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New Testament Church of God

D-EXP/P/W32/216 7 Aug 1961 Wolverhampton Archives

Members of the church, which originated in South Carolina in the 1880s, gathered at the Waterloo Road Baptist Church for their annual convention. Please note this item may contain archaic terms which we would not longer deem acceptable, and may cause offe

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Wednesbury By-election

D-EXP/P/E29/1 28 Feb 1957 Wolverhampton Archives

Mrs N. J. Anthony was casting her vote in a double-decker bus polling station at Rose Hill in Willenhall. The candidates Tapsell, Stonehouse and Wade are mentioned. This photograph was reused for a 1967 by-election, when white writing and a rectangular bo

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Old Retail Market Hall, North Street, Wolverhampton

D-EXP/P/W69/9 17 Apr 1958 Wolverhampton Archives

View of market hall with customers among stalls. There is a sign for Tate Bros visible among the lighting. There had been a protest among stallholders at the Town Council Markets Committee’s decision to raise stall rents.

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Open Market, Brickkiln Croft/School Street

D-EXP/P/W69/16 31 Dec 1960 Wolverhampton Archives

Entrance in Peel Street. Stalls are visible through the entrance railings with a “Police No Waiting” traffic cone outside, at the front of the photograph. Rolls of cloth can be seen on a stall to the left, and customers are visible.

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Rotary Ball, Wolverhampton Civic Hall

D-EXP/P/W68/6 9 May 1963 Wolverhampton Archives

Mr T. Chater in the attendants’ new maroon uniform, which replaced the black or dark blue suits worn previously, to make them more identifiable in the crowd. St Peter’s Church can be seen in the background.

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Queen Square, Wolverhampton

D-EXP/P/W1Q/26 27 Mar 1961 Wolverhampton Archives

The photograph shows Helga Coleman looking at the statue of Prince Albert, and the article relates to the statue needing a clean. There is a later article using the same photograph stating that Lady Longford’s book “Victoria R.I.”, which listed memorials

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Queen Square, Wolverhampton

D-EXP/P/W1Q/27 14 Dec 1961 Wolverhampton Archives

On the centenary of the death of Prince Albert, no tributes had appeared next to his statue. A later article states that calls to remove the Prince Albert statue in favour of a Sir Charles Wheeler version of Lady Wulfruna had been rejected. Queen Victoria

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Chapel Ash, Wolverhampton

D-EXP/P/W1C/32 5 Dec 1955 Wolverhampton Archives

The Greek temple-style toilet block and Midlands Electricity Board sub-station on the junction of Tettenhall and Compton Roads was to be taken down and replaced by a modern substitute on the corner of Merridale and Compton Roads.