A slate dome was being restored on the top of the Prudential Insurance Company building, after the original and third storey of the building were destroyed by bombs during the Second World War. Roy Stafford is quoted.

The firm’s men’s team, who played in the Wolverhampton Sunday League, received a challenge from their female colleagues, with the women winning 4 – 3.5 (the women’s goals counted double and the men’s goals half). Gordon Swan is mentioned. Please note this

A portrait borrowed from Wolverhampton Art Gallery was to be exhibited alongside a picture from the Queen’s private collection at Buxton Festival in Derbyshire in an exhibition entitled “Thirty Different Likenesses”. Lichfield, Bill Berisford, Sir Laurenc

Scouts were sending radio messages all over the world as part of their annual West Midlands county conference, with a message sent by the United Kingdom’s Chief Scout Sir William Gladstone in Wolverhampton to an Australian Scout on an expedition in the An

45 trophies were presented to secondary school teams and individual prize winners for football, netball, cross-country, hockey, athletics, basketball, table tennis, tennis, rounders, sailing and swimming. The photograph shows Colin Nimmo of Wolverhampton

Territorial Army volunteers were taking part in a two-week training exercise in Germany. The photograph shows cooks Corporal John Garbett of Bloxwich (left) and Tom Cox from Gloucester (second left) dishing up rations to (from left) Sapper Fred Wall from