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Pype Hayes Hall Home

Thank you for your very prompt response, this has given me something to work with. I appreciate your time.
 
Hi I have some memories of being assessed at a childrens home, I think was pype hayes hall as I remember the park setting with families walking through. I feel I was in one of the rooms with a lady youngish where I played with a big dolls house. I would be so grateful if anyone could tell me if they know of this or if it would have been here? I feel sure I stayed in an attic room when I was unwell. The years were 1979 80 and 81. My name is louise o'sullivan I was 5 to around 8 at the time. I would appreciate any information as my memories are jumbled at the moment and I am trying to make sense of them. Thanks
 
oldMohawk said:
The Bowling Green Pype Hayes Park in 1970 and a recent aerial view.
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An aerial view before the air raid shelter was removed.
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Looking at the Bowling Green in Pype Hayes Park c1970, I could see the air raid shelter in the background and also in the recent aerial view. It has however been removed as the following photos show ...
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Hi everyone, my name is Gerry I am newbie to this forum l just typed in Google search children's home with a donkey called Tiny. I have never really know the name of the home l was in until now and Tiny is the only thing I remember about it apart from picking blackberries and and making pie and custard with staff. I left the home and the care system in 1962.
 
Kenny Richards said:
I have mixed feelings about the demise of Pype Hayes Hall; on one hand I would glady demolish myself because it represents a traumatic period in my life when I lived there as a child in care - However, on the other I loved the beautiful house, the out buildings, the parque floors, the grounds, gardens and putting green opposite. I recall playing cricket, watching American baseball teams play, my time at Paget Road School and some amazing walks / outdoor adventures. Last but certainly not least; I still mourn for the loss of all my schoolmates who I never saw again after I left there in the summer of 1963. There was a rumour that there was an underground tunnel that connected the house with the Bagot Arms - any possible truth in that? Anyway, I hope the house remains.
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There is no tunnel to the Bagot Arms it was a myth handed down through the centuries.
 
An account of the Convalescent Home as a mother and baby home in 1940. Source: British Newspaper Archive

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And the second donkey; Tiny II, a roan mare gifted to the Home in 1962. Hope they didn’t keep using DDT on the donkey’s straw hat. Viv.C060366B-6DE1-4F34-B47F-2B72882CBF2C.jpeg


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Welcome Peter. Just following up on the history, so a general interest. I don’t have any connection with the home. Viv.
 
A newspaper image from when the Hall first opened as a convalescent home for mothers and babies.

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A timeline below of the Hall and it’s use between 1919 to 1993. The information was extracted from the British Newspaper Archives.

7/6/1919 City of Birmingham decided to buy the Hall and 78 acres of parkland (Birmingham Gazette)

12/10/1920 the Hall opened as a civic convalescent home for mothers and their babies at a nominal charge of 10 shillings per week. Mothers convalesced for 2 weeks (Birmingham Gazette)

14/8/1939 accommodation for 24 mother and babies (under 6 months), particularly those from congested parts of the city, for 2 week convalescence. Originally only babies with a mother were accommodated, but some were admitted without a mother at this time (due to mother’s illness or lack of accommodation) (Birmingham Gazette)

8/3/1941 the Hall was a City of Birmingham convalescent home for mother and babies (Birmingham Mail)

29/8/1956 the Hall was a City of Birmingham combined children’s home and residential nursery (Coventry Evening Telegraph)

12/9/1960 still City of Birmingham combined children’s home and nursery for 35 children of all ages. Family grouping was in operation (Birmingham Post)

6/4/1967 still owned by City of Birmingham, the Hall accommodated 35 children (Birmingham Post)

31/10/1991 the Hall was occupied by Birmingham City Council’s North Juvenile Justice Team (Sandwell Evening Mail)

4/3/1993 still occupied by Birmingham City Council’s North Juvenile Justice team helping young offenders and their families (Evening Mail)
 
I used to long term foster, around 1984/85 we were heading for a breakdown in a placement of a teenager. Not that we realised it at the time, but let’s just say things were becoming rocky.
After one incident our placement had to spend a weekend at PHH to give us all a break. Looking back on the thread I did not realise around that time it was for difficult teenagers.
Looking back around that time around fostering a bit more training and input from social services could have saved a lot of heartache.
 
Shera said:
i also worked at pype hayes hall between 1985 - 1995 when it was a childrens home (for difficult teenagers). it is now not a residential home but still in use for young offenders etc and offices for social services dealing with the teenagers.
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Excuse me i was one of those kids who resided there and i was not a difficult child, infact i was bullied alot daily :(
Was only placed there because there was no where at the time to go.
I ended up going to 45 Sutton rd.
I recall chalkie, Dog when we went out on camping trips.
Angela my housing officer.
Loved the place just not the time there.
A part of me is still painted on the wall in the art room when we could paint pics on the wall :)
 
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