Aston Union Cottage Homes, Erdington, Birmingham

Photograph taken 31 October 1999 © Historic England Archive/Mr David R. Grounds LRPS ref: 217087

Around the early 1900s it was decided that children should not live in workhouses. The City of Birmingham built these Cottage Homes in 1898 for children whose parents could not look after them. The children lived in groups of 20 or 30 in an environment designed to be more homely.

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West Midlands Birmingham

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Victorian (1837 - 1901)

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A young woman seated in a wheelchair at a desk in the living room of a sheltered accommodation flat at Whitby Court on the Holloway Estate in Islington. Whitby Court a purpose built development of low rise accessibly designed flats and houses for disabled people.

Aston Union Cottage Homes, Erdington, Birmingham

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