The controversial Wolverhampton Ring Road had a sunken garden and subways in the middle of its Penn Road roundabout junction. The sunken garden in the middle of its Penn Road roundabout junctionġ0. The cost of a day's parking was going up from 5s, to 6s, for people not travelling by train, and 2s. Parking fees were set to rise - but the state of the car park remained in a poor condition, with uneven surfaces, no parking lines and bits of metal protruding from the ground reminders of the days when it used to be a shunting yard. Regular users of Wolverhampton High Level Station's car park were preparing to petition British Rail for better facilities. The British Rail car park in Station Drive, Wolverhampton, on September 4, 1969.

The British Rail car park in Station Drive, Wolverhampton, on September 4, 1969ĩ. Only minutes after the last workmen left the road, traffic wardens stepped out into the middle of the Waterloo Road/Bath Road junction and transformed the former two-way section of the ring road into a one way carriageway, and opened the new section to traffic coming up from the Chapel Ash direction to Waterloo Road. The remainder of section three of the Wolverhampton Ring Road – between Darlington Street and Waterloo Road – came smoothly into operation on July 12 1968. If you know any information about the people and stallholders featured in this image and period it was taken please get in touch via Wolverhampton Ring Road on July 12, 1968Ĩ. It was the place where people reputedly hunted at their leisure for the 'cheapest and the best' goods. It shows Wolverhampton's market taken in 1957.

This site was known as The Patch and was situated in the shadow of St Peter's Church. The Patch in the shadow of St Peter's Church in 1957Ħ. This evocative picture captured the all-night Mayfair Cafe in Stafford Street, Wolverhampton, in July, 1950.

Mayfair Cafe in Stafford Street, in July, 1950ĥ. The landmark statue of Prince Albert mounted on horseback had yet to be erected, with a cannon which had been seized in the Crimean War standing on a plinth in its place. Wolverhampton's Queen Square, or Market Square as it was then known, looking towards St Peter's Church, in around 1857.

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