17 nostalgic pictures from 1970s Wolverhampton - including lost offices of Goodyear and Tarmac

Many reflect the industry of the time and include lost landmarks, such as the front entrance to Goodyear and the extensive Tarmac headquarters.

Others offer a snapshot in time, with a general view of Tettenhall Road, Dudley Street or one of Wolverhampton's markets.

And there are many pictures of factory floors, many of them long disappeared, but fondly remembered by generations of former workers.

Some of these pictures come with detailed captions, and others are more of a mystery,.

But as a snapshot of life some 50 years ago, they are all fascinating in their own right.

The pictures come from the Express & Star photo archive, a culmination of a long-term partnership project to preserve historic images from the newspaper.

The Midland News Association, Wolverhampton City Archives, and the University of Wolverhampton came together in a partnership in 2008 to preserve this collection and make it freely accessible to the public.

We garnered support from local residents, community and heritage groups and businesses through our outreach activity and we were successful in gaining support from Heritage Lottery Fund in 2014 to digitise a number of photographs and produce this website.

Many of them are based around business, but there are also fascinating portraits of some of the characters that have made this region so special over many decades into the past.

You can access the images yourself - and search for thousands of other pictures - at https://photo-archive.expressandstar.co.uk/.