A maternity home in Acocks Green

[Tuppenny Rice]

My mom was born in 1941 during an air raid in the basement of a small private nursing home in Acocks Green (described as 'a house' - it had a piano!). Does anyone know where it might have been?

 

[Astoness]

My mom was born in 1941 during an air raid in the basement of a small private nursing home in Acocks Green (described as 'a house' - it had a piano!). Does anyone know where it might have been?

hi ...does it not have the full address on your moms birth cert if so maybe we could find out through that

lyn

 

[helen beeston]

hi ...does it not have the full address on your moms birth cert if so maybe we could find out through that

lyn

My uncle was also born here. The address on his birth certificate is 19 Sherbourne Road

 

[pjmburns]

1940 Kelly's directory

 

[Tuppenny Rice]

1940 Kelly's directory
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Oh wow, thankyou. Sorry not been on here in a while. Is that the only nursing home listed for Acocks Green? Mom is living back in the area now, by the way.

 

[Tuppenny Rice]

Ps the name remains, if not the building

 

[pjmburns]

Have you got an answer for post #2?

 

[Tuppenny Rice]

I'll get my sister to look it up, it's at hers. I didn't realise it would be on there, the address isn't on mine (1970)

 

[pjmburns]

I think date and place of birth should be in the first column.

 

[Tuppenny Rice]

Mum is now in a care home on Dudley Park Road (the next road to Sherbourne), it's an old house, of the type that might well have been a nursing home in the 1940s. Imagine if she was born there! I expect it was Bon Accord though...

 

[pjmburns]

It may be coincidence but a midwife lived at 24 Dudley Park Road in 1940 but it doesn't suggest it was a Home of any sort.

 

[superdad3]

Originally known as Bon Accord. Site subsequently demolished and a replacement Christadelphian Care Home etc built on the Site - also known as Bon Accord. Here's a pic from Acocks Green Hist Soc of what I am fairly sure was the original building as it is listed as Bon Accord, 19 Sherborne Rd.

 

[Tuppenny Rice]

Wow, shame they had to demolish it

 

[Vivienne14]

There were lots of notices of births at Bon Accord Nursing Home, Acocks Green in newspapers from 1930 - !944.

It was a house occupied by Mr Charles Playfair in 1888. He died on 19/11/1898.

 

[Tuppenny Rice]

It may be coincidence but a midwife lived at 24 Dudley Park Road in 1940 but it doesn't suggest it was a Home of any sort.
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Is that from Kelly's or the census?

 

[pjmburns]

Is that from Kelly's or the census?

Kelly's and also her name on the nursing register but I suspect it is her home address as it doesn't say "nursing home" or similar.

 

[Vivienne14]

24 Dudley Park Road is described as Acocks Green Nursing Home for a birth there in the Birmingham Maiĺ on 24 October 1941. Another birth announcement (19/1/1944) gives 24 Dudley Park Road, no mention of Nursing Home but gives thanks to Nurse Bolton.