Welcome to the Express & Star photo archive website, featuring the first photographs to be preserved through the National Lottery Heritage Fund programme.

Before you begin searching, here is an explanation of what you can expect.

You can also look at pages dedicated to local history: Cadbury’s Chubb Steel

Look back at the history of the region by searching the Express & Star photo archive collection.

The Express & Star photo archive website is the culmination of the work of a partnership between the Black Country’s number one newspaper, the University of Wolverhampton and the city archives service.