A FORMER Express & Star librarian who was responsible for cataloguing thousands of precious photographs has died aged 90.
Hazel Jones, from Penn, worked at the newspaper’s Queen Street headquarters in Wolverhampton after she left school in 1942. Her duties included storing and maintaining an archive of photographs that today includes one million images dating back more than a century.
Among images she stored included ones sent on the train from agencies including Press Association and Reuters from the day Princess Elizabeth married Phillip Mountbatten in 1947, and pictures from the liberation of the Belsen Nazi concentration camp.
She had recently backed the Express & Star’s campaign for Lottery funding to digitise its huge collection of old photographs.
Pictured: Hazel was given a tour Queen Street by Chris Leggett when she visited aged 88
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