Walsall
D-EXP/S/WA/94 22 May 1963 Wolverhampton Archives
Team mascot Alan Vurlam retired, with his last game being against Charlton. The photograph shows him being presented with a football by Ernie Thomas, watched by Bill Moore and the players.
D-EXP/S/WA/94 22 May 1963 Wolverhampton Archives
Team mascot Alan Vurlam retired, with his last game being against Charlton. The photograph shows him being presented with a football by Ernie Thomas, watched by Bill Moore and the players.
D-EXP/S/DE/5 1 Jan 1971 Wolverhampton Archives
Alan was due to face his former side, Aston Villa, at Fellows Park. A later caption, when he was playing for Tamworth says that he was close to scoring against Banbury.
D-EXP/P/A4/1 6 Aug 1960 Wolverhampton Archives
Wolverhampton Nuclear Disarmament Group organised a ceremony in memory of the children who died in the atomic bomb explosion at Hiroshima in Japan. The photograph shows Councillor F. Wolverson, deputy mayor of Bilston, speaking after laying a wreath.
D-EXP/P/A72/28 13 Sep 1961 Wolverhampton Archives
The photograph shows Private David Corlett of Warner Street in Codsall loading a mortar bomb into a barrel, alongside Private D. Howard of Gunstone Hall Farm in Codsall. Private Colin Whitehouse of Hilton Street in Springfields is mentioned.
D-EXP/P/A85/74 31 Jul 1957 Wolverhampton Archives
Two “chinths”, which were presented to the Battalion in Mandalay in 1925, were used at all ceremonial occasions. The photograph shows Anne Hickton, the granddaughter of Alderman Sir Cliff Tibbitts looking up at one of the figures.
D-EXP/P/A85/67 5 Jun 1957 Wolverhampton Archives
Sergeant Beckett’s wife and family had joined him on the ship for the return home. Athens and Bilston are mentioned. The photograph shows (from left) Angela Beckett, Sergeant James holding Mary, Johnnie and Margaret.
D-EXP/P/W31/70 10 Mar 1959 Wolverhampton Archives
During demolition and alteration work, an old gas chandelier was found from Wolverhampton’s first cinema, which opened in 1909. The photograph shows Bill Blower holding the item.
D-EXP/R/RQE/100 20 Sep 1967 Wolverhampton Archives
Her Majesty the Queen named the Q4 “Queen Elizabeth II”, although the launch did not quite go to plan. John Rennie of John Brown and Cunard are mentioned.
D-EXP/R/RQE/65 24 May 1962 Wolverhampton Archives
The photograph shows Lynne Diane Masefield of Rakegate Infants School presenting the Queen with a bouquet on behalf of the schoolchildren of the borough, with Mayor Alderman M. Birch alongside.
D-EXP/P/W4/7 22 Aug 1958 Wolverhampton Archives
A 900-year-old Norman chest, hollowed out of a trunk of an oak tree, was believed to be the oldest object in the town, and the church used it for church plate, money and vestments. The photograph shows Prebendary N. W. Watson examining the chest.