The battalion won the major units contest in the 48th division (T.A.) annual weapons meeting for the thir.d year in succession, with the 7th Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers being runners-up. The 147thth Infantry Workshops and Tamworth are mentioned. The pho

The chairman of the Committee, Harold Hunter, believed that trainee nurses were not putting in enough time outside their normal studies, and made a plea for them to work harder during an annual award presentation at the Sister Dora School of Nursing in Wa

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 Walsall Physically Handicapped Association organised an annual party for disabled children, including some from Aldridge and Brownhills, which this year had clashed with the FA Cup Final. Geoff Walker, the ABC Minors Club, and television personalities

The Mayor’s Civic charity ball at the Town Hall was the last major social event in the old Walsall County Borough before it became part of the new District. Aldridge, Brownhills, Mayor Alderman Dorothy Purcell, the Cancer Research Campaign, the Cardiac Ca

The chairman of Aldridge Brownhills Urban Council, Councillor Dick Arkell, laid the town’s wreath on Remembrance Sunday. The names that can be seen on the photograph include: Howard Hathaway, Bert Hathaway, William Swann, Percy Beasley, Ernest William Hus