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"Birmingham's Council-run Children's Homes"

Between 2009 and 2010 a small team, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Birmingham City Council, set about creating a history and archive of Birmingham's many Council-run children's homes between ...

"Erdington (Aston Union) Cottage Homes / The Gardens, Fentham Road, Erdington"

ASTON UNION COTTAGE HOMES 1900 - 1912 The idea behind the cottage homes was to take children out of the workhouse – the main provision for destitute people, be they adults or children. Birmingham ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Acorn Grove Children's Home, Ladywood

In 1970, Ladywood was a Redevelopment Area and, to make way for the new development, many of the old streets had been demolished. Garbett Street was one such street which no longer existed by the end ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alvechurch Road Children's Home, Longbridge

Alvechurch Road Children's Home was a purpose-built home designed as a ‘family group home’ on the newly-built West Heath housing estate. The home was part of a programme of new children’s homes, each ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Bicknell Croft Children's Home, Kings Heath

There are several parallels between this home and another children's home which was built on Reynoldstown Road. The two homes are very similar in structure, at least outwardly. Both were built in 1967 ...

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 ...

Brooklands, Selly Wick Road, Selly Oak

Before becoming a children's home, the building on Selly Wick Road was originally a vicarage. The two storey building was bought by the Children’s Committee in 1967 to be adapted for use as a children’s ...