Bilston Council was considering sparing the 200-year-old public house from demolition because it was where a well-known brewery business started.

The photograph shows five men dressed in an 1845 uniform being drilled by Sergeant-Major John Martin of Dunstall Road in Wolverhampton.

The photograph shows a child displaying an embroidered banner of the Royal Arms.

Residents were woken in the early hours of the morning by the “dawn chorus” of a guinea fowl, and Jim Cox alerted the police.

The photograph shows the last of the roof timbers going in as the church was being rebuilt after the fire.

There was talk of moving the Prince Albert statue to West Park or replacing it with a statue of the Duke of Edinburgh in polo kit.

The photograph includes the Prince Albert statue, and the premises of Midland Bank Limited, Barclays Bank, and Currys.

The old Star and Garter Hotel was bought in 1960 by the Murrayfields Real Estate Co., Ltd. for redevelopment, but it still stood empty.

Spikes had been erected on ledges above the friezes to deter pigeons. The photograph shows a close-up.

Exterior.