Description:The Rev. Caller at home with his wife and daughter, Brindley Village.
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.