David was asking for the residents of Kingswinford and Wall Heath to club together to buy an 18th century carved giltwood throne chair to be presented as a wedding gift to Prince Charles and Lady Diana. Drette Harford is mentioned. The photograph shows Ni

A 1939 Leyland Hippo pump-escape fire engine called Eveline (after Mayoress of Stafford Eveline Jones), which saw service at Stafford, Cheadle and Kidsgrove and went to Coventry to help after the Bliz in November 1940, was still going strong making appear

Four fire officers had worked for seven months to restore a 154-year-old hand-drawn pump fire engine, which was previously used at Enville Hall. Jack Bissell, London, Reading and the Kinver Local History Society are mentioned. The photograph shows Laurean

Lots of fire officers were taking part in a “Nuns on the Run” charity adventure, with half being dropped off at Land’s End, and the rest in Edinburgh, with the challenge of reaching Birmingham within 48 hours, dressed as nuns and handcuffed in pairs, to r

Michael, the steam engine, had been brought out of storage and was being made ready for the summer, with the men in charge of it all former workers on the British Railways. The photograph shows (from left) John Cooper of Suffolk Road in Holly Hall (who us

Fire officers were setting out from Stourport on a rowing boat on the River Severn to Gloucester to raise money for the burns unit at Birmingham Accident Hospital. Stourport Boat CLub, Tewkesbury, the Sharpness Canal, British Waterways and Gloucester Dock

Pupils across the school took part in an afternoon of fundraising events, including a sponsored walk, sponsored spell, skating and computer games, to held leukaemia patients at Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley, and Norman Williams of Corbyns Close in Pens

Seven steelworkers were made redundant and set up their own company, thanks to help from the Black Country Co-operative Development Company and the Manpower Services Commission. The photograph shows from left Keith Hill, Len Longmore, Pat Holden, Stan Hom

March to mark the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. “Gerry” Marsh, Dudley’s Royal Air Forces Association, Dudley Mayor Cyril Woodall and Deputy Mayor Geoff Tromans, John Blackburn MP, St Thomas’s Church, the Royal British Legion and Royal Naval A

The group had founded Dudley’s first women’s football team and was appealing for more players in order to enrol in the Women’s Football League in the forthcoming season. Jane Richardson is quoted, and the WRVS building in Wolverhampton Street is mentioned