Description:A whole school photograph of Brindley Village County Primary School. It includes headmaster Mr Shelley (standing far left) with Mrs Hayle (far right). The school opened on 25 April 1926 and closed on 24 July 1959.
Originally built in 1916 as a Military Hospital to serve both Brocton and Rugeley army training camps, the hospital had twelve wards with a total of one thousand beds and served the camps for the remainder of the war, as well as housing convalescing soldiers from France. It continued to be used as a hospital until 1924. The buildings were then acquired by the Coal Board and they were available to rent for local miners and their families from December 1924. The site became known as 'Brindley Village'.
The 'village' had its own school and working men's club and survived until the early 1955, when the last of the inhabitants were moved to a new council-built housing estate on the outskirts of Hednesford.
Photographer: Scholastic Souvenir Co. Ltd., Blackpool.