Ludford Road Children's Home, Bartley Green
Ludford Road was a purpose-built children's home with 8 beds which opened in 1963. It was designed to be a family group home on the newly built Bartley Green Estate.
The home was part of a programme ...
Lordswood Residential Nursery, Lordswood Road, Harborne / Red House, Droitwich
Lordswood Residential Nursery was the first of Birmingham’s residential nurseries, opening formally on 24th February 1928. The nursery accommodated 30 children aged 0 to 3 but was, at times, over capacity. ...
Lea Hall Road, Stechford
Work started on building a children’s home in Lea Hall Road in 1973. This was at a time when there was significant building of children’s homes going in – the first six 18-bed homes had recently been ...
Kings Residential Nursery, Penmaenpool, Dolgellau, Gwynedd
According to the memories of Joan Whittingham, who worked at the nursery in Erdington Cottage Homes and who accompanied the children when they were evacuated, 30 children were evacuated from the nursery ...
Kings Norton Children's Home
One of the homes on the Drive at Shenley Fields (a former cottage home) was Pinewood.
From 1949 Pinewood had accommodated children with disabilities. When the former cottage homes at Shenley were closing ...
Kings Heath Children's Home
In February 1960, because of a need for more accommodation for children in care, the Children’s Committee took over two former homes for district nurses, one of which was this one in Kings Heath (the ...
Irwin Avenue Children's Home, Rednal
Irwin Avenue children's home was built as what was known as a 'family group home' in 1952 on the Rednal housing estate.
The home at 50 Irwin Avenue was part of a programme of new children’s homes, ...
Ipstones Avenue Children's Home, Stechford
This children's home at 50 Ipstones Avenue opened in 1974 as a purpose-built children’s home with 18 beds.
Ipstones Avenue was one of a series of nine purpose-built children’s homes which opened during ...
Hyperion Road Working Girls' Hostel, Castle Bromwich
The working girls' hostel on Hyperion Road was opened in 1967 on the Bromford Bridge Estate.
Hyperion Road was not a purpose-built children's home. Instead, it was two houses which were made available ...
Howard House, Villa Walk, Newtown
Howard House was established as a working boys’ home in 1968 as one of the units replacing Copeley Hill Hostel when it was forced to close because of the development of the Gravelly Hill Interchange (Spaghetti ...
Hospital Street, Newtown
In the very early 1970s, six purpose-built children’s homes were built each of which could house 18 children. Hospital Street was one of these, opening in 1972.
The idea for the 18 bed unit came from ...
Hockley Children's Home
Work started on building a children’s home in Hockley in 1973. This was at a time when there was significant building of children’s homes going on – the first six 18-bed homes had recently been completed ...
Hillmount Close Working Girls' Hostel, Stratford Road, Hall Green
Mirroring the working boys’ homes in Duchess Road, the Children’s Committee decided that they would like very similar premises for two new hostels for girls but, unlike the Duchess Road hostels, they ...
Highgate Close Children's Home, Highgate
In the very early 1970s, six purpose-built children’s homes were opened each of which could accommodate 18 children. 22 Highgate Close was one of these, opening in 1972.
The idea for the 18 bed children's ...
Halesowen Children's Home
This children's home has become known as 'South Acre'.
South Acre was bought in 1965 to be used a children’s home. When it opened, all the children, staff and furniture were transferred directly from ...
Grantham children’s home
In the early 1960s, there were significant increases in the number of children coming into care in Birmingham. Despite the new family group homes, the city felt that it still had insufficient children’s ...
Glenthorne Youth Treatment Centre, Kingsbury Road, Erdington
Glenthorne was a purpose-built residential treatment centre for young people which opened in 1978. It could accommodate, at the time of its opening, 62 children aged between 12 and 19. The children coming ...
Forhill House, Lea End Road, Bromsgrove
Barrow Cadbury, as a keen observer of remand work in the city, believed that the city needed a new type of remand home or observation centre where children could be observed for longer periods of time ...