Wednesday, September 1

WME Flickr Focus - August 2021

Greetings all and welcome to your monthly paean to photostream progress. August has bubbled along quite nicely, chipping in with over 40 new additions although there's no doubting which of the galleries has been our main contributor again...

Yes indeed, Exploration Extra has maintained its prodigious recent output by scouring far and wide for suitable content. Kent has been particularly active thanks to Canterbury cricket (a scoreboard that doesn't make great reading for Worcestershire fans), Margate beach inflatables and a Whitstable Oyster Bar. A special mention rightly goes to Rochester for its own array of Kentish images covering various pub signs (Ye Arrow, the Jolly Knight, the Kings Head), plus the Corn Exchange clock prior to restoration; if you're feeling peckish, why not nip across the Medway and try out the Wimpy restaurant in nearby Strood?

Attempting to wrestle our attention away from the South East, Weymouth digs in for Dorset by supplying yet more gems from the 2010 Vintage Bus Running Day. Leyland Nationals of different liveries accompany a Badgerline-branded Leyland Leopard and a brace of Royal Blue specimens; the William Henry Wetherspoons also gets in on the act and there's a further study in harbourside trawler equipment for those of you with a liking for lobster pots.

Still reporting on Exploration Extra, we have more cricket-related action courtesy of Trent Bridge and Old Trafford. The former sees the Warwickshire bowling attack toiling away against some fine Nottinghamshire batting, whereas the latter offers general ground views with the redness of The Point especially prominent. A Sale school archway and Lock 89 on the Rochdale Canal are other Greater Manchester inclusions while Robin Hood's statue swells my Nottingham numbers.

Such has been Extra's dominance, my other collections have barely had a look in this month. Notable stirrings were however detected from WME Coventry which doubles its entire 2021 total when supplying a single snap of the number 20 bus on Trinity Street - heady heights I know! Near neighbour WME Warwickshire bags a pair of bus shots - the 64 and 69 routes at Leamington again - as indeed does WME Dudley care of a Sedgley 223 and a Stourbridge 299. August's last hurrah goes to WME Staffordshire for a little slice of Lichfield Bus Station as represented by the Burton-bound 7 and a 61 due to depart for Walsall, and that's your lot!

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