David (left) and fellow pupil Richard Green had been selected for the England public schools team to compete in a Festival of Football tournament in Skegness during the Easter holidays. Dominic Miller, Fordhouses Green in Wednesfield, Penn, and Ian Quance

John was a menmber of the David Whitfield appreciation society and he suggested erecting a plaque to the singer at the Grand Theatre. Hull and Cara Mia are mentioned. The photograph shows John (left) and Peter Clayton unveiling the plaque.

A dance was held to delebrate the unit’s fifth win in nine years of the most efficient air defence battery. The photograph shows Captain Gordon Jones, Captain David Kirkham and Warrant Officer Ernie Flounders with the trophy.

The firm earned a Queens Award for Export Achievement, which was presented by the Lord Lieutenant of the West Midlands, the Earl of Aylesford, to David Peacock. Rodney Bunyan is also in the photograph.

Noddy was the best man at the wedding of Slade’s sound engineer, Ian Newnham to Eileen Delahay of Pitfields Road. Dave Hill, Jimmy Lea, Don Powell, Brookside Close in Wombourne and Regis Hall in Reddal Hill Road, Old Hill are mentioned.

Hundreds of sirens were being removed by order of Home Office, including ones at the Royal School. The Midlands Electricity Board is mentioned, and the photograph shows Barry Thomas, Frank Dickson and Steve Roberts.

A model spaceman was erected on top of the firm’s premises, but the police mistakenly believed that it had been stolen from Walsall Arboretum. Brian Hitchman from the Gate Inn at Heathton Claverley in Shropshire and Blackpool are mentioned. The photograph

An explosion had ripped through the power nerve centre at the factoery, killing two men (Brian Howl and Donald Graham Jones) and badly burning another two (Neville Downes and John Frederick Beddow), who were in the burns unit of Birmingham Accident Hospit

A corner shop which was a former newsagents on the junction with Tower Street was being dismantled brick by brick, to be moved to the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley. Wolverhampton Council and D. S. Edgar are mentioned and Ian Walden is quoted. The

More than 50 floats were making their way through the town. Mayor George Howells and Wolverhampton Jaycees are mentioned and Paul Johnson is quoted. The photograph shows Lindsey Vigurs dressed as a clown on the Wolverhampton Museum and Art Gallery float.