17 nostalgic pictures from 1970s Wolverhampton - including lost offices of Goodyear and Tarmac

Here are 17 pictures of Wolverhampton that will take you back to the 1970s, all taken from the Express & Star archive collection.

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Many reflect the industry of the time and include lost landmarks, such as the front entrance to Goodyear and the extensive Tarmac headquarters.

Others offer a snapshot in time, with a general view of Tettenhall Road, Dudley Street or one of Wolverhampton's markets.

And there are many pictures of factory floors, many of them long disappeared, but fondly remembered by generations of former workers.

Some of these pictures come with detailed captions, and others are more of a mystery,.

But as a snapshot of life some 50 years ago, they are all fascinating in their own right.

1978 - A mysterious patch of turf had appeared in the street. The photograph shows Helen Jarrams (left) and Anne Collings.

The landmark entrance to Goodyear in a picture from the mid 1970s

Tony Hampton on a numerical control lathe at Fischer Bearings Co. Ltd, 1979

Craneprint, Dale Street, Bilston, 1979. The photograph shows inside the print shop.

Open Market, Brickkiln Croft/School Street, 1978

Young Women’s Christian Association event in 1978, a tree planting of some sort

Healey Mouldings Ltd, Oldbury - Rupert Blackwood operating a new injection moulding machine in 1979

Tony Taylor (top) and John Williams working with the cutting and creasing machine at Baldwins, box and carton makers, 1978

Fafnir Bearings Ltd, Wolverhampton, 1979 - Alan Bate keeping the production line going.

1973 - Gracemere Fork Lift depot, Old Heath Road, Wolverhampton.
Bernard Robert with Bill Johnson and part of the hire fleet. — 1973 - Gracemere Fork Lift depot, Old Heath Road, Wolverhampton. Bernard Robert with Bill Johnson and part of the hire fleet.

L. Nicklin, sheet metal firm, pictured in 1975. The image shows Barrie Henly going over a working drawing on the shop floor with (second left) Ted Waterfield, Ezra Thornton and Arthur Drew.

GPO Girls’ Football Team in 1973.The photograph shows Lesley Pearce, Ruby Lloyd, Carol Ward, Ann Rutter, Janice Wilkiss, Janice Stevenson, Linda Morgan, Gillian Fern and Susan Pritchard at training.

The pictures come from the Express & Star photo archive, a culmination of a long-term partnership project to preserve historic images from the newspaper.

The Midland News Association, Wolverhampton City Archives, and the University of Wolverhampton came together in a partnership in 2008 to preserve this collection and make it freely accessible to the public.

We garnered support from local residents, community and heritage groups and businesses through our outreach activity and we were successful in gaining support from Heritage Lottery Fund in 2014 to digitise a number of photographs and produce this website.

Many of them are based around business, but there are also fascinating portraits of some of the characters that have made this region so special over many decades into the past.

You can access the images yourself - and search for thousands of other pictures - at https://photo-archive.expressandstar.co.uk/.