Another twelve months have sped on by and here I am again raking over the embers of my final Flickr update of the year. November began an alphabetical approach to additions with an array of As, so December followed suit by bringing on the Bs...
Among the lingering coals at the end of 2014 we find Bridgnorth, warming up WME Shropshire with a neat selection drawn of the Black Horse, the Cliff Railway, the Vine at Low Town and our old friend the Shakespeare. There's even a sniff of the Severn Valley Railway with a footbridge shot from Bridgnorth Station, a place where the scent of coal really does hang in the air when the trains are about!
Also accumulating in the ashes is Brierley Hill, hence WME Dudley benefits from pictures of the Rose & Crown pub, Marsh Park, the George Gallagher (historically the Plough) when it still had a roof and also the Briar Rose sculpture outside the police station. Prior to these additions, my Brierley Hill coverage on Flickr had been limited to a handful of shots that were about ten years old so it was good to add in a more recent injection of content.
Elsewhere, we are only really looking at a dusting of updates rather than a roaring flame of activity. WME Wolverhampton dropped in on the Mervyn Supermarket in Bradley whereas WME Sandwell made its way to Bearwood for a look at Lightwoods Park and the Midland pub. WME Walsall brushed over to Birchills (the Orange Tree) and Blakenall (the Kings Head), leaving WME Birmingham the last rites of sweeping Bartley Green's Bale of Hay from the grate.
All of which means we close 2014 with 2,385 pictures now showing on the WME Flickr Photostream, of which 1790 appeared on Fotopic back in the day and the rest have been cobbled together from previously unseen archive items. The challenge remains to release more material both new and old so let's see what can be conjured as I stoke the fire ready for January 2015...
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