Flint Green Residential Nursery, Sherborne Road, Acocks Green
Flint Green was opened as a war-time nursery offering 24 hours care on 18th May 1942 (the same day as the Meadway). It initially had accommodation for 65 children.
It was a three storey terraced building ...
Fircroft Remand Home, Fircroft College, Bournville
The building was originally a home belonging to the Cadbury family but was turned into a college for disadvantaged people in 1909.
In the Second World War, Fircroft College was used temporarily to ...
Erdington Cottage Homes, Fentham Road: Home 9 / Appledore
Home 9 was initially a home for boys only and, as such was on the right side of the drive. Home 9 was a semi-detached house sharing a wall with the adjacent home. Opposite these two homes was the Superintendent’s ...
Erdington Cottage Homes, Fentham Road: Home 8 / Glenedyth
Home 8 was initially a home only for girls and, as such was on the left side of the drive. It was one of the detached homes.
By 1948, Home 8 was mixed with accommodation for 18 boys and girls. In 1949 ...
Erdington Cottage Homes, Fentham Road: Home 7 / Birkdale
Home 7 was initially a home for boys only and, as such, was on the right side of the drive. At the back of Home 7 was the sports pavilion.
In 1948, Home 7 remained as a home for boys only with accommodation ...
Erdington Cottage Homes, Fentham Road: Home 6 / Fairlawn
Home 6 was initially a home for girls only and, as such, was on the left hand side of the drive.
By 1948, Home 4 had become mixed with accommodation for 18 boys and girls. In 1949 it was given the ...
Erdington Cottage Homes, Fentham Road: Home 5 / Braemar
Home 5 was initially a home for boys only and, as such was on the right hand side of the drive.
In 1948, Home 5 remained as being for boys only with accommodation for 18 boys. In 1949, it became known ...
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 ...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Children's Home
Built where Southview used to be, this children's home in Erdington was opened in 2004.
The home accommodates up to eight children.
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Image: Work begins on the new children's home, February ...
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 ...