Billy Bassett, Jesse Pennington, Tommy Glidden, WG Richardson, Ronnie Allen, Ray Barlow, Jeff Astle, Tony Brown, Cyrille Regis, the Pearsons and the Everisses......an illustrious list, indeed.

Thankfully, a club who won the League Championship almost a century ago and have also lit up the Black Country with FA Cup and League Cup triumphs, plus some conquests abroad, have been a magnet for eagle-eyed Daily Mirror photographers. Many of the superb images in this publication are previously unseen and illustrate the dramatic Baggies story.