Description:Children, adults and dogs with entrance to Brindley Village in background with the sign 'Brindley Village' to the right. People in photograph (left to right): seated on verge is Douglas Davis; standing with her finger in her mouth is Pauline Davis; standing next to her is Dorrie Garbet; standing next to the dog is Olga Davis; the dog belonged to the Wainwrights; the children on the right hand side are Russ, Doreen and Bernard Cowdell; standing back left is Mr Davis; standing back right is Harold Coope; on the grass by Douglas Davis is Rex the Airedale terrier. The houses immediately behind belonged to the Wainwright family, the Davis family and, hidden from view to the left, the Garbet family.
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.