A Cottage Home
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A Cottage Home
Image: © Richard Law Taken: 16 Jan 2014
One of the original 14 Marston Green Cottage Homes, built in 1878-79 for the pauper children of Birmingham, as an offshoot of the Winson Green workhouse. Each of these cottages was home to 30 children, who learnt a variety of trades and household work http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Birmingham/ Most of the site has now been demolished, apart from this house and another like it at the entrance, the Porter's Lodge, and the Image All are now part of Image
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Image Location
Latitude
52.468409
Longitude
-1.738525