WATCH: Get a slice of Black Country life with amazing cake
The Black Country flag was flown with pride across the region as people came together to celebrate a shared industrial heritage.
Chosen as it marks the anniversary of the invention of the Newcomen Engine, built in Dudley in 1712, July 14 was official Black Country Day.
Celebratory events included a Black Country Variety Show took place at Great Bridge Library and Katie Fitzgeralds pub in Stourbridge held a special comedy club.
A 1970s-style bus drove around attractions in Sandwell to launch a packed series of festival activities.
And social media was full of people wanting to express their own pride in the Black Country. West Bromwich West MP, Adrian Bailey, posted a picture of himself posing with the flag in his Westminster office.
And Light House in Wolverhampton showed off its own knitted version of the flag designed by Redhill schoolgirl Gracie Sheppard.
Black Country Day was also the subject of a spectacular baking creation.
Nikki Beese, of Dudley, created a dazzling delicacy depicting a day in the life of a typical Black Country 'mon' to mark the occasion.
The top of the cake shows him working as a chainmaker, enjoying a tea of faggots and peas and then down at the pub with a pint and a pack of scratchings.
Mrs Beese, said: "I knew I wanted to do the Black Country flag as the base as that's the iconic picture of Black Country day.
"Everyone recognises the flag wherever you see it. I did that then incorporated the Black Country mon in it and that was it really. It's all the things that you recognise about the Black Country.
"It took probably four days and nine hours of work a day. I almost don't want anyone to cut into it now."
National Express had also emblazoned 50 buses with the Black Country flag during July. Even over in Bromsgrove there was a demonstration of the traditional skill of handmade chain-making in the 19th century chainshop at Avoncroft Museum.
This week the Express & Star published the results of its 2015 Black Country survey which showed the majority of residents felt proud to live in the region.
Though they were concerned that the area was often overlooked when it came to investment, it was felt that the Black Country will still be remembered in 30 years time. Events will continue to be held throughout July to celebrate the overarching Black Country Festival, now in its second year.
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