The Big Picture - West Midlands

Knights, Queens and Archbishops were in the frame when The Big Picture team joined the cast of the play Edward II at Warwick Castle today - and Ben Sidwell from Midlands Today was seen chatting to a suit of armour (we thought it was empty, but he may have known better!). If you’d like to watch a little of his report you can see it online.

Earlier in the day we were in Worcester, where people were waiting for us with their photos as we arrived! We set our giant photo frames up outside the Guildhall and took loads of photos, like this one:

Where: Lady Godiva Statue, Broadgate Coventry

When: Friday 24 January at 9am till 11am

Who: The Big Picture team and giant oversized photo frames

Come and find out more about The Big Picture. Be in it, by stepping into our giant photo frames and take away goodie bags - including disposable cameras.

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You may have noticed that the Big Picture website experienced some technical problems yesterday evening - we’re sorry for that, but pleased to say that they’re fixed now.The overwhelming number of visitors to the site, and the huge volume of photos being uploaded since launch on Monday slowed the site right down and in some cases you may not have been able to get to us at all. Our technical gurus worked hard and quickly to sort out these problems and are confident that the site is now much stronger.

Sorry if you experienced these problems but we hope, and are almost certain, that it won’t happen again.

If you have any questions please email us at [email protected] and we’ll do our best to help.

Children from Bridgnorth Endowed school joined The Big Picture team today at Blists Hill Victorian Town in Ironbridge, Shropshire - dressed in costume from their upcoming production of Oliver! - and they sang for BBC Radio Shropshire too.

The Big Picture has already got 1,400 photos in the albums - so keep adding yours and we’ll be on target for that world record. Don’t forget your photos can be of anything that you feel represents your life in the West Midlands – that could be a nice landscape, a building, your family or even your pets - like Tiger here who we met today in Shrewsbury Town Centre:

Where: Warwick Castle

When: Wednesday 23 January 5.30pm – 7.30pm

Who: The Big Picture team and giant oversized photo frames

Come and find out more about The Big Picture. Be in it, by stepping into our giant photo frames and take away goodie bags - including disposable cameras.

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The Big Picture launches with an exciting week of events around the West Midlands!

Join us near to you to find out more about the world record breaking attempt to create the largest photo montage in the world, and to learn how you can help create the biggest photo album in the West Midlands.

The Big Picture team will be at Wolverhampton Racecourse on Monday with giant oversized photo frames so you really can be in the picture. We’ll have some fantastic giveaways including disposable cameras. In the following days we’ll be in Shropshire, Stoke, Warwick, Coventry and finally Birmingham.

Where we’ll be and when:

Wolverhampton Racecourse - Monday 21 January - 12- 4.30pm

Ironbridge Blists Hill Victorian Town - Tuesday 22 January - 10am – 12pm

Shrewsbury Town Centre - Tuesday 22 January -2pm – 4pm

Worcester Guildhall - Wednesday 23 January - 11am – 2pm

Warwick Castle - Wednesday 23 January - 5.30pm – 7.30pm

Stoke, Tontine Square - Thursday 24 January - 10am– 12pm

Stoke, Trentham Gardens - Thursday 24 January - 2pm – 4pm

Coventry, Lady Godiva - Friday 25 January - 9am – 11am

Birmingham, Hurst Street - Friday 25 January - 1pm – 3pm