East View House, Shooters Hill, Sutton Coldfield
Little is currently known about this children’s home.
It was certainly open and functioning by 1979 but may not have been in use by Birmingham City Council for very long at this point - probably opening ...
Duchess Road Working Boys' Hostel, Ladywood
The two houses at 79 and 81 Duchess Road were originally established in 1963 as two working boys’ homes each of which could accommodate four boys. When it opened there was one other home for working boys ...
Copeley House, Frankfort Street, Newtown
Copeley House was opened 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 ...
Copeley Hill Hostel, Copeley Hill, Erdington
The building for the Copeley Hill Hostel, originally called Burlington House, was given to the City by Barrow Cadbury in 1934. In his letter making the donation, Barrow Cadbury said that the building ...
City Road, Edgbaston
This children's home was opened in 1967 in two adjoining (semi-detached) houses. The use of the houses as a children’s home was thought to be only temporary because of a planned road-widening scheme which ...
Church Lane Children's Home (no. 150), Handsworth Wood
In February 1961, 124 Church Lane was transferred from the Public Works Committee to the Children’s Committee to use as a children’s home.
The building had been purchased by the Public Works Committee ...
Church Lane Children's Home (no. 112), Handsworth Wood
112 Church Lane was purchased towards the end of 1970 for use as a children’s home. After being adapted, it was opened in the early 1970s.
It was a three storey building about 60 years old when it ...
Chattock Close Working Girls' Hostel, Hodge Hill
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 working girls. The Committee did not, however, want ...
Chaddesley Residential Nursery, Meadow Road, Edgbaston
Oakhill House (31 Meadow Road) was opened in 1968 as a reception centre. The following year the facilities at Oakhill were extended by leasing a house farther up Meadow Road.
The new house was a three-storey ...
Castle Vale Children's Home
This home was built to replace the children's home on St Athan Croft.
Built in partnership with the Castle Vale Housing Action Trust, it was designed to have rooms for eight children aged between 12 ...
Canal Boat Hostel, Wood End Lane, Erdington
The Canal Boat Hostel in Wood End Hall was not a children’s home as such. It was a hostel providing what was presumably temporary accommodation for canal boat children.
It was established in 1951 by ...
Beechenhurst, 10 Serpentine Road, Selly Oak
From at least 1953, Beechenhurst was used by the Council as a care home for elderly people.
In 1981, Birmingham residential childcare was divided into four districts – West Birmingham, North/East Birmingham, ...
Bartley Green Children's Home (no. 52)
Along with the other children’s home built on this road (at number 36), this was built in 1952, as a new-build on the California housing estate which itself was in the process of being completed at the ...
Bartley Green Children's Home (no. 36)
This was built as a family group home or ‘scattered home’ in 1952 on the newly built California municipal housing estate in Bartley Green.
The home was part of a programme of new children’s homes, ...
Aston Children's Home
This children's home was initially in a building known as Jubilee House.
Jubilee House was opened as a children’s home late in 1978 and was designed ‘to meet both the long-term and short-stay needs ...
Appledore, Serpentine Road, Selly Oak
The building at Serpentine Road has had a variety of uses over the years. Its first mention in the Birmingham City Council minutes is as a students’ hostel. It became a home for elderly people in 1949 ...
Allenscroft Road Working Boys' Home, Kings Heath
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, many new children's homes were opened in Birmingham and several of these were intended to be homes for working children.
Some of these were purpose built – like Allenscroft ...
Admington Road Children's Home, Sheldon
This children's home was opened in 1952 as a family group, or scattered, home.
When it opened it was a purpose-built detached house on the newly built Garretts Green housing estate. It was in very ...