|A one-week appeal at Cascade Bingo at High Street, West Bromwich, enabled staff and customers to raise cash to buy 75 teddy bears for the children’s ward. The photograph shows Adrian Gittins surrounded by teddy bears.

Arthur Weston was a radio operator on a motor launch off Omaha, and watched thousands of Americans on the beaches, climbing the cliffs and advancing under a hail of machine gun fire. The photograph shows Arthur with a copy of “Navy News” featuring Operati

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.

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.

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

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

The Company had won awards at the Birmingham Festival of Acting and Museical Entertainment for the fourth year running for the musical written by Paul Marks, which would now be entered into the Midland round of the All England Theatre Festival at the Old

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