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

Chris had completed an Opertaion Raleigh bike ride through Wales, from Aberystwyth to Chester, and was hoping to join a conservation expedition in Malaysia.Durham University is mentioned.

Kidderminster’s Kemp Home Care Hospice Day Centre had raised more than £4000 in a buy-a-brick appeal to refurbish the house in Sutton Park Road. The photograph shows David handing a cheque to Elizabeth Harris.

A Second World War battle re-enactment was one of the highlights of the tattoo. The photograph shows Nicky Rudd (left) and Stephanie Shepherd with Anna, the British Legion Wyre Forest Youth Band mascot.

Thomas Parker and Bedford Elwell are mentioned. The photograph shows part of a batch of generators to be exported to the Far East.

A new group of the Church of England Children’s Society, set up in the Hartlebury, Stourport and Ombersley area, had arranged a country lunch and craft fair in the State Rooms at Hartlebury Castle, near Kidderminster, to raise money. John Smith is quoted.

Two years after its closure, no decision had been made on the future of the bulding. Rank, Marks and Spencer Ltd, and Hortons Estates Ltd. of Colmore Row in Birmingham are mentioned.

A single yellow line painted on a link road from Bath Avenue to the car parks at the back of Waterloo Road had been painted in error. Wolverhampton Council, Mr E. K. Ashby and the Wolverhampton Motor Finance Co., Ltd. are mentioned.

After Compulsory Purchase Orders were issued in 1973 in preparation for the Ring Road, shopkeepers moved out and vandals moved in, leaving the buildings decayed and derelict. The Home and Garden supplies at the Bell Place junction is mentioned.

The junction with Napier Road, where a car had crashed into the C. H. Brown butcher’s shop, killing two people.