The Gardens.
An extract from an oral history interview with someone who lived in ...
Erdington Cottage Homes, Fentham Road: Home 11 / Trelawn
Home 11 was initially a home for boys and was located opposite the clock tower on the right hand side of the Gardens. It was one half of a semi-detached unit – Appledore being the other half.
By 1948, ...
Erdington Cottage Homes, Fentham Road: Home 12 / Windyridge
Home 12 was on the left side of the drive adjoined to Home 14. It was initially a home for girls only.
The other all-girls homes, at the top end of the drive, were mixed by 1948. Home no. 12, however, ...
Erdington Cottage Homes, Fentham Road: Home 13 / Derrydown
Home 13 was on the right hand side of The Gardens – a detached building intended initially to be only for boys.
By 1948, Home 13 had accommodation for 16 boys. In 1949, it was given the name Derrydown.
In ...
Erdington Cottage Homes, Fentham Road: Home 14 / Beechcroft
Home 14 was on the left hand side of the drive and was initially a home for girls as were all the homes on the left hand side of the drive.
In later years, however, along with all the other Erdington ...
Erdington Cottage Homes, Fentham Road: Home 15 / Littledene
Home 15 was on the right hand side of the drive, opposite Windyridge (Home 12) and was intended for boys only.
In 1948, it is listed as having accommodation for 28 boys and girls and in the following ...
Erdington Cottage Homes, Fentham Road: Home 16 / Springfield
While all the other homes on the right hand side of the drive were given odd numbers, the last house on the right was Home 16. It was a home for boys only. It was adjacent to Home 15, they were two halves ...
Erdington Cottage Homes, Fentham Road: Home 17 / Ferndown
Ferndown was effectively the last home to come into being on The Gardens. In 1948, the workshops which had previously been used to train children in particular trades or skills, was converted into a children’s ...
Erdington Cottage Homes, Fentham Road: Home 2 / Paxhall
Home 2 was initially a home for girls only and, as such, was on the left hand side of the drive. In its very early years, it no doubt had mainly younger girls as the practice was to have younger children ...
Erdington Cottage Homes, Fentham Road: Home 3 / Rosedale
Home 3 was initially a home for boys only and, as such was on the right hand side of The Gardens.
In 1948, Home 3 remained single sex with accommodation for 18 boys. In 1949 it became known as Rosedale.
By ...