Empty and derelict shops.

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

Chris was selling his vintage 1885 penny farthing. The Tour de France in Paris and Halesowen are mentioned.

A bigger rolling plant was installed to increase capacity.

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

Police Constable Alan Ravenscroft brought Roger the Robot, a mini police which was normally used in road safety talks, to bring a Christmas message to the children’s plastic surgery ward. Nursing Sister Peggy Day is mentioned.

Residents of the flats were protesting at a proposed Dudley Council scheme to move them out and earmark the homes for young single teenagers. Councillor Geoff Tromans is quoted. The photograph shows (from left) Gloria Cartwright, Les and Muriel Morris, To

The company had come through the recession relatively unsathed. The photograph shows Ron with Sam Robinson checking a batch of glass rods.

After retiring from Rufford Primary School in Lye, Malcolm was holding his first exhibitions of watercolour paintings at the Hundred House in Great Witley, near Stourport. Halesowen is mentioned.

The article is a feature on the Cradley Heath and Old Hill area. Dudley, Halesowen, Brierley Hill, Blackheath, the Industrial Revolution, the Black Country, chainmaking and Mushroom Green are mentioned. The photograph includes the premises of Midshires Bu