Hello and welcome to RAF Exploration where an inspection of the aerodrome inventory reveals that our photographic fleet currently stands at 3,410 pictures. It is now time to take a roll call of the most recent additions to the crew - chocks away what!
September's squadron leader is our old friend WME Wolverhampton, summoning up several successful shots for ongoing inclusion. The Pelham Works building now graces Graiseley whereas Penn picks out the Old Stag's Head Inn and a Woodlands Walk noticeboard. There are pubs old and new as we trade Northwood Park's Staffordshire Volunteer for Oxley's Gatehouse Hungry Horse, plus Pendeford ponders the back end of some buses over at Whitburn Close turning circle.
Also venturing forth from the hangar are dual daredevils WME Birmingham and WME Sandwell. Birmingham assumes the appropriate formation courtesy of Rednal remnants (the Old Hare & Hounds Ember sign), Kings Norton knowledge (the Kings Oak at Vardon Way) and Longbridge lookout duty (a railway station sign); Sandwell meanwhile takes up Oldbury observations (the Waggon & Horses) before a Langley lunge grabs a snap of the village clock.
The aerodrome windsock is pointing for once in the direction of WME Coventry, making a rare 2017 flight with a raid on Radford. Jubilee Crescent shops thus make a welcome return to photostream action, ably assisted by the former Brookville Cinema on Holbrook Lane albeit in its modern guise as a Karpet Kingdom showroom. WME Warwickshire has winged its way over to Mancetter near Atherstone for a taste of Blue Boar altitude, the pub and its stanchion sign being plucked from the skies.
Finally we have a couple of craft seeking clearance to land. WME Staffordshire makes a smooth descent with Newtown's Ivy House safely accounted for, then WME Telford reaches the runway courtesy of some Madeley manoeuvres involving Williams' Funerals clock and a Bethesda Chapel blue plaque. With that all pilots have reported back to base, and we wait to see which photographs will soar skywards in October!
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