The 60's.
Wolverhampton in the 50's and 60's.
Pictured left
Queen square notice the Queens ballroom and the lack of traffic. This picture was taken during the 1950's when it was still a cinema.
Wolverhampton was a great place to grow up during the 50's and 60's. As a kid i had an interest in the railways and the town was then a Mecca for trainspotters having not only two working stations but an assembly of sheds and workshops for repairing and building locomotives. By the time i had started Regis i had discovered girls and in that respect the town was a great place for a teenager on the lookout. We had at least two decent dance halls and plenty of cinema's for watching the latest James Bond film or such like. Out in Tettenhall there were still plenty of green spaces, all the way from Danescourt on the one side of School to Perton with its old airforce airfield and out buildings where one could play. Down in Castlecroft where i lived there were the fields looking all the way across to Tettenhall station and on the horizon the chimney stacks of cautaulds. Down the bottom of Windmill crescent lay the old sand quarry leading down to the canal. Along the canal to the west was Trescott where we would often walk returning via the ford at Trescott and the Bridgenorth road.
Queen square notice the Queens ballroom and the lack of traffic. This picture was taken during the 1950's when it was still a cinema.
Wolverhampton was a great place to grow up during the 50's and 60's. As a kid i had an interest in the railways and the town was then a Mecca for trainspotters having not only two working stations but an assembly of sheds and workshops for repairing and building locomotives. By the time i had started Regis i had discovered girls and in that respect the town was a great place for a teenager on the lookout. We had at least two decent dance halls and plenty of cinema's for watching the latest James Bond film or such like. Out in Tettenhall there were still plenty of green spaces, all the way from Danescourt on the one side of School to Perton with its old airforce airfield and out buildings where one could play. Down in Castlecroft where i lived there were the fields looking all the way across to Tettenhall station and on the horizon the chimney stacks of cautaulds. Down the bottom of Windmill crescent lay the old sand quarry leading down to the canal. Along the canal to the west was Trescott where we would often walk returning via the ford at Trescott and the Bridgenorth road.