January 2025 has been the month with a little bit of everything, unless you happen to be of a WME Solihull persuasion in which case your time will come. All of my other constituent galleries have received at least one new arrival so it's time to catch up on the latest photostream progress...
No sooner had the strains of Auld Lang Syne died down than WME Wolverhampton was first footing its way to our front door. Our erstwhile most productive gallery has been up to its usual tricks, flinging in pictures of Peel Street car park art (Disco Stu and a Tasmanian Devil) plus scattered pieces of Penn (the Roebuck pub) and Penn Fields (Manlove Street). Phoenix Park in Blakenhall accumulated a couple of archive play area snapshots for good measure.
Also eager to live up to any 2025 resolutions was WME Dudley which formally accepted the Priory Estate as a new album. Hawthorne Road and Paganel Drive are the founding members here alongside a segment of stonework; elsewhere from this Black Country borough comes Pym's Garage near Netherton, Beacon Lane in Sedgley and Quinton's Reel Cinema...
Talking of Quinton, it's one of those areas that bridges the divide between two neighbouring council areas and therefore also qualifies for WME Birmingham. Christ Church just about falls on the Brummie side of the boundary hence its stained glass windows are a Second City snippet. Selly Park and Selly Oak have likewise registered with Smallbone's Garage a noted arrival, accompanying a selection of Second Avenue street signs.
Staying with the recognised West Midlands county remit a while longer, WME Walsall rustled up some Rushall pubs in the form of the Boathouse and the lovely Manor Arms whereas WME Sandwell extracted evening examples of platform signage at Sandwell & Dudley station. Even WME Coventry wasn't forgotten, winkling out a Willenhall estate item featuring the Flying Scotsman mural on the side of the Hagard Community Space.
Casting a glance slightly further afield, WME Staffordshire is always very good value for solid contributions and maintains this reputation courtesy of Queensville Stores in Stafford, Shelton New Road in Hartshill and more from Wombourne's 2019 Christmas nativity display. WME Warwickshire raids Rugby for Merchants Inn breweriana and a Stagecoach ticket office sighting, then WME Shropshire saunters around Shifnal snaffling up Patons Garage and Park Lane streetscapes. Near neighbour WME Telford & Wrekin notes the Severn Valley Way over in Ironbridge, leaving Exploration Extra to claim the last word care of the Chequers Inn in Oxford. Until February, enjoy the pictures!
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