The Diary of Dorothy Priest, September 1st 1914

No news in the papers.  I went into town today by train.  There was a tremendous crowd outside Suffolk Street recruiting office.  It gave me a thrill to see them.  There were more crowds outside the Town Hall.

Wounded were brought to Moor Street to be taken to the University which is now called Bournbrook Hospital [for more information see article ‘Birmingham’s Military Hospitals‘].  I didn’t see them but I saw small crowds in Bristol Street who had seen them or were waiting for them.  Then later I heard the Band taking recruits up Corporation Street to the station to go off.  And to finish Joan and I saw a train go through Kings Norton station about 1.40 of which the front coaches were full of soldiers.  Joan swears she saw Scotch caps and I know I saw khaki, so probably they were Highlanders (and not Russians).

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