Staff at Selly Oak Hospital are reflecting on the hugely successful End of an Era event on Sunday 23 May.

The event enjoyed stunning weather, and more than 3,000 people came along to share memories, meet old friends or just enjoy the fun fair atmosphere. The event also helped raise funds for the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham Charity.

Former patients like 88-year-old Margaret Deeley came along to tell the tale of how she was treated for rheumatic fever as a 10-year-old in 1934. She found an enthusiastic audience in the form of local journalists keen to hear her story.

Plenty of long-serving and former staff also gathered, many of them swapping ribald tales of their antics as young nurses or remembering the iron discipline of matrons.

One former outpatients nurse, Joyce Shepherd, was enjoying a browse through the large timeline of the hospital when she bumped into some of her former colleagues. Soon she was posing for photographs with women who had worked or trained alongside her as long ago as the 1960s.

Two enormous boards with pictures of the hospital through the decades were available for people to sign, and these were completely smothered in the signatures and memories of hundreds of people.

A large timeline charting the history of the Selly Oak site back to the 1700s was popular with people of all ages.

The funfair stalls and bouncy castles proved irresistible for the many children who came along, while the release of pigeons at midday also attracted a large crowd.

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