
Wolverhampton Centenary Exhibition, Civic Hall, Wolverhampton
D-EXP/P/W74/11 23 Apr 1948 Wolverhampton Archives
Juvenile Employment Service Stand with pictures of various jobs men and women could be trained in.
D-EXP/P/W74/11 23 Apr 1948 Wolverhampton Archives
Juvenile Employment Service Stand with pictures of various jobs men and women could be trained in.
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The National Coal Board’s theme at the exhibition was “Coal is Food”. The stand also presented the development of coal mining since nationalisation. The photograph shows Lord Hyndley and Sir Ben Smith on the left, talking to Albert Parkes of Hilton Main C
D-EXP/P/W74/13 23 Apr 1948 Wolverhampton Archives
The Wolverhampton Corporation Transport Department Stand featured an electrically driven double decker trolley bus running round an island.
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The first dress rehearsal. The photograph shows ladies representing Lady Wulfruna and her attendants.
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A poster to promote the Wolverhampton Centenary Pageant, which ran from 22 May to 5 June and began at 7pm.
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Donald Waltho and Norma Minshall were the scene announcers during the Pageant, marking the passage of time from 950 AD to 1948.
D-EXP/P/W74/18 28 May 1948 Wolverhampton Archives
Aileen Hill dressed as Lady Wulfruna. King Ethelred awarded Lady Wulfruna the land on which Wolverhampton was built.
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The South Staffordshire Regiment trumpeters from Whittington Barracks, Lichfield, playing the fanfare in front of a statue of Wolverhampton’s first Mayor, George Benjamin Thorneycroft.
D-EXP/P/W74/25 21 May 1948 Wolverhampton Archives
D-EXP/P/W74/26 21 May 1948 Wolverhampton Archives
The decorations included a banner with the words “One Hundred Years of Progress”.