The name of the site changed from Stewarts & Lloyds (which came within the Northern and Tubes Group) to Bilston Iron and Steelworks.

A new extension was to be opened by Philip Norton, president of the Association of European Machine Tool Merchants.

The daughter of David Hunter, Anita, relighting the blast furnace after it had been relined. She kept up a tradition as the only time the furnace “Elizabeth” was lit by a man, it went out.

The photograph shows Albert Gregory in a beret and wearing his medals holding a portrait of himself as a serviceman.

Pupils from Bilston Girls High School file into church for a service.

Margaret was the only female civil engineer among 4000 workers building a Middlesborough oil refinery.

A ton of bricks fell from a high wall onto a car, causing it to veer into a wooden fence and trapping the driver. An arrow on the photograph indicates where the bricks fell from.

Includes the premises of the closed-down Coliseum Cinema and Dudley Road Post Office.

Zebra crossing in front of Victorian terraced housing. The chemist Timothy Whites can be seen on the corner.

A view over Lady Wulfruna’s shoulder towards the new building, built by contractors Taylor Woodrow.