WME Flickr Focus - October 2022

In times of political uncertainty, what you need is a photostream you can trust, something steadfast and decisive in our hour of need. Well the West Midlands Exploration presence on Flickr is usually reliable enough to fit the bill, with October's endeavours nudging numbers ever closer to that magic 6,000 picture mark...

If you're after dependability then look no further than WME Wolverhampton, a gallery that has been almost single-handedly responsible for our most recent arrivals. The city centre has proved prominent of late, supplying artistic items such as Worcester Street's 'Wolves Aye We' football mural alongside Slug & Lettuce pub signage and a glimpse of the Magistrates Court. Wolverhampton Station lends itself to before-and-after frontage shots so you can compare the 1960s-era version with its redeveloped replacement.

Elsewhere among the WME Wolves allocation are yet more locks on the Birmingham Main Line Canal but I seem to have become strangely fixated on only odd integers - 11, 13, 15 and 21 - with not an even example in sight! The Light House Media Centre and the University's School of Art make appearances while Wightwick Mill Lock weaves in further canal content, this time care of the Staffs & Worcs. Sprinkle in the Amateur Boxing Club on the Willenhall Road and it really has been a bumper haul.

Wolverhampton's dominance has meant my other galleries have struggled for exposure so there isn't a fat lot else to report. WME Birmingham collects a couple of Witton snippets - a cemetery scene and a Witton Lakes hopscotch grid - whereas WME Worcestershire lands another look at The Lock pub in Wolverley, bringing back memories from November 2009. There's just time for WME Warwickshire to sneak in with Willday's Farm Bridge near Curdworth and I'm now a mere ten images away from the 6k milestone - fingers crossed November will get me there.