Oh look, it's monthly digest time again and it appears we've got some serious chewing to do as regards a wide smattering of photostream updates. Which galleries will lead the mastication league tables and which ones are feeling a little bit underfed? Grab your knife and fork, we're about to find out...
Gluttony is not a word we would usually associate with WME Solihull but - believe it or not - this is our surprise leader when the September standings are totted up. Knowle Locks have been the driving force for this remarkable revelation, aided by a chemists sign (again from Knowle) and a liking for Lyndon courtesy of a pub advertising board. Meriden meanwhile stakes a contentious claim to be at the geographical centre of England, or so the plaque accompanying its wayside cross would try to convince us...
Also displaying telltale signs of peckishness has been WME Warwickshire which has gorged itself on tasty offerings from Lapworth and Lowsonford. The Fleur de Lys pub probably takes star billing in the latter (and always registers highly in my affections for being one of my first pubs visited after the initial Covid lockdown period), whereas the former locality nibbles on the Navigation alongside a general field view - how pretty! My favourite pictures here however are of Lowsonford Lock on the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal, complete with its distinctive barrel-roofed keepers cottage.
Starvation is not something that WME Staffordshire has had to worry about recently, a healthy diet of Lower Penn and Kidsgrove content having seen off any risk of hunger. The usual street art platters from the South Staffs Railway Walk are a regular menu item so we'll gloss over those in favour of acknowledging Kidsgrove's Victoria Hall council base and more porcelain pieces on display near the toilet block (oh the glamour). The Cross Inn at Kinver and Marsh Lock near Swindon ensure a plentiful portion too.
No surprises that the ever-ravenous WME Wolverhampton has taken its place at the dining table. Legs Lane Playing Fields in Bushbury trade recipes with Leasowes Drive blossoms and hints of Mander Centre public artworks, while dessert is supplied in the form of Low Hill's ex-pub the Bushbury Arms House. Anyone after cheese and biscuits should hopefully be satisfied with a Lobos Wolves paste-up featuring more Premier League footballers.
And now for the batch of galleries which have found themselves fighting over the leftovers. WME Coventry's crumb is a Lythalls Lane Off Licence sign (vintage M&B branding) whereas WME Shropshire lands a look inside the Rose & Crown at Ludlow. WME Telford taste-tests the Bird in Hand in Ironbridge (sadly long-term closed) before picking out a Grainger Drive delicacy from Leegomery. Elsewhere, WME Walsall declares a longing for Leamore (the Railway's dartboard makes an appearance), WME Birmingham finds the Frank Allart factory in lovely Ladywood, and WME Sandwell laments the Royal Oak's closure in Langley. Cheers!
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