ncluding The Earl of Dudley, The Lone Ranger and Davy Crockett plus imagery including Black Country food, speedway racing, the local pub, the family cat and Brian's early years as a choir boy at Lye’s Christ Church. Many pictures focus on the factory worker, his mother worked at William Foxhall & Sons, Lye packaging headless nails while his father was a horizontal borer working for various factories throughout his life. Brian also worked in a factory between leaving school at 16 and continuing his photography studies. Photographs for the show were taken on location at factories in Lye and Cradley Heath, including Solid Swivel, Boro Foundry and Holtite Ltd and feature Black Country chainmakers. The Black Country exhibition, which is co-funded by Dudley Council, will be on at the New Art Gallery, Gallery Square, Walsall, from Friday April 8 until mid June, admission is free.
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