Irene Coley operating an electric welding machine.

The completion of a chain for the Q4. The photograph shows Victor Hill who worked on chains for the Queen Elizabeth in 1938.

Alice Griffiths using a modern machine.

Chain cable for an Esso tanker being built at St Nazaire, France. Esso International Group, Japan, German, France, the Euro Group in Birmingham and the Queen Elizabeth II are mentioned.

Mr W. Lee (right) and Bernard Harrison examining a polished chain before it was despatched.

Rachel Hickman demonstrating the old way of making chain.

Testing a chain.

Gerald had been invested into one of the oldest gastronomic organisations in the world, having been given the grade of Chevalier in the Confrerie de la Chaine des Rotisseurs (the GUild of Turning Spit Roasters), at the Imperial Hotel in Torquay. Paris, th

Mike Smith, a former constable in the Worcestershire force, was sworn in as Mayor at Kidderminster Town Hall, and Robert received the chain of office as new Liberal Democrat Mayor. Wyre Forest Council, the GMB, Councillor Val Pargeter, the Labour Party, C

Viv, who lived at The Broadway in Walsall, took over from Elna Phillips and was handed her chain of office at the County Hotel in Walsall. The British Heart Foundation is mentioned.