Striking miners from Lea Hall and Littleton Colliery faced each other in a friendly cricket match, in front of the power station.

The photograph was taken looking through the wings of an aircraft to the work area beyond. A man in white overalls is bending over a work bench. Aircraft are visible in the background.

Sign for the Corporation Abbatoir. Mention of foot and mouth disease is made.

The photograph shows Major K. Harman briefing his unit before they set off to Northern Ireland on a signals training exercise.

Rear of Prince Albert statue, seen through branches covered in ice crystals.

The photograph shows goalkeeper Reg Edwards being trained by former Wolves and England star Bert Williams at Bilston sports centre.

The Reverend Stanley Holbrooke-Jones started a competition for children to guess what an unknown scene in a stained glass window represented.

The National Coal Board was investing heavily into three collieries – Lea Hall at Rugeley, Littleton in Cannock and Hem Heath near Stoke-on-Trent – where strike-defying miners were regularly going to work. Ian MacGregor is mentioned. The photograph shows

A TUC bid to disrupt operations at the pit failed as only 500 people turned up. The Coal Board is mentioned, and the photograph shows a driver turned round in the face of the rally.

Lance Bombardier Tom Stevenson from Rugeley, who worked for York Trailers in Cannock, received a tankard for being the best student on the crew commander’s course held during the regiments annual camp at Otterburn, near Newcastle. The photograph shows him