Residents planned to take Dudley Council to the Ombudsman after Planning sent letters concerning a proposed new Netto superstore at the back of their gardens to homes in Redwood Road by mistake. Daisy Street, Maureen and Gil Lock, Jean and John Hill, Kath

Major expansion programme, including regional sales offices. The photograph shows David Jewkes (right) with (from left), Graham Cartwright, Ron Jarvis, Bob Dyke, Mike Austin, John Millard, Dorothy Bateman and Andrew Kempton.

Opening of one of the most advanced purpose-built materials testing laboratories in the UK, by parent company Southdown X-Ray Services. The photograph shows Stephen Southall monitoring a tensile test on a steel bar using the Universal Test Machine.

A team of Japanese engineers from the Kawasaki Steel Corporation visiting to commission new monitoring equipment. Pictured are (from left) Mark Dimmock, Chikao Kawahara, Toshiaki Kasuya, Paul Groves, Norio Knoya and Yukio Muraoka.

Gas-fired heating units receiving their final checks before being send to the South African Iron and Steel Industrial Corporation. A. E. Griffiths (Smethwick) Limited is mentioned.

A 120-ton capacity hydraulic bloom pusher, completed under licence from Moeller and Neuman GmbH., St. Ingbert-Saar, Germany, and built to the order of Priest Furnaces Ltd of Middlesborough, destined for the Guest Keen Iron and Steel Works, Cardiff.

A group of steelworkers defied management sintructions by bringing a furnace back into operation which had been taken out of service, as they regarded its closure as a threat to their jobs. Councillor Denis Turner of the Bilston Liaison Committee is menti

Female workers received City and Guilds awards for various metal casting operations, from left, Judith Clewes, Jacqueline Stockle, Amanda Ridley and Rona McMillan

Each employee received a silver salver at Christmas to celebrate the firm’s centenary. Workers at the factory each took home a Christmas present, to celebrate the firm’s centenary. The German Thyssen Corporation is mentioned, and the photograph shows John

A group of ex-steelworkers from Round Oak formed their own company after graduating from a retraining course run by Lloyds British of Cradley Road, Netherton. Paradise, Dudley, and Dudley Council are mentioned. Jack Cooper is quoted, and the photograph in