WME Flickr Focus - July 2024

Even by modern day standards a lot seems to have happened in a relatively short space of time. We've had the General Election, England losing in the Euro 2024 final, Wimbledon tennis, British Open golf, President Biden announcing he won't stand for re-election and now the Olympics are underway. With all of that occurring, it's a wonder anyone can be bothered to keep track of my photostream developments...

Flickr flourishes might sound very mundane compared to that feast of sporting and political platters but I'm going to bring you up to date regardless, starting with an unsung gallery getting some overdue attention. WME Coventry seems to make a habit of shunning the limelight but can't escape our gaze entirely, not when it has crafted content out of Coundon railway crossing, the Castle Grounds pub (gearing up for a 1980s night, cue Pac-Man et al) and the concrete masterpiece that is William George Mitchell's Three Tuns mural. Added artwork comes courtesy of a penny-farthing inspired tribute to bicycle pioneer James Starley near Pool Meadow bus station, all of which amounts to a decent set of arrivals.

July's biggest contributor by quite some distance is WME Staffordshire, which has stretched itself from Coven Heath to Doxey by way of Lichfield and Codsall. In amongst the photographic flurry you can find representatives of Darnford Park, the Crown Joules pub, Oaken Lanes and the Coven Heath community litter pick, not to mention aspects of Cross Green signage along with Doxey's Fish Bar. That's two months running where Staffordshire has led the pack with some aplomb now, can it go for the hat trick in August?

We'll have to wait and see on that score but I can tell you that WME Shropshire has stirred itself from its summertime slumbers, dipping into the Shrewsbury suburb of Ditherington for glimpses of Boscobel Drive and a Coral betting shop. WME Solihull can also be inclined towards soporific tendencies so the burgeoning presence of Dickens Heath (c/o the Ale Hub and a health clinic) is to be applauded; likewise WME Warwickshire might take a sly forty winks here and there but musters up a Cubbington couplet involving Church Hill and the St Mary's nativity display. 

A few shout-outs from my West Midlands heartland galleries to finish this particular precis. WME Birmingham drops in on Digbeth for its Birds Custard Powder street art, whereas WME Dudley collects a Coombeswood chinese takeaway from Rainbow Hill before getting me all gooey-eyed for the Bathams brewery tap at The Delph. Cobbs Engine House at Windmill End is the sum total for WME Sandwell this time around, then we have WME Walsall landing a Darlaston pub sign while WME Wolverhampton acknowledges the former Dixons decorating emporium on Cleveland Road, and that's your lot. Until August, enjoy the pictures!