Friday, August 24

WME Flickr Focus - August 2018

What's going on here then? It's not even the end of the month and yet we have a photostream digest post already - scandalous! I'll be away watching cricket in Wales for a few days (fingers crossed for good weather) so I'm getting the Flickr admin sorted out before I go, hence this brief summary of the latest photographic arrivals...

WME Telford led the way in August with a dozen additions all from the Blists Hill Victorian Town museum. The Chip Foundation went there last September to celebrate Nick's birthday - a visit we intend on repeating imminently - so the offerings include vintage enamel signs (Dunlop Tyres, Wem Ales), newspaper headlines (Queen Victoria's Birthday, the Boer War) and a look at the post office frontage. The Hay Inclined Plane also makes an impression, one of my favourite examples of canal engineering.

Along with Telford, WMEs Coventry and Solihull are usually the lesser-seen members of my photostream family but both came out of hiding with some useful new content. WME Coventry registered a Bonds Hospital circular plaque plus the Ember Inns pub sign for the Burnt Post near Stivichall, whereas WME Solihull found itself a Berkswell village fingerpost and a Blossomfield Road bus stop. 

Weighing in with their own acquisitions were WME Dudley and WME Birmingham. Brum busied itself around Centenary Square, pocketing glimpses of the International Convention Centre (ICC) and the Library of Birmingham; Dudley meanwhile concentrated on Coseley (an evening shot of the New Inn's Holdens Brewery stanchion) and Brierley Hill (the cottagey Dog & Lamppost). 

By far the biggest contributor to my published archive this year has been WME Wolverhampton, a status it maintained with another healthy selection of snaps. The Banks's 'Tells It Like It Is' campaign has remained in the spotlight courtesy of their Property Ladder and Walls Have Beers creations whilst the Firs at Castlecroft supplied a more traditional style of pub signage. Bushbury Hill beckoned too for an almost-rural scene complete with grazing cows and pasture.

That as ever just leaves us with the stragglers, which this time around were WME Walsall (a solitary Beechdale street art contender adorning the rear of the local Social Club), WME Staffordshire (a second view of the flat-roof Castle pub in Brereton near Rugeley) and WME Worcestershire (the tented entrance to Bromsgrove Beer Festival). I'll now get packing for my cricket-watching escape so until next time enjoy the pictures and Come On You Bears!

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