Seven thousand, six hundred and ninety four - that my friends is the current total of published pictures on the West Midlands Exploration Flickr photostream. Those images have been posted over the course of fourteen years, and plucked from an archive that stretches back to September 2002 when I first dabbled with digital photography. I've thoroughly enjoyed my hobby over all that time and definitely intend on adding even more content well into the future...
But what has been pitching into photostream contention most recently I hear you ask? WME Wolverhampton's April stranglehold has been well and truly broken, with most of the newer arrivals come from two sources - WME Worcestershire and Exploration Extra. I'll therefore break with tradition and get the stragglers out of the way first, in which case WME Telford landed itself a Woodside Costcutter shop whereas WME Dudley deposited some vintage adverts from the Wordsley Dock General Stores - think enamels for Oxo, Colman's Mustard and Lyons' Tea. WME Staffordshire grappled with Great Wyrley in garnering blossom bits and Bentons Lane, leaving WME Birmingham to say hello to Vera Road over in Yardley.
Those are mere aperitifs however compared to the veritable bonanza served up by WME Worcestershire lately. I don't think this gallery has ever received quite so many additions in one month (except maybe for when it was first created), and much of this is down to items from the Worcester's Big Parade art trail. Several elephant sculptures have made the cut, including Ash, Azalea, Jackson and The Pears, and they've been joined by assorted medley of wider Worcester bits and pieces. You know by now there are going to be street signs involved - Bull Entry, Fish Street and South Quay among them - but you're likewise getting pub-related picks from the Plough, the Bull Baiters and the Pheasant. Enjoy!
May's other serial contributor has been Exploration Extra, which sequentially tends to take a boom or bust approach. EE's next boom period has therefore been launched upon a swathe of Bristol and Brean content, so whether you like Christmas Steps or seafront shacks there might be something to interest you. Aberystwyth assigns us with an Angel pub sign and the Bethel Baptist Chapel then the Burley district of Leeds busily combines the Cardigan Arms with Patel's newsagents store. I expect Exploration Extra to lead the way over the next few months, purely because that's the way the photos look like falling, so eyes peeled for further flung fragments!
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