The mother of four divorced her husband without his knowledge as she did not want to spoil his Christmas, and she pleaded not guily at Wolverhampton Crown Court to forging a document in the divorce proceedings and committing perjury by falsely swearing th

As well as being a sales manager for a Midlands steel company, Tony made violins, and he was working on an instrument based on a violin made by Giuseppe Guarneri, which was loaned to him by Kyung-Wha Chung. The photograph shows Tony with his faughter, Fra

Miss Rowley’s father had played the clarinet in orchestras at Wolverhampton’s Hippodrome, Theatre Royal and the Queen’s Ballroom in Queen Square, and she was still using the instruments 50 years later.

Captain Pat Grimason, secretary of the RNLI Abersoch, reported on the work of the lifeboat ‘Wolverhampton’, bought by the people of Wolverhampton. Treasurer Roy Timms reported on money raised and cheques were presented from South Staffordshire District C

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

The Prince Albert statue was being fitted with new bronze reins, after the original set were broken off by a drunken reveller on VE Day. Queen Victoria is mentioned, and the photograph shows Nick Morris with the statue.

Civilian workers staged a one-day strike as part of a national protest in support of a pay claim. The Transport and General Workers’ Union, the Defence Ministry, RAF Stafford, Ron Lovatt, Donnington, Telford and Salop are mentioned. The photograph shows G

Hundreds of Staffordshire coal miners had ignored the pleas of their union leaders and crossed picket lines to start work. Littleton Colliery in Cannock, Hem Heath Colliery near Stoke-on-Trent, South Wales and the Coal Board are mentioned. The photograph

More than 200 minters rebelled against the picket line and returned to work. The photograph shows, waiting for the pithead cage (left to right) Des Hartshorn, Gerald Davies, Roy Littlehales, Steve Ford, Dave Bickley and Pete Milligan.

Miners’ wives were asking shoppers for donations of food to assist pit families on the breadline. Nancy Cooper of Woodlands Way in Handsacre in Rugeley is quoted, and Bernard Jackson, the Wolverhampton Miners’ Support Group, and Littleton and Lea Collieri