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Cottage Homes Coleshill 1901
Thanks for the information about Coleshill. I know there was a home in Erdington which was for children whose parents worked on canal boats. There were probably other cottage homes elsewhere as they started to be built at the end of the 19th century. The Erdington place started to be used by... -
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Cottage Homes Coleshill 1901
The census returns for 1891 and 1901 show the cottage homes, Coleshill and the St Paul's homes (Father Hudson establishment) as separate. The cottage homes were for pauper children from the Birmingham workhouse. They may have been the cottage homes at Marston Green but not the Father Hudson...