The team had received several awards over the previous year, for heroics including saving five children from a blazing house in Valley Road in Blakenall, dealing with a fire at Timpsons shoe shop, helping to rescue Abubaker Mulla who was trapped in a minc

The Council planned to use powers in the Civic Amenities Act to preserve six areas, including the precincts of St Peter’s Church, St John’s Square and George Street, Lower and Upper Green in Tettenhall, the area around St Bartholomew’s Church in Penn, and

The Battery held an annual inspection and medal presentation. The photograph shows (from left) Corporal Clive Isherwood from Wolverhampton (who was presented with a General Service medal with Northern Ireland clasp for service in Ulster), Sergeant Jim Tom