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A maternity home in Acocks Green

Tuppenny Rice

Tuppenny Rice

Tibbatts, Birch, Bennett, Jeffcott families
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?
 
Tuppenny Rice said:
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?
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hi ...does it not have the full address on your moms birth cert if so maybe we could find out through that

lyn
 
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)
 
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...
 
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.

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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.
 
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.
 

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I was born in August 1949, address on the BC shown as 24 Dudley Park Road. In the 1939 register Edith M Boulton's (presumably the head of the premises) occupation is Matron of Maternity Home, Edith was a State Registered Nurse Certified Midwife.
I have never known why I was born there as my 3 siblings were all born in different places, 1 at home, 1 at Sorrento (Wake Green Road) and the other in Loveday Street.
My mother always told me that it cost £1 for my delivery.
 
Reddi said:
I was born in August 1949, address on the BC shown as 24 Dudley Park Road. In the 1939 register Edith M Boulton's (presumably the head of the premises) occupation is Matron of Maternity Home, Edith was a State Registered Nurse Certified Midwife.
I have never known why I was born there as my 3 siblings were all born in different places, 1 at home, 1 at Sorrento (Wake Green Road) and the other in Loveday Street.
My mother always told me that it cost £1 for my delivery.
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hi reddi could have been for a numbers of reasons...maybe a possible difficult birth...availability of room at the time or maybe if your parents changed addresses your mom went to the nearest hospital to where she lived..

lyn
 
Did your mother have any housing problems at this time?. I ask because the 1949 Directory for Dudley Park road lists:

20 City of Birmingham Estates Dept. Emergency Hostel No. 95
24 Acock's Green Nursing Home

So it was at a nursing home next to an emergency hostel, so possibly your mother was temporarily housed next door to the nursing home
 
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