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Down Your Way

This picture features residents from Castle Vale at the event that we held in the Resident’s Club in July 2009. Sound It Out Community Music’s ‘Down Your Way’ Music and Heritage Project celebrates ...

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 ...

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, ...

St Athan Croft Children's Home, 34 St Athan Croft, Castle Vale

This children’s home on St Athan Croft was opened in 1967. When it opened it was a new build – a large detached house - on the newly built Castle Vale housing estate. It was in close proximity to another ...

Valencia Croft, Castle Vale

The building on Valencia Croft opened as a children’s home in 1967. It was a purpose-built detached house on the newly built Castle Vale housing estate. It was in close proximity to another children’s ...

Yatesbury Avenue Residential Nursery, Castle Vale

When a site for Yatesbury Avenue was initially selected by the Council in 1967, it was intended to be an ordinary children’s home. It was later decided that it would be a 12 bed home to be used ‘as ...

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