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 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 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: 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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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’ ...
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 ...
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 Oak Children's Home
In the early 1970s, six purpose-built children’s homes were built each of which could accommodate 18 children. A further three such homes were built in the mid-1970s. This home in Selly Oak was one of ...
Roundlea Road Children's Home, Weoley Castle
This purpose-built children’s home with eight beds opened in 1953 on the newly built Woodcock Hill Estate.
The home was part of a programme of new children’s homes, each built on Birmingham's newly ...
Reynoldstown Road, Castle Bromwich
This children's home opened in 1967. It was in a purpose-built large house on the Bromford Bridge Estate very close to the M6 motorway.
It looked similar in design and style to the children's home ...
Rednal Road Hostel for Working Girls, West Heath
In the late 1960s, despite there being plans in place for building two new homes for working children (Allenscroft Road and one in Warstock), the Children’s Committee felt that need was outstripping the ...
Rednal Children's Home
This children's home in Rednal was built as what was known as a 'family group home' in 1951 on the Rednal House Estate.
The home was part of a programme of new children’s homes, each built on Birmingham's ...
The Uplands, 33 Greenhill, Blackwell
In the Worcestershire countryside to the south-west of Birmingham, the Uplands was acquired for use as a reception centre in 1967.
The building, dating from the end of the 19th century, had previously ...
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 ...