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Malthouse Engineering, steel fabrication, Oldbury

D-EXP/P/I35/12 3 Jan 1986 Wolverhampton Archives

Management buy-out set up by Roy Taylor with backing from Barclays Bank. The photograph shows (from left) John Rhodes of Deloitte Haskins and Sells, Ron Reavette, Cecil Buckett from DHS and Simon Ranshaw of Edge Ellison Hatwell and Pritchett.

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John Harper & Co. Ltd, ironfounders, Willenhall

D-EXP/P/I28/118 4 Jan 1975 Wolverhampton Archives

Long serving staff were presented with gold watches. Harry Anderson, Bob Leek, Miss I. M. Stanhope and Wilfred Harper are mentioned.

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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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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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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

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W. L. Byers and Co., Ltd., chainmakers, Cradley Heath

D-EXP/P/I40/262 5 Apr 1962 Wolverhampton Archives

The firm was probably the only firm in the country to still make chains by the side welding method. The photograph shows (left to right) W. Ward, A. Ward and R. Edwards welding the wrought iron link together with a double hafted hammer.

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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.