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Birmingham City Council Children's Homes

Catalogue reference: BCC/10/BCH

What’s it about?

This record is about the Birmingham City Council Children's Homes dating from 1880 - 2000.

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Full description and record details

Reference
BCC/10/BCH
Title
Birmingham City Council Children's Homes
Date
1880 - 2000
Description

Records of children's homes administered by Birmingham City Council. See individual homes' entries for details.

Arrangement

BCC 10/BCH/1 Records of Marston Green Cottage Homes and Marston Green Cottage Homes School

BCC 10/BCH/2 Records of Shenley Fields Cottage Homes

BCC 10/BCH/3 Records of Erdington Cottage Homes and Erdington Cottage Homes School

BCC 10/BCH/4 Records of Summer Hill Receiving Homes and Summer Hill Receiving Homes School

BCC 10/BCH/5 Records of Riversdale Girls' Hostel

BCC 10/BCH/6 Records of Lordswood Nursery, Birmingham, later Red House, Overbury, Worcestershire

BCC 10/BCH/7 Records of Middlemore House

BCC 10/BCH/8 Records of 8 Shelfield Road, Birmingham, children's home

BCC 10/BCH/9 Records of Hawthorn House Residential Nursery

BCC 10/BCH/10 Records of Forhill House Remand Home and Observation and Assessment Centre (use finding numbers to order records in this sub-collection)

BCC 10/BCH/11 Records of Shawbury School (formerly Shawbury Approved School and Shustoke Industrial School)

BCC 10/BCH/12 Records of Athelstan House (formerly Birmingham Children's Remand Home and Moseley Road Remand Home)

Related material

Records relating to children in care generally, rather than the children's homes individually, can be found in the records of Birmingham City Council. See BCC/1/BH/D/1/1/2/1, BCC/1/CD/D/1/1/2/1, BCC/1/CT/D/1/1/2/1, and BCC/1/DJ/D/1/1/2/1.

Held by
Birmingham: Archives, Heritage and Photography Service
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/2915cd13-b144-4a81-9394-9e953f652998/

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Birmingham City Council Children's Homes