The Alrewas Civic Society were doing development work along the riverside, which was due to be officially opened by the chairman of Lichfield Rural Council, Arnold Ward. The photograph shows a gentleman and two children sitting on a bench by the river.

Parish Councillors were looking at the legal position of putting up lifesize cardboard cutouts of policemen by the busy road to make it safer, after a resident saw a similar scheme working on the continent. Councillor George Arblaster and the Department o

Heavy lorries, including brewery lorries, which used the street as an alternative route were causing cracks to appear in the walls and window frames of the village’s historic black and white buildings. Councillor Margaret Stanhope, Park Road, Alrewas Cons