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15 nostalgic photos in and around Cannock from the 1980s to spark memories

Here we take a look back at life in and around Cannock during the 1980s.

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By Tania Taylor
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From a TV crew setting up to film a popular Sunday show, to wartime nurses gathering for a reunion, teenagers helping to maintain war graves and a five-year-old learning to play the trombone, we hope you enjoy this gallery of pictures from the Express & Star’s archives. 

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November 5, 1980: 'Keeping out the way of TV technicians and the miles of electric cables are Mrs Margaret Taylor and Mrs Phyllis Parsons, seen busy arranging flowers for BBC's Songs of Praise from St Luke's Church, Cannock on Sunday.
November 5, 1980: 'Keeping out the way of TV technicians and the miles of electric cables are Mrs Margaret Taylor and Mrs Phyllis Parsons, seen busy arranging flowers for BBC's Songs of Praise from St Luke's Church, Cannock on Sunday.
July 1980: 'Heads down for some serious summer work as German teenagers clean nameplates in the German military cemetery on Cannock Chase. Each summer parties come from sports youth organisations in the Bremen area to help graves maintenance... Apart from the cemetery work, they make goodwill and sightseeing trips around Staffordshire and the Midlands. The cemetery contains over 5,000 German servicemen who died in and around Britain during the two world wars.'
July 1980: 'Heads down for some serious summer work as German teenagers clean nameplates in the German military cemetery on Cannock Chase. Each summer parties come from sports youth organisations in the Bremen area to help graves maintenance... Apart from the cemetery work, they make goodwill and sightseeing trips around Staffordshire and the Midlands. The cemetery contains over 5,000 German servicemen who died in and around Britain during the two world wars.'
Some of the young German teenagers from the Bremen sports youth party using a pressure spray to clean headstones in August 1980.
Some of the young German teenagers from the Bremen sports youth party using a pressure spray to clean headstones in 1980.
'Huffing and puffing without much success is five-year-old Miranda Harthill of Springhill Road, Rugeley. Showing her the trombone is Sergeant Major Pete Smith, of Leek, a member of the Staffordshire Regiment band. The band is on a summer tour of Staffordshire and Miranda met them when they visited their town.' - July 1980.
'Huffing and puffing without much success is five-year-old Miranda Harthill of Springhill Road, Rugeley. Showing her the trombone is Sergeant Major Pete Smith, of Leek, a member of the Staffordshire Regiment band. The band is on a summer tour of Staffordshire and Miranda met them when they visited their town.' - July 1980.