<Highcroft was originally the Aston Union workhouse before Aston became part of Birmingham.
It then became a psychiatric hospital & eventually, as previous posters have said, was converted to housing.
I believe that at one time, a large proportion of the inmates were elderly sufferers from senility/alzheimers etc & there was a large outpatients section dealing with people who had mental health problems, but that as in the 60s when a friend of mine trained there as a psychiatric nurse.
