Thursday, April 28

WME Flickr Focus: April 2016

The one-armed bandit of photostream progress is primed to reveal April's additions. Let's load some coins in the slot, pull the lever and see whether we can hit the jackpot...

Our pictorial penny arcade begins with a visit to WME Shropshire, which racks up points aplenty from Craven Arms (a station sign accompanied by Tuffins supermarket), Shrewsbury (the Bird in Hand pub sign on Coton Hill) and Church Aston near Newport (another pub sign, this time for the Aston). Add in a steam engine shot from the Severn Valley Railway at Bridgnorth and you have a suitable Salopian selection for starters.

Another tug on the lever and the Flickr fruit machine spins us a sequence of updates. There are cherries from WME Wolverhampton (the Swan at Compton, the entrance to Carvers Building Supplies and summertime shots of Bushbury Churchyard), lemons from WME Staffordshire (Cowley Tunnel on the Shropshire Union Canal near Gnosall, pretty pink flowers at Burslem Park) and watermelon slices from WME Sandwell (the Cradley Heath Chainworkers memorial statue plus the Coachmakers pub sign in Wednesbury).

Bashing away on the buttons, we attempt some nudges to increase our prospective winnings. WME Dudley thereby spins in some more mementoes from the Black Country Living Museum, although rather than fruit we seem to have landed two batches of vegetables alongside a presidential visit in narrowboat form. Applying a hold or two, we switch to WME Walsall for a Coppice Farm bus stop and the British Waterways noticeboards at Birchills. 

We just about have enough credit for a couple more plays. WME Warwickshire is busy in Bidford-on-Avon with the medieval bridge and a not-so-ancient bus stop sign, before WME Birmingham tests our luck to the limit with views of the Digbeth Branch Canal near Curzon Street. How have we done? Well the jackpot eluded us, but we still have the sweet sound of coins rattling through the dispenser as our payout is secured. Call back in May for more photographic prizewinning!

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