Extra, extra, read all about it! The printing presses have been slaving away over the last month and are now churning out the most recent headlines from the West Midlands Exploration photostream...
Strangely enough, there was only one story in town for August, but WME Staffordshire is well deserving of its front page billing. Editorial endeavours ensured that 138 Staffordshire photos were returned to the fold, taking care of a sizeable chunk of archive in the process. Making the newsworthy grade were a selection of canal and local photos that will hopefully satisfy a discerning readership.
From the canal contingent, the Staffordshire & Worcestershire proved itself a weighty copyfiller with the presence of numerous locks and bridges from Great Haywood to Kinver all accounted for. The Trent & Mersey pages dip into the Potteries with reporting from Stoke whilst the Wyrley Branch and Stourbridge Canal also confirmed their inclusion, Bells Mill and Baker Bridges being particularly well covered.
The features editor was also kept busy with plenty of local happenings, always remaining true of course to WME's traditional South Staffordshire bias. Items rolled in from the larger centres such as Stafford, Rugeley and Hednesford but it was equally heartening to see village coverage from the likes of Bishops Wood, Essington, Gnosall and Kinver. Cannock Chase added a modicum of scenery whilst the usual pub and library topics were much in evidence - take for example the Wrottesley Arms (Perton), the Woodman (Bilbrook) and the former libraries at Cheslyn Hay and Great Wyrley. Stop Press: Stoke made a late bid for inclusion with pubs and a library, plus a post office and a market entrance.
It's not often that there is so much news from one particular section of the WME family (or that much news full stop come to think of it), so August will go down as a bumper copy whilst we await to see what arrivals will be providing the stories in September...
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