A hot plate levelling and roller straightening machine that was being supplied to Krupp of West Germany, to be installed at the Egyptian Iron and Steel Company mill at Hadisolb near Cairo.

George was a long-standing member of the Wolverhampton Communist Party. Mao and the Iron Curtain are mentioned.

An iron cupola stands amid bomb damaged buildings. The side of the brick building on the right shows some damage but there is more at the back and side.

The photograph is looking in through the market hall entrance with a good view of the decorated wrought iron gates. Francis Nicholls Ltd. signs are clearly visible, with stacked up produce and the rear of a trailer.

Fourteen people pose in front of two houses damaged by a bomb. In front of them are the twisted corrugated iron sides and roof of an Anderson shelter that was damaged by a bomb only a few minutes after its inhabitants had left it.

Walsall Council had ruled that an iron gate blocking a public right of way in Victory Lane, from Armstrong Drive to Reedswood Park, had to be taken down. Michael Barrett of Reedswood Residents’ Association is quoted. The photograph shows Malcolm (left) wi

Workers were racing avainst time to repair the cast-iron Victoria bridge at Arley in time for the start of the new season. Alun Rees is quoted, and Robert Powell and English Heritage are mentioned. The photograph shows Glyn Cotterill on the bridge.

About 300 members came from the West Midlands to volunteer for maintenance work on the railway. Kenneth Fenton of Heath Lane in Stourbridge, Midland Iron at Cradley Heath, Dudley Councillor Mercia Fenton, Caroline Fenton, Ralph Russell of Birch Coppice in

After workers lost their jobs at Saltercast, a new company was formed by Ivan Hulme and David Westley. John Patel and Paul Saini are quoted and Burco Motor Cylinders (West Bromwich) and the Ford Motor Company are mentioned.

Ernest was attacked by a drunken man, Kenneth Scotter, with an iron cross as he visited his wife’s grave in Stafford Cemetery, and it was only the thought of his six daughters who kept him alive. His daughter Lorraine is quoted.