A view of the outdoor and indoor Retail markets which shows stalls and crowds of shoppers. The entrance to the market subway can be seen. Also visible, in the background, are St Peter’s Church, Darlington Street Methodist Church, and the Market Car Park.

These photographs have been catalogued and digitised thanks to the kind generosity and support of the Friends of Wolverhampton Archives.

Traders were fighting the market reconstruction plans. George Latham is quoted and the Retail Fruit Trade Federation is mentioned.

The photo shows crowds of people milling round, with Beacon radio broadcasting in the background. The former Woolpack Restaurant is mentioned.

Workmen giving a spring clean to the Market Hall had found the town’s original coat-of-arms when they took down boarding which had covered the archways.

The penultimate day on the Market Patch as the traders were moving to new premises. The photograph includes a sign saying “Sidney Gatt, Stalls 41 to 82 in the new market”.

Includes the church, the market building itself, and market stalls and customers, as well as a horse and cart in the foreground.

View looking towards North Street and the old Education Offices. The photograph shows a large banner that reads “Mass X-Ray Unit”, adjacent to St Peter & St Paul’s Catholic Church on the right, with vehicles in the foreground. A white van belonging to J.

The area was known as the Market Patch.The photograph shows St Peters Church and St Peters House in the background, and crowds among the stalls. There is a couple with a child in a pram talking to a policeman in the foreground.

The photograph shows litter at the end of a day’s trading. Piled wooden crates appear on the street, with the name of J. T. Kelmsley (London), H. Goodall Ltd, and J. C. Firth Ltd visible on them. There are bits of vegetables, string and paper lying about.