Cleaning up in the kitchen after tea.
Bromsgrove is a town in Worcestershire, England about 16 miles (26 km) north-east of Worcester and 13 miles (21 km) south-west of Birmingham city centre.
It had a population of 29,237 in 2001 (39,644 in the wider Bromsgrove/Catshill urban area).[1] Bromsgrove is the main town in the larger Bromsgrove District.
In the Middle Ages it was a small market town; primarily producing cloth through the early modern period.
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it became a major centre for nail making.
The Birches was a childrens home in Bromsgrove, now closed down. All the pictures are from about 45 years ago and time has not been very kind to many of them.