WME Flickr Focus: September to December 2015

Oh dear! Has it really been almost four months since I last filed one of my Flickr updates? Admittedly not a huge amount has been happening where the West Midlands Exploration photostream has been concerned, but that's hardly an excuse. An apologetic account of recent activity is urgently required so here goes...

September and October can each definitely be bracketed under the heading 'steady but unspectacular'. Both months primarily concerned themselves with archive extractions, so among the pictures receiving promotion were pub shots of the Nags Head at Darlaston (WME Walsall), the Blue Bell at Kidsgrove (WME Staffordshire) and the Summer House at Whitmore Reans (WME Wolverhampton). A bus station bonus came courtesy of Halesowen (WME Dudley) and there was Grand Union Canal content for both WME Solihull (Bridge 72 at Knowle) and WME Warwickshire (Bridge 55 near Hatton).

November was altogether enamoured with all things Exploration Extra, hence proffering forth railway-related shots from Colchester (the modern station entrance) and Weymouth (a general platform picture) while second shots of both Wrexham and Gloucester bus stations also entered the equation. Elsewhere, Fallgate Mill near Ashover made a welcome appearance, as did the 4a bus at Bournemouth and the Raven pub at Welshpool.

That merely leaves us with December and a minor attempt at a mopping-up exercise. Badger made its way onto the WME Shropshire map, while the courtyard garden at Bantock House supplemented an existing Bradmore sequence on WME Wolverhampton. Other than that a few buses parked themselves into position, notably the old 33 route at Tile Hill North (WME Coventry), the 44 at Telford Bus Station (WME Telford) and finally the 614 at Selly Oak (WME Birmingham).

This all means that I close down for Christmas with 2,737 pictures now paraded on my photostream - a not insignificant number but potentially only the tip of the iceberg in terms of representing thirteen or more completed years of digital photography. Any further updates will have to wait until 2016 though so I'll return to action in January with some fresh Flickr fragments for your delectation - see you next year!