Catering and domestic staff held a 24-hour strike in their fight for the hotel oweners, Bass Charrington, to recognise the Transport and General Workers Union. David Adamson and Cyril Murdoch are quoted.

Storage depot at former headquarters in Portobello, Willenhall with vehicle body pressings and lock industry goods.

This photograph includes Mander House, St Peter’s Church and the new Civic Centre being built, along with the Molineux Hotel Building and Molineux Stadium in the left corner.

Flower boxes which had been introduced to the area. The premises of Nationwide Anglia and Beatties can be seen.

Opening of a new centre for plastic fittings for the Land Rover plant in Lode Lane, Solihull. Barrie Chard is quoted and Stourport is mentioned. The photograph shows Gerald Bloom with Terry Morgan (left) and Alan Curtis (centre).

Peter Linley of Walsall Junior Chamber of Commerce heard a crown equerry complain that he could not get hold of Liverpool bits for the horses pulling the Queen’s State Coach. The photograph shows Garry Edwards completing the order.

Until recently threatened with decay, the listed building had been been renovated and improved by Peter Maddox and Associates as five individual homes. Craddocks and Thomas Foley are mentioned.

Wolverhampton Council were objecting to Mr Crosby’s summer house which he built in his garden as a project for his diploma in art and design at the Polytechnic. Councillor Phil Richards is quoted.

The introduction of new flower boxes around the square was largely criticised. The premises of Poundstretcher, O. B. C. Insurance and Britannia Building Society can be seen, with Midland and Lloyds Banks in the background.