Selly Oak Nursery temporary accommodation
Play was central to the child’s kindergarten experience. The sandpit, the wooden horse, and the different creative activities on each table all encouraged play. Froebel believed that play was educational ...
Selly Oak Nursery, 26 Tiverton Road
Selly Oak Nursery opened in a new building in 1921. Fresh air and allowing children to move freely between inside and outside was a key feature of the Nursery’s design. The classroom is spacious and ...
Selly Park Children's Home
Work started on building a new children’s home in Selly Park in 1973. This was at a time when there was significant building of children’s homes going on in Birmingham – the first six 18-bed homes had ...
Selly Wick Road Children's Home, Selly Oak
In 1974, a house at 16 Selly Wick Road, just down the road from an existing children’s home, Brooklands, was adapted to be a home for six children with learning disabilities.
This appears to have been ...
Service Girls’ Home, 33 Beaufort Road, Ladywood
The Service Girls’ home at 375 Moseley Road was considered to be inadequate by the Board of Guardians who ran it so a house on Beaufort Road was leased and adapted to replace it.
The new service girls’ ...
Service Girls’ Home, 375 Moseley Road, Balsall Heath
The idea of the service girls’ home was that it would be for older girls under the care of the Guardians, who had finished their schooling and training, and would be found jobs in domestic service (generally ...
'Shallus - Let's', by Henry Laxton
This is one of several caricatures published by wounded soldiers in the Edgbaston WW1 military hospital magazine that express deeply conflicted feelings towards the medical and administrative staff.
Illustration ...
Shawbury Approved School / Shustoke Industrial School for boys
Shustoke Industrial School opened in 1868 in the premises of ‘The Shawberries’ a Georgian country house.
The industrial schools were originally intended to take in children who were destitute or in ...
Shelfield Road Children's Home, Kings Heath
This children's home 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, each built on Birmingham's newly ...
Shenley Field Cottage Homes: Home 2 (Rose Cottage) / Suncrest
Home 2, or Rose Cottage as it was occasionally known, was one of the homes within Shenley Fields Cottage Homes.
When they were built by the Kings Norton Union, the Cottage Homes aimed to accommodate ...
Shenley Fields Cottage Homes: Bythorn
Initially known as the Matron’s House, Bythorn was built after the initial phases of building in the Shenley Field Cottage Homes. We believe the Matron's House opened in 1935. As it was initially called ...
Shenley Fields Cottage Homes: Home 1, Merriland
Home 1 was one of the homes within Shenley Fields Cottage Homes.
When they were built by the Kings Norton Union, the Cottage Homes aimed to accommodate orphaned, abandoned or destitute children who ...
Shenley Fields Cottage Homes: Home 10 / Ryedale
Home 10 was not one of the initial homes built in the Shenley Fields Cottage Homes complex. It was built a few years later – probably one of the two homes built in 1905 – one for 28 children, and one ...
Shenley Fields Cottage Homes: Home 11 / The Probation Home / Elmdene
The probationary home was opened on 6th February 1902.
This was described in the annual report of the time as an ‘experiment’ as it would mean children could, for the first time, be admitted directly ...
Shenley Fields Cottage Homes: Home 3 / Rosemead
Home 3 was one of the first homes built in the Shenley Fields Cottage Homes complex and was initially built to house 24 girls. It remained an all-girls home until the 1930s.
One of the first housemothers ...
Shenley Fields Cottage Homes: Home 4 / Jasmine
Home 4 was one of the first homes built in the Cottage Homes complex and was initially built to house 24 girls. It remained an all-girls home until the 1930s.
Miss Black was one of the earliest housemothers, ...
Shenley Fields Cottage Homes: Home 5 / Ferndale / Cherry Garth
Home 5 was one of the first homes built in the Shenley Fields Cottage Homes complex and was initially built to house 24 girls. It was initially the home closest to the Lodge.
May Pearson, contributing ...
Shenley Fields Cottage Homes: Home 6 / Greenways
Home 6 was not one of the initial homes built in the Shenley Fields Cottage Homes complex. It was built a few years later – probably one of the two homes built in 1893 for 24 children. As such, it would ...