Graham Wallace from Oxford Street in Dudley and Helen Turner from Bush Road in Tipton were travelling to Berlin to represent the West Midlands and Great Britain in an international trophy competition. Mick Williams is quoted.

Fun run in fancy dress through West Bromwich and Sandwell Valley Country Park to raise money. John Sanders is mentioned, and the photograph shows Paul Quinney dressed as a clown with Siven Sanghreea and Nicola Westwood.

Summer holiday activites at the club, funded by Sandwell Council and the Black Country Development Corporation, included baking, face painting, roller skating and swimming. The photograph shows Darren Henry after baking.

The company secured a contract to supply tools for the manufacture of cycle gears in China. The photograph shows Russell Luckock, Yang Zhifeng, and Chen Yi-Xing, examining one of the presses at the factory. Raleigh Internaional, Verson HME of Darlaston, a

A working model of a chocolate making machine from 1900 was restored from the scrap yard and added to the Cadbury Collection (formerly called the Alternative Exhibition). Shown in the photograph is Roger Miles. Ron Brown and Bob Wilson are also mentioned.

Andreas Canbanis lived in Greece but spent his summer holidays with his aunt, Jean Gaunt, in Kings Heath, because he found it too hot in Greece, and he enjoyed a visit to the police station during his stay.The photograph shows Andreas wearing a police hel

A new Methodist Centre was opened by Sandwell Deputy Mayor, Councillor Brian James. The Black Country Development Corporation and Richard Taylor are mentioned, and Barry Picken is quoted. The photograph shows Sylvia Allcock in the new centre.

Children from Bournville Infants School, Linden Road, and St Hubert’s Roman Catholic Primary School, Wolverhampton Road, Oldbury, were given a VIP tour of Cadbury World as part of the Cadbury World Schools Project Challenge. Shown in the photograph with a

Dame Jocelyn travelled from London to Sandwell and Dudley railway station but was forced to travel on to Wolverhampton as she was unable to open the train door, and was an hour late for the prize-giving at Churchfields High School in West Bromwich. West M

Despite being crippled by rheumatoid arthritis which she developed when she was 16, crushing her dreams of becoming a ballerina at a London ballet school, Joanne was running her own dance school in ballet, tap and modern dance, with help from Sandra Jones