Wolverhampton is one of the best cities in the United Kingdom. The city grew initially as a market town specializing in the wool trade and became a center of mining, manufacturing during the industrial revolution. The population of the city is over a quarter of a million and the natives of the city are called “Wulfrunians”. Wolverhampton became a metropolitan borough in 1974 and became the city on 18th December 2000.
A large influx of immigrants settled in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. The center of Wolverhampton has been altered radically since the mid-1960s, with the Mander Centre (plans for which were unveiled on 15 April 1965) being opened in two phases, the first in 1968 and the second in 1971.
Here below are some stunning vintage photos of Wolverhampton from the 1970s and 1980s, capturing streets, roads, landmarks, and everyday life.
#1 Queen Street, 1979
#2 Chapel Ash, September 1976
#3 Hordern Road, May 1984
#4 At the junction of North Street and Queen Square, with the town hall in the background. 3rd June 1985
#5 The Victoria Street entrance to Wolverhampton’s shopping precinct, the Mander Centre, with Beattie’s department store opposite. 5th April 1975.
#6 Junction of Victoria Street and Queen Square on 23rd July 1986.
#7 Corner shop at the junction of Waterloo Road and Staveley Road, Wolverhampton on 28th December 1980.
#8 School Street, February 1978
#9 Junction of Lord Street and Merridale Road on 8th June 1980
#10 Clarendon Hotel, December 1977
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I remember that wallpaper so well! The clarendon Folk Club with the late Bill Caddick, Adrian O’Conner and John Burgess all gone from us now.
#11 Junction of Darlington Street and Red Lion Street, May 1984
#12 Queen Square, April 1975
#13 Wolverhampton, March 1979 Overturned car at the Ring Road: Chapel Ash roundabout
#14 Anti-racist demonstrators assemble in Cleveland Road, Wolverhampton, prior to marching through the town centre. 11th March 1978
#15 Railway Street, April 1975
#16 The Posada, December 1983
#17 Pedestrians crossing the junction of Darlington Street and Red Lion Street on 30th May 1984.
#18 Darlington Street, 1979
#19 Prosser Street, Park Village, November 1983
#20 Fowler’s Park, April 1975
#21 Cleveland Street, November 1980
#22 Bushbury, June 1982
#23 Chelsea Football Fans, May 1977
#24 The True Briton, Bilston Street, on 25th February 1979
#25 A group of policemen wait on Wolverhampton ring road prior to the passing of an anti-racist demonstration procession. 11th March 1978
#26 June 1983 Wulfruna Street
#27 Lord Street, June 1980
#28 We Can Make It, April 1984
#29 The Royal Oak, Compton Road, July 1977
#30 Tipton Gasworks – the junction of Alexandra Road and Locarno Road, 10th February 1980
#31 Anti-racist demonstrators, March 1978
#32 Office workers returning to work after lunch. Darlington Street, 30th May 1984
#33 Wolverhampton, June 1980
#34 Cleveland Street, 11th March 1978.
#35 Corner shop at the junction of Waterloo Road and Staveley Road, Wolverhampton on 28th December 1980.
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newhampton road and the shop is on the corner of riches street