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the country and collect herbs for the herbalists. There was one on Snow Hill and another in Piper's Row. The hedgerows were full of plants and there was no traffic or pollution to worry about. This must have been about 1918 to 1920 that I remember this happening. In Spring and Summer there were wild flowers in the hedgerows and the hayfields. The verges on Pendrell Hill in Spring were full of dog violets, wood anemones, speedwell and white stitchwort. In Summer, on the Wheatstone side of the road, were masses of bird's foot trefoil and the lovely light, yellow flowers of mouse-ear-hawkweed. In the hay meadows were a variety of clovers and vetches, and also yellow rattle and ragged robin � now quite scarce.

CODSALL WOOD CHURCH
The Church was a small, plain red-brick building. It had a turret with a bell. Once a month the vicar came to take Evensong and Communion. His Services were supplemented by a young man from St Peter's in Wolverhampton. He wasn't a curate or a lay-preacher, but I remember he preached some very good sermons.

COCKSPARROW HALL
In the back lane on the right, going towards Chillington, there was a long low house, and next to it was Cocksparrow Hall. This was a two-storey building, one room up and one room down, but the room was only about eight feet long and the stairs led off it. Hanging on a hook was an old policeman�s helmet.
There were one or two houses like that in Codsall Wood, for instance there was one in County Lane.

Haymaking in Codsall Wood

The Crown Public House
is in the foreground on the left

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