Saturday 9th August

About 30 visitors came during the afternoon, including Lorraine, a member of the Moseley Morris troop, who promised to return with some photos and stories. I photographed them performing in the village during the Moseley Festival last year (Lorraine is in the centre).

Another visitor was Christine Ferris, who went to school in Moseley in the late 1940s/early 1950s.

"My first school was Moseley Church of England, School Road. On Ascension Thursdays Mom and I would walk home to Cannon Hill (we left school early on Ascension Thursday). I would walk alongside Moseley Hospital and look at the cows grazing in the field. Wearing a straw boater and white 'blancoed' pumps, summer was worth waiting for."

Another visitor, Ellie, said she also remembered cows grazing in the grounds of the hospital. She thought they may have been kept to provide fresh milk for the children.