Adams Hill Children's Home, Bartley Green
190 Adams Hill was a purpose-built children's home with 8 beds. It opened in 1963. It was designed to be a small family home (also known as a scattered home) on the newly-built Bartley Green Estate.
The ...
Acocks Green Children's Home
This children’s home, based in Warwick House, was opened as a children’s home by 1979, possibly much earlier.
Having 14 beds, it was a home for children with learning disabilities in 1979. The number ...
Martineau House, Towyn, North Wales
This house in North Wales was bought by the Education Committee in 1935 using a bequest from Councillor Clara Martineau.
Councillor Martineau, alongside other duties, sat on the Cottage Homes and Residential ...
Tennal School, Balden Road, Harborne
Tennal’s roots are in the 19th century when Birmingham’s first ragged school was founded as St Philip’s Free Industrial School in 1847. As a ragged school, free education was given to poor children who ...
The Oaklands, Selly Oak
The Selly Oak Receiving Home, as it was initially known, existed to take in children before a more permanent arrangement was made for them. The home functioned from at least 1912, possibly earlier.
In ...
Sheridan Walk Children's Hostel, Castle Vale
Sheridan Walk was opened in 1966 as a hostel for working girls – young women who had left school but who were still in care. As such, they were generally aged between 16 and 18.
According to careleaversreunited.org, ...
Erdington Cottage Homes, Fentham Road: Home 17 / Ferndown
Ferndown was effectively the last home to come into being on The Gardens. In 1948, the workshops which had previously been used to train children in particular trades or skills, was converted into a children’s ...
Erdington Cottage Homes, Fentham Road: Home 4 / The Haven
Home 4 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 20 boys and girls. In 1949 it became known ...
Erdington Cottage Homes, Fentham Road: Southview / The Probationary Home
Southview was opened as a purpose-built probationary home within Erdington Cottage Homes. Whereas the cottage homes complex was opened in 1900, the Probationary, or Pro, Home was not opened until 20th ...
Garth Nursery, Dolgellau, Gwynedd
During the Second World War, younger children in Erdington Cottage Homes were evacuated out of the city to a Youth Hostel in North Wales (known as Kings Nursery). The evacuation took place in 1941.
According ...
Middleton Hall Road Children's Home, Northfield
The children's home on Middleton Hall Road was in a detached house which the Council bought in 1966. It was adapted to accommodate 14 children.
The house, built in 1901, was a large, and rather grand ...
Athelstan House (Junior Remand Home), 232 Moseley Road, Highgate
This home has had a number of different functions during its long history and a number of different names including 'the Birmingham Children's Remand Home', 'the Boys' Remand Home', 'the Junior Remand ...
Hawthorne House, Hamstead Hall Road, Handsworth
Hawthorne House was opened as a residential nursery in 1948 as part of a phase of residential nursery development that took place during the Second World War and in its immediate aftermath.
In the ...
Fairfield, 20 Dudley Park Road, Acocks Green
This children’s home has been located on two different sites. The first Fairfield opened in 1973 at 20 Dudley Park Road, Acocks Green. In 2004, it moved to Erdington.
The Dudley Park Road Fairfield ...
"Shenley Fields (Kings Norton) Cottage Homes"
KINGS NORTON UNION COTTAGE HOMES
Birmingham had three sets of cottage homes for children built in the Victorian era - the Birmingham Union built cottage homes at Marston Green, the Aston Union built ...
Clopton Road Children's Home, Sheldon
This was opened in 1952 as a type of children's home known as a family group home or scattered home.
It was a purpose-built detached house on the new Garretts Green housing estate. It was in very close ...
Bridgeburn Road, Weoley Castle
The children's home on Bridgeburn Road opened in a purpose-built house for eight children in 1953 on the newly built Woodcock Hill housing estate.
The first houseparents were Mr and Mrs Godfrey who ...
Erdington Cottage Homes, Fentham Road: The Lindens
The initial cottage homes complex incorporated not only a school, chapel and swimming pool but also an infirmary.
Children who had infectious diseases could be kept away from other children in the ...