The cranes in my photograph of the statue of Queen Victoria are, to use a phrase of the computer age, "a feature not a bug". That is to say, I deliberately included them and they were not unavoidable. Why include them? Because the centre of Birmingham was something of a building site when we visited the city, and this photograph reminds me of that fact. Appropriately enough this statue can be found in Victoria Square overlooking buildings old, new and still emerging. It dates from 1901 and is the work of Thomas Brock. Or rather it doesn't and is - sort of! The statue was originally of white marble and was recast in bronze in 1951 by William Bloye.
photo © T. Boughen Camera: Nikon D5300
