This nostalgic collection of pictures captures life across the city in 1968.
From bird's eye views to historic buildings, the gallery offers a glimpse of Wolverhampton’s streets 58 years ago.
Enjoy this trip down memory lane from the Express & Star archives, and share your own memories in the comments.
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Worcester Street junction, Wolverhampton, in July 1968
March 2, 1968, and aerial view across Wolverhampton, the caption reads: 'Although the Mander Centre, Wolverhampton, was formally opened by the Mayor, Alderman E Y Fullwood today, and while the tower office block to the centre is partly occupied, the centre is still very much a shell plus much-needed parking for about 550 cars. Really what was opened today is a series of pedestrian walkways through the centre. Two or three shops are ready for business. Many more are to come, but for some time the centre will be a place of vacant boxes that one day will be shops. Among those to come include a 54,000 square feet department store for Owen Owen, a Tesco supermarket, and a Timothy White and Taylors shop, to name but a few.'
This picture dates from June 1968 and shows the Sight and Sound Education touch-typing school in Broad Street, Wolverhampton. The accompanying caption said in part: 'The first batch of students passed out of a new touch-typing school in Wolverhampton today - only 12 days after the course started. The school teaches typing by a new method which can bring pupils up to the same level of proficiency after 12 daily lessons of one hour each, as they would reach by learning to type by other methods in 18 months.'
The Queen's ballroom, Wolverhampton, when it closed, the original caption reads: 'Wolverhampton's only full time ballroom, the Queen's, closed on New Year's Eve and now the town's teenagers must travel elsewhere if they want to go dancing.' The poster on the right seems to read: 'Top Rank Dancing. Owing to unforeseen difficulties we regret to announce the closure of the Queens Ballroom effective from 30th Dec, 1968.'
Circa 1968, an aerial view of Wolverhampton, with the Beatties store lower left, and as work on the Mander Centre is under way.
February 7, 1968: 'Precautions against foot and mouth were being used at Wolverhampton cattle market yesterday which was opened for the first time since foot and mouth restrictions came into force in November.'
The dismantling of Wolverhampton's historic first traffic lights in 1968.
