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St Michael and All Angel’s Church, Penkridge

D-EXP/P/C12/153 7 Feb 1975 Wolverhampton Archives

South Africa wanted to reclaim a hammered iron chancel screen, originally made in Holland and used as an entrance gate to a Boer farm in South Africa. William Littleton is mentioned. The photograph shows Reverend Robert Cheadle and John Rostance looking a

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Hughes & Spencer Steel, Stourbridge

D-EXP/P/I28/86 8 Apr 1992 Wolverhampton Archives

The firm was planning to widen its customer base after receiving the BS 5750 quality award. Howard E. Perry of Willenhall is mentioned, and Klaus Wasmuht (right) and Neil Webb are pictured.

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Corngreaves Hall, Cradley Heath

D-EXP/P/C19/2 3 Dec 1969 Wolverhampton Archives

A metal gate had been erected across the driveway, blocking people from using it as a short cut between the Corngreaves Hall estate and ironfounders G. Clancey Ltd. Thomas Billingham of Timbertree Crescent and Mr L. G. Palmer are quoted, and Warley Counci

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St Martin’s Place, Stafford

D-EXP/P/S39/16 9 Jun 1972 Wolverhampton Archives

Les Walklate of the Chains Inn paid a 5p a year ring rate to Stafford Corporation for an iron ring which was lifted to deliver beer into the cellars, and he questioned whether the postage etc was worth it.

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J & J Siddons, iron foundry, Howard Street, Hill Top, West Bromwich

D-EXP/P/I51/60 18 Mar 1991 Wolverhampton Archives

The firm were the first foundry to receive an award from Lansing Linde of Basingstoke, in recognition of the quality levels reached in the supply of casting for manufacturing forklift trucks. The photograph shows (left to right) Clive Hawley, Andrew Siddo

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Bayliss, Jones & Bayliss Ltd, heavy engineering, Cable Street, Wolverhampton

D-EXP/P/I32/28 15 Jul 1966 Wolverhampton Archives

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.

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British Steel, Round Oak Steelworks, Brierley Hill

D-EXP/P/I32/231 23 Dec 1982 Wolverhampton Archives

In 1969 during a strike by ISTC technical branch staff, a frying pan went missing and it did not reappear until the closure of the works. Bill Sirs, the Iron and Steel Trades Confederations and the Express & Star are mentioned, and the photograph shows la

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British Steel, Bilston Steelworks Site

D-EXP/P/I32/362 21 Jun 1994 Wolverhampton Archives

Tarmac was facing a large bill to clear contamination and drainage problems on the redundant site. The photograph shows Labour Councillor and ex-steelworker Bert Turner looking over site.

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2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment

D-EXP/P/W95S/6 13 Oct 1947 Wolverhampton Archives

The only checkpost on the western side of Russia’s Iron Curtain. Lieutenant Colonel D. B. Pike of Wrottesley Road, Tettenhall, Lieutenant-Colonel W. Byford-Jones (news editor of the Express and Star) and Corporal J. Price are mentioned. The photograph sho