From a popular country escape for Midlanders to stylish open-plan office spaces and valuables recovered from an old war memorial, these archive treasures are sure to spark nostalgia.
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Frederick Law and Sons, maltsters, Wombourne: 'Malting is a seven-day a week job for Will Chambers - and so is stoking up the furnaces that heat the kilns' - November 1970.
August 25, 1970: 'A television crew films a Tiger Moth landing at Halfpenny Green in preparation for Monday's air race.'
Edwin Preston, bell-makers, Jenner Street, Wolverhampton, June 1970: 'A mountain of hand bells ready for drilling by 16-year-old Malcolm Shaw of Bilston.'
May 7, 1970: 'Not many people turned up at the Civic Hall, Wolverhampton, to see the new illuminated results board for the local elections at last night's count.'
Walsall's four-year-old Fletcher triplets celebrate their birthday in August 1970.
A group of supporters at a meeting where Enoch Powell started his campaign in Smethwick, June 3, 1970.
Darlington Street's leaning lamppost next to the Methodist Church, Wolverhampton, pictured in January 1970.
The Clent Hills, pictured in September 1970: 'Summer scene... with trees, fine views, the tang of country air - and day trippers' cars under the grassy slopes of the Clent Hills. Here's the opportunity for thousands of Midlanders to escape the bustle of town life - and even make the switch from four wheels to "four legs and a tail."
'A complicated package from one of Wolverhampton's industries. A Dowty Boulton Paul service engineer checks a flying control unit made by his firm and installed in a Concorde wing. The company has just announced a £1m. order for flying controls for the first six production Concordes.' - July 1970.
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