The residents stayed outside for their street party, despite inclement weather. The photograph shows Fanny Bates with a large pint.

Two Express & Star reporters, Trevor Gedge and Malcolm Grosvenor, were experimenting with breathalysers, presumably to see what it took to go over the limit. Vincent Gallagher of V. G. Alcohol – Diffusant is mentioned.

Members of the Licensed Victuallers’ Society and the National Association of Licensed Managers arranged a social evening to raise money for hospital equipment in Cannock and for the bomb victims in Birmingham. The photograph shows Joe Brian and his wife M