On the subject of erdington homes i had an old friends mother whom worked at the erdington homes years ago way back in the fifties and she adopted thre kids from there her name was olive frisby and she was married to a nice guy called fred frisby he was a builder her husband and her self was reconised for her work there and they made head page and photographed them in the evening mail there story of adoptionmy friend from there was graham frisby and his older brother was bryan frisby and i think the youngest was steven frisby a little mixed race kid he was very young and they all grew up in springhill passage a small house and later moved to crabtree road hockly sadly they have both passed away meaning olive and fred my friend graham and his brother as also passed away i do beleive little steven as we called him is still possilby alive today i would think little steven is bout fiftyb years old now and possibly married with is own kids best wishes alan,, Astonian ;;;;;;