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Wolverhampton 1973: See how many familiar faces you can spot in our retro photo gallery

Take a look through this gallery of faces from Wolverhampton in 1973 and see if you recognise anyone.

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By Tania Taylor
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From schoolchildren to market traders - we hope this selection of photos from the Express & Star archive brings you a smile!

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nostalgia pic. Wolverhampton. A queue to see Morecambe and Wise at Wolverhampton in March 1973. This was a print in the Express and Star picture archive at Queen Street, Wolverhampton, and the caption pasted to the back reads: 'Mile long queues revived Beatlemania in Wolverhampton town centre today, as thousands of people besieged the Gaumont Cinema for tickets to see Morecambe and Wise. By lunchtime, hundreds of tickets had gone. And manager Mr Colin Hunter said: 'At this rate, I shouldn't be surprised if the 7,600 seats available were gone by the end of the day.' Mr Hunter and six of his staff worked flat out all morning coping with ticket demands for the two shows on March 30 and 31. An employee added: 'People started queueing at about 9.30 this morning - in 21 years, I've never seen anything like this before.' The print has the Express and Star copyright stamp and a datestamp for March 2, 1973, which will be when taken. The photographer was 'JJ' which will be Johnnie Johnson. The print has stamps indicating it was used as a letters page nostalgia picture on December 13, 2004 and September 4, 2008. Wolverhampton queues. Library code: Wolverhampton nostalgia 2024.
A queue to see Morecambe and Wise at Wolverhampton in March 1973. The caption reads: 'Mile long queues revived Beatlemania in Wolverhampton town centre today, as thousands of people besieged the Gaumont Cinema for tickets to see Morecambe and Wise. By lunchtime, hundreds of tickets had gone. And manager Mr Colin Hunter said: 'At this rate, I shouldn't be surprised if the 7,600 seats available were gone by the end of the day.' Mr Hunter and six of his staff worked flat out all morning coping with ticket demands for the two shows on March 30 and 31. An employee added: 'People started queueing at about 9.30 this morning - in 21 years, I've never seen anything like this before.'
Wolverhampton cheerleaders for TV's It's A Knockout in April 1973.
Wolverhampton cheerleaders for TV's It's A Knockout in April 1973.