Mayor Alderman J. A. Thompson opened a museum of leathercraft, including items loaned by the Council of the Museum of Leathercraft in London. Alderman N. W. Tildesley, Mr J. Waterer, Alderman Sir J. Cliff Tibbits, and Leon Jessel are mentioned, and the ph

Salwa Yousef Saidi, Aida Othman Showalla and Fatoom Abdul Kader Hussein, from Aden in Yemen, were the first trainee nurses to come to Walsall from abroad under a new special scheme run by the Ministry of Health. The photograph shows the three women talkin

The hospital held a presentation evening for nurses. The photograph shows Florence Robina Simon (left) of Broadway in Walsall receiving her SRN badge and certificate from Annette Watkins (second right), alongside the Mayor (Councillor Des Winn) and Mayore

The organisation raised money for two vital new machines to help the fight against leukaemia. Frank Weetman is quoted. Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham is mentioned. The photograph shows Dr John Stewart (right) receiving the cheque from John Browne

The regiment held an annual reunion dinner. This photograph shows four out of eight Beardmore brothers (left to right) Company Ssergeant-Major Ken Beardmore, Sergeant Pat Beardmore of Oakland Road in Wasall, Corporal Jim Beardmore and Sergeant Doug Beardm

The photograph shows those who took part in the St Quentin Canal Battle, (front, left to right): Sergeant W. A. Alger, Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant Johnson, Captain G. A. Maaher, Sergeant Croxall, Mansell (rest illegible).

A new regimental museum was being developed alongside the new Mercian Brigade barracks in order to house the war relics of the Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales’s). Colonel H. C. B. Cook and Major H. Butterworth are quoted. Lincelles in Belgium

Paramedics Geoff Preston (of Blakenall Lane) and Geoff Mills (of Florence Street, Walsall) delivered Tarsem Kaur’s baby in an ambulance on the way to the Hospital in the early hours of Christmas Day. Cambridge Street, Walsall is mentioned.

The footpath to the court was closed off and access from Anchor Road and High Street was no longer available, after an original proposed path was never built. Peter Tench and Brian Keegan are quoted, and Portland Road, Aldridge-Brownhills Urban Council, R

The photograph shows Simon Hilton surrounded by 300 turkeys he was feeding to get them ready for Christmas.