WME Flickr Focus: May 2015

Well the dust has begun to settle after the General Election and the Queen's Speech has set out the planned legislation for the next parliament, so lets see what items are on the photographic statute book where the West Midlands Exploration photostream is concerned...

'Black Rod' has bashed away and our first Bill is the WME Solihull Act where Knowle Locks will be presented in sequence working along the flight from top (No. 51) to lock 48 (not quite bottom). These will be aided and augmented by the Herons Nest pub slightly further along the Grand Union Canal.

Our second piece of lawmaking focuses on the combined regulation of WME Warwickshire and Exploration Extra. Shakespeare's County is being granted a three H rule comprising Hatton (the railway station sign), Henley-in-Arden (a railway station view) and Harbury (Church Street corner) whereas Exploration Extra will benefit from a commitment to Colchester bus pictures (specifically of the 76 route) and a platform pose from Arnside.

We now have rulings as regards WME Staffordshire and WME Telford - the former is instructed to include canal scenes from Great Haywood and a train shot from Kidsgrove, while the latter is issued with the Boat pub at Jackfield and a general glimpse of Ironbridge Square. Motions are also in place concerning WME Wolverhampton where it is intended to permit sightings of Heath Town's Netto supermarket (now an Asda of course) alongside Grove Lane in Tettenhall Wood.

There are a few statutory instruments that are set for ratification. Little Stretton will be joining WME Shropshire accompanied by a peek at St Mary's Church in Highley; the Handsworth Horticultural Institute and Kingstanding's Hurlingham Road are due for presentation on WME Birmingham; and WME Sandwell will provide pub pictures of the Cottage at Langley and the since-demolished Londonderry that once stood on Basons Lane.

Finally to the Private Members Bills which will also receive an airing. These include acknowledgment for the Lazy Hill Tavern near Aldridge (WME Walsall), the Gardeners Arms in Droitwich (WME Worcestershire) and the welcome return of a 297 bus shot from Stourbridge (WME Dudley). The good news for the general public is that we don't have to wait for any approval from the House of Commons or the House of Lords, as all measures and amendments are already in place on said Flickr photostream without even the slightest notion of requiring of a referendum. And that, my right honorable readers, is that for this month!