Captain George Onions VC, British soldier born in Bilston and awarded the Victoria Cross in August 1918. Bilston was the birthplace of the poet Sir Henry Newbolt and Nelson, New Zealand Mayor George Page. John Wilkinson, "king of the ironmasters", built a blast furnace in Bilston in 1748. He lived and died in Bradley, Staffordshire. His body was returned to his hometown of Clifton in Cumberland. Hugh Walters lived all his life in Bilston. James Fleet (born 1952) is a British actor. He is most famous for his roles as the bumbling and well-meaning Tom in the 1994 British romantic comedy film "Four Weddings and a Funeral", and the dim-witted Hugo Horton in the BBC situation comedy television series "The Vicar of Dibley". David Daker, born in Bilston in 1935, is a British actor. His best-known roles are in television. He played PC Owen Culshaw in Z-Cars, Jarvis in Porridge, Captain Nathan Spiker in Dick Turpin and Harry Crawford in Boon. Don Powell, drummer in the band Slade, was born in Bilston. Richard Salter began making the first spring scales in Britain in Bilston in the late 1760s. Steve Woolam, Born in Bilston in 1946 and died in 1971 was one of the founder members of the Electric Light Orchestra. Reg Lewis who scored both goals for Arsenal in their 2-0 victory over Liverpool in the 1950 FA Cup final was born in Bilston. Bert (The Cat) Williams MBE, goalkeeper in the 1940s and 1950s with Wolverhampton Wanderers (420 appearances) and also with the England squad (31 caps). Born in Bradley, Bilston in 1920 he died in Shifnal in 2014. He has a sports centre in his name in  From 1850 to 1972 there was a railway station in Bilston town centre, but passenger services were then withdrawn and the line via Bilston (from Wolverhampton Low Level to Birmingham Snow Hill) had been almost completely abandoned within a decade. The final stub of the railway, connecting a town centre scrapyard with the South Staffordshire Line at Wednesbury, closed in 1992, only to be re-opened seven years later as the first phase of the Midland Metro tram line between Wolverhampton and Birmingham. There was also a further railway station within the town: Bilston West on the Oxford-Worcester-Wolverhampton Line.