Tuesday, December 1

WME Flickr Focus - November 2020

Tiers seem to be all the rage as England readies itself to leave the second national lockdown in early December, so here at WME Towers I've decided to follow suit. My constituent collections have therefore been categorised according to their recent photostream performance...

Having the highest tier all to itself is Exploration Extra which registers a bumper November thanks to several new arrivals. These can broadly be grouped into items from Hereford, Oxford and Liverpool; Isis Lock accounts for the Oxford contingent whereas Hereford is represented by the Bishops Palace, Wallis Avenue and an ironmongers shop. Liverpool has undoubtedly been the busiest of all, trialling some city centre street signs (Rainford Square, Mathew Street) whilst checking in on the White Star pub and the famous Cunard Building. 

Dropping down into Tier Two, our middle-ranking collections include WME Wolverhampton and WME Dudley. Wolverhampton discovers Wile E Coyote by the disused former Eye Infirmary before charting developments with the Dixons Building on Cleveland Road. The Golden Lion at Fallings Park makes its presence felt, plus we have the usual clutch of ceramic street names. As for Dudley, I bring you news of Dudley Zoo goings on - especially at the Reptile House - alongside an airing for the Saracens Head and a Gornal Wood glance at Guys Lane. 

A Tier Two mention also must go to WME Birmingham after a solid few weeks of photo accumulation. Of particular note here are a couple of snapshots from Farmers Bridge Locks, and a brace of pub signs remembering the Drop Forge in the Jewellery Quarter (an upmarket industrial bar that Nick and I visited twice). Over in Edgbaston, there's a comic book depiction of some Pakistani cricketers and a bit of hoovering up as regards Farquhar Road and Church Road - all good progress I'm sure!

The lowest tier is populated by those collections that have been relatively quiet of late. WME Coventry can be very shy in terms of additions so three Fargo Village items (Bramble Street signage and some remote control street art among them) are still reason to celebrate. WME Sandwell is usually more forthcoming by comparison and supplies a Gorse Farm footbridge view along with a nod to St Francis Church in Friar Park; likewise WME Staffordshire maintains a steady trajectory via two Enville offerings and a Fazeley Three Tuns dartboard.

Some of the WME members - notably Solihull, Warwickshire and Shropshire - haven't mustered any updates at all and therefore find themselves excluded from categorisation as things stand, meaning the final word goes to that handful of constituents which only just scraped the cut. One solitary delivery was recorded by each of WME Walsall (Gillity Bridge on the Rushall Canal), WME Worcestershire (moorings at Diglis Basin) and WME Telford (Dothill Nature Reserve greenery) - and that's your lot!

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