On This Day, 16 October 1918

Birmingham Daily Gazette 

Wednesday 16 October 1918

Highbury and Uffculme.

Sir David Brooks expressed the thanks of the city to the Right Hon. Austen Chamberlain M.P., and Mr. and Mrs. Barrow Cadbury for the gifts of Highbury and Uffculme, King’s Heath, for the establishment of a permanent orthopaedic hospital for the treatment of soldiers and ex-soldiers.  Sir David Brooks said the land adjoining Highbury, which Mr. Chamberlain had offered to sell at the Government valuation, was worth £15,000. If in the future the two buildings were no longer required as hospitals it was the desire of the donors that they should be used for other public purposes.

With a sum of £17,500 in hand he was in a position to pay for the land, but a total of £35,000 would be required to complete the scheme, which included the Sorrento, Wake Green-road, Moseley, for similar purposes. In due course a public appeal would be issued.