First up is a clock on a new housing development on Victoria Road, the main road through the town, at its junction with Rose Lane.
Slightly incongruous, but nevertheless nice to see new clocks when so many older ones are disappearing or are in a poor state of repair.
Further along Victoria Road (if you manage to dodge all the cyclists - you have to walk in the cycleway as the pedestrian part of the dual use footway is blocked by parked cars) is the Rosedale Funeral Home. As we have seen from earlier postings, funeral directors often have clocks (perhaps to remind us all that time is running out), and this is no exception.
Onwards past Tescos (no clock) to Morrisons. The style adopted here for the clock seems to be that of a radio past - it has something of a Soviet-era feel to it. Perhaps it is secretly part of the defence network for all the US airbases in the region!
The clockface itself is a no-messing sort of design. You feel that you wouldn't argue with this clock (although arguing with any clock is pretty pointless and liable to lead you to be prescribed strong medication).
So far it has been three out of three for working clocks, but here the winning run ends. This building on St Nicholas Street is looking for a new use, but was once the local branch of Lloyds Bank. Given the empty state of the building it is no surprise that the time given here would lead you astray.
Back now to the centre of Diss, and the church of St Mary.
A slightly weather-beaten surround, but otherwise I really like this one.
In the shadow of the church tower (well okay not much sunshine to give a shadow on this cold overcast day in January, and anyway the building I am about to talk about is to the south of the tower and therefore wouldn't be cast in its gloom - but perhaps it could be caught in a moonlight shadow: who knows but I am not about to hang around Diss on a freezing cold January night. Now where were we?) is the Post Office in Market Place.
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