William Henry Sandland, 1956 - 1957

A toolmaker by trade, William Henry Sandland was elected to Bilston Borough Council in May 1950. He lived at 3 Tryon Place, Bilston, and represented Bradley Ward. His mayoral year was from 1956 to 1957. On 24th November 1956, on behalf of the borough, he received a memorial to John Wilkinson, the founder of the Black Country's first blast furnace at Bradley in 1767. The memorial was erected in Great Bridge Playing Fields and unveiled by Amos Hunt of the Bilston Historical Society.