Here comes summer - or so we hope! June is waiting patiently in the wings, possibly with some kind weather, but before we hurl ourselves headlong into warm sunshine and beer gardens there's a little bit of photostream admin to take care of. Let's muse over May's motley bunch of arrivals shall we?
Insisting on getting first dibs with our attention this month is WME Shropshire - yes, you read that correctly, scarcely a sniff of an update all year and then suddenly a veritable deluge by comparison. Boningale and Bridgnorth have worked their magic by supplying snapshots of field gates, The Woodlands, the Bandon Arms and even a Castle Grounds scarecrow. I've also included a sequence of pebble pictures honouring the Queen's 2022 Platinum Jubilee.
It may have been upstaged by Shropshire for a change but WME Wolverhampton still puts in a strongish showing, bolstered by additions from Bantock Park, Blakenhall and Bradmore. I'll admit that several of these are simply the usual diet of street signs and similar ephemera so perhaps the more interesting newbies involve a Gunmakers Arms dartboard, the former Roper factory frontage on Upper Villiers Street, and a seasonal snowman shopfront scene courtesy of Geo Davies Electricals on Trysull Road.
Next we'll trot across to WME Telford which has busied itself with Blists Hill Victorian Town. Forest Glen flags meet G.R. Morton's Ironworks while the Madeley Wood Brickworks earn a reappearance, not forgetting the piano parlour inside the New Inn pub. A mixture of news headlines present local stories alongside international affairs, and if that all gets too much there's a Bowring Park boa board from Wellington to investigate too (it does have a snake).
In the mentioned-in-dispatches section this time around we have four of my main West Midlands galleries. WME Birmingham raids the Brandwood area for St Bede's Church and The Pathway; WME Sandwell visits the Corks Club over in Bearwood; WME Walsall braves Brownhills for floral street art and a Purity beermat; and WME Dudley collects coal lumps at the Black Country Living Museum.
The final word from May shall go to the shires, whereby WME Staffordshire claims Codsall content (the Bentlands pub's beer garden) with a side order of the Lichfield Canal (catching up with Borrowcop Locks restoration). WME Worcestershire meanwhile bags a brace of pub signs thanks to the Bluebell in Barnards Green and the Real Ale Tavern in Bewdley. That pretty much covers everything from the last few weeks - enjoy the photos!
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