Forum: Homes Hospitals Workhouses

Hi, Hope someone maybe able to help me ,I received the inquest report on my grand mother from 1954 last week .She committed suicide by drowning in...

Does anyone know anything about Birmingham Working Boys Homes around 1928? My father was sent to the one in Ryland St after leaving Marston Green...

Long time no post - I wonder if anyone can help me find the location of Erdington Hospital presumably in Erdington. My grandmother died here in 1920...

Does anybody have info on the original Queens hospital? The founding father of teaching medicine in Birmingham was Robert Cort Cox, who founded the...

Does anyone know if the admission records for the workhouses and infirmaries are available anywhere? A William Busby is listed as having died in...

Hi everyone, I have just looked at the Birmingham England site (Brookfields and Winson Green) and was shocked to see the photo of the remains of the...

Hello All, This is my first post and it's to satisfy my curiosity. I would like to ask if the now Paragon Hotel on Alcester Street, Digbeth was...

Does anyone know of a cholera epidemic in Birmingham around 1854?

Hi Does anyone know what Upfill Buildings were. It is on my great grandparents marriage certificate in 1904. Was it a workhouse? Lynne

Back in the late 50s i had a scout friend who resided in (i think a Catholic ) boys home in Ravenhurst St could anyone verify this as correct and...

Has anyone any information on Birmingham Children's Homes for babies around 1915? My father was at Marston Green Cottage Home from about the age of 5...

Hi, My grandmother went into the Erdington workhouse and her name was Eliza Ann Jackson. Has anyone any info about the Jackson family (George...

My Brother and I remember playing in a big boarded up house come Mansion in Erdington on the corner of Spring lane and Kingsbury road, this was in...

Hi..I am desperately seeking information about The Towers Home at 3 Sandwell Road Handsworth. It was I believe, a Home that took young children on a...

I believe that 2 Raddlebarn Road, Selly Oak, Northfield, Kings Norton is a place were single mothers to be went to give birth to illegitimate...

I'm not sure if this should go here or churches but it seems to fit better here for my purposes. Please forgive me I'm very new and this is my 1st...

Tomorrow (16 June 2009), University Hospitals Birmingham, the NHS Foundation Trust which runs Selly Oak and Queen Elizabeth Hospitals is launching a...

Hi I am trying to find out what the abbreviations in 'Western Road U.D' mean. I have found the information on a death certificate issued in 1939...

I left Birmingham (Erdington) in 1988 to join the Army and have not been back to Erdington since. My mum used to work at what was a youth prison?...

Does anybody know the name of a children's home or orphanage located near Birmingham Central Hall in approx 1935-37? My mum was in one & remembers...