Workers went on strike after three of their colleagues (Khan Ustar, Joginder Pal and Khan Alais) were sent home as a result of a pay dispute. George Worsey is quoted and Ralph Taylor is mentioned.

New public toilets which were built in vandal-proof stainless steel were opened in a shopping precinct. The photograph shows Councillor Matt Redmond opening the new super-loos, with Beatrice Clemson alongside.

Bilston shopkeepers were worried that the town and their businesses would not survive into the new year, because of the high rates, the recession, and the closure of the British Steel plant. The photograph shows Frank Greaves.

The Round Oak steelworks is mentioned. The photograph shows (left) Mike Harper of Kingswinford and Dave Green of Brierley Hill learning roof tiling techniques.

The company was to take over an empty ex-Ductile Steel headquarters building in Planetary Road, Willenhall. Dennis Hickman, Cleveland, Bristol, and the Department of Trade and Industry are mentioned.

The new bright drawing shop showing in the foreground a Samuel Platt patented hydraulically-driven two-roll, variable angle variable speed bar straightening machine.

Visitors to the plant being shown a working model of a furnace by Reg Marsh. Norman Price and British Steel are mentioned.

Pat Grainger examining a stainless steel ice-cream making plant.

Closure of factory. Dawn Whittaker, Joan Nicholls, May Smout and Marie Philpotts are quoted, and the photograph shows Jackie Pearson

Fred Steel and John Jentgen with love birds Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI. Each month the birds were presented to the production team with the poorest record, to be cared for by that team for a month.