The Prince of Wales congratulated volunteer canal workers from a Willenhall school and from the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal Society, based in Wolverhampton, for the part they had played in a scheme to give disabled childrem canal holidays. The

Swimming club the Monday Night Otters Club presented a colour television to the children’s hospital in memory of a Council gardener, Bill Behenna, who had been killed when his moped collided with a JCB Digger on his way home to Bilbrook. The photograph sh

Fire officers, working in shifts, were pushing a 50 foot wheeled fire escape from Fallings Park Fire Station, through Tettenhall, Dudley, Sandwell, Birmingham, Aldridge and Walsall, to raise money for the Wolverhampton branch of the Society for Mentally H

Fire officers of Fallings Park Fire Station organised a fete to raise money for the Fire Services Benevolent Fund and the Wolverhampton Society for the Mentally Handicapped, with special guests Wolves player George Berry, Queen’s Park Rangers player Bob H

Families with young children and tenants with heart and asthmatic conditions had been left stranded in their block of flats as the lifts were constantly breaking down. Councillor Ken Purchase, Hilary Clark, and Helen Lawrence are mentioned. The photograph

After consulting solicitors and being unable to trace the owners of a derelict site, the association lodged a possessionary title with the Land Registration Office in Gloucester, and went, armed with spades and scythes, to start clearing the site. Wolverh

Seven nurses reached the Midland final of the contest, where television personality Leslie Crowther was acting as a patient. The photograph shows in front with Leslie (from left) Kathy Dolan from Coventry, Pauline Pearsall from Stafford General Infirmary,

Local people, led by former England women’s cricket captain Rachel Heyhoe-Flint, were calling on Tory MP Nick Budgen to back their fight against Tarmac’s plans to build an office block on lane between Danescourt Road and Coppice Lane. Wolverhampton Counci

The battery won the Manorbier Cup against competition from units all over the country, firing Blowpipe missiles at targets over Otterburn training area in Northumberland. The photograph shows (from left) Gunner Ian Kenyon, Lance Brigadier Ian Brownhill, G

Albert received the Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire’s certificate for outstanding service and devotion to duty, presented by Brigadier J. R. Rigby of the 23rd Artillery Brigade, after his wife, Dorothy, won a similar award a year earlier for her work wit