A group of volunteers abseiled down the 160 foot building to raise money for Help the Aged. Chambers is mentioned. The photograph shows Clair Kisby from Chancellors wine bar.

Doctors were forced to amputate the leg of a worker who was trapped in a clay-mixing machine. North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary in Stoke on Trent is mentioned.

Tarmac had purchased a sprayer to squirt water into the quarry and avoid dust being blown into neighbouring homes and schools. The River Tame is mentioned. The photograph shows John Horsnall and Alun Hughes with the sprayer in action in the background.

More than ten acres of council-owned land had been sold at auction for £2.1 million, a saleroom record, to McLean Homes. Brian Wilson and Tarmac are mentioned. The image is a plan of the site.

The proposed dismantling of a crane by Tarmac, the new owners of the site,was condemned by the Labour Party, including Spring Vale Labour Councillor Alan Garner.

The Don and Roy Richardson consortium planned to turn the tyre plant into a business, industry and shopping complex near Spaghetti Junction.

Webbing bands being used to raise a casualty on to a stretcher. Tarmac had been dug up from Queen Square to make exercises more realistic.

The photograph shows a mix of modern and Victorian buildings, including the skyscraper Tarmac building (bottom right) and the Darlington Street Methodist Church (top, centre).

The start of open-cast mining on the former steelworks site by British Coal. The Richardson Brothers of Oldbury and Tarmac of Wolverhampton are mentioned.

An office block built for Artagen Properties at the junction of Waterloo Road would be occupied by Tarmac Ltd.