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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Moseley Children's Home
This detached house was bought by the Council in 1966 with the intention of adapting it to accommodate between 12 and 14 children.
According to the electoral roll, the live-in house parents from when ...
Milton Grange
Milton Grange children's home was originally located in two large adjoining houses on the corner of Forest Road and Church Road in Moseley.
The Council converted the buildings and opened them as a ...
Middleway View Road Hostel for Working Children, Ladywood
In the 1960s, despite plans underway for building two new homes for working children (Allenscroft Road and at Warstock), the Children’s Committee felt that need was still outstripping the number of beds ...
Middlemore House, Weoley Park Road, Selly Oak
Middlemore House was one of the buildings owned by the Middlemore Emigration Homes – an independent organisation which emigrated children to Canada and Australia.
When emigrations were curtailed by ...
Merrishaw Road Children's Home, Longbridge
Merrishaw Road Children's Home was a purpose-built home designed as what was known as a ‘family group home' on the newly-built West Heath housing estate.
The home was part of a programme of new children’s ...
Meadway Residential Nursery, The Meadway, Kitts Green
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 ...
Marston Green Cottage Homes, Coleshill Road
Towards the end of the 19th Century, it was decided that keeping children in the workhouse with adults was no longer desirable. To this end, the Board of Guardians in Birmingham decided to build cottage ...
Manningford Road Children's Home, Druids Heath
The children’s home on Manningford Road opened in 1967 or early 1968.
It was a new-build in close proximity to another children’s home, built at the same time, on Bicknell Croft.
The home was part ...