Queen Victoria's Visit to Wolverhampton

Further Sources

The following items are available for consultation in our public search room:

Wolverhampton Borough Council minutes 16th November 1866
(CMB-WOL-C-COU/4)

Municipal Life of Wolverhampton GH Jones 1903 pages 142-143 (L9)

Photograph of the coal arch that was erected near the railway station (V1/VIC/4)

The Illustrated London News 8th December 1866 (L9p)

Wolverhampton Chronicle

Official programme showing the route of the procession and the order of events (L9p)

Entrance ticket admitting an invited guest to a seat in the temporary grandstand to view the ceremony (L9p)

Postcard commemorating Queen Victoria's visit 1866 (V1/VIC/3)

from Mayors of Wolverhampton Volume 1 (L92352)

received his knighthood (V1/VIC/1a)

St James Causeway Lake School log book (D-EDS-149/3/1)

St Paul's National School log book (D-EDS-163/1/1)

Photograph of the illuminations at Market Place (V1/VIC/5)

Poster of letter from Victoria (L9p)

Map of Wolverhampton John Steen & Co 1884 (L1884/2)

Tit Bits on Police Life Sergeant George S Ray (DX-739)

The Royal Visit to Wolverhampton (L9)

Poem issued as a handbill and intended to be set to music (L9p)