The other day I had to go to the Post Office to collect a parcel (containing this beastie, but more on that later…) and since the snow was still impressive took a detour via Bournville, Birmingham’s model village built from scratch by the Cadbury family to house their workers.

A few years back I was lucky to live above the shops on Bournville Green and it was there that I first started taking TTV photos. In fact my very first TTV photo was taken right here out of my front door. So I spent a lot of time around Bournville Green taking photos of this and that.

While most of Bournville was photogenic enough to warrant the cliche “shooting fish in a barrel” the Rest House proved to be quite a tricky one to get right. Something to do with the shape. It wasn’t until this shot that I finally thought I’d cracked it (although looking back it’s not that great) so it was with some trepidation that I reviewed the 40-odd photos I’d carefully taken of the thing.

Four made the short list but two of them were a bit off, truth be told. Leaving me with the one you see above and another I’m still looking at. Maybe it’ll make the cut. Maybe it won’t. I’m not sure. There’s something just not right about it.

The Rest House photo isn’t in my current range of prints but if you’d like one I can put a special order through.