Droitwich Spa

The Covid 19 lockdown is a good time to catch up with some of the backlog on this blog (so many towns, so many clocks, so little effort on my part to keep up to date).

This is Droitwich Spa, visited in July 2019. The reason for many of my visits in 2019 was to see all of the concrete murals created by Henry and Joyce Collins (see my sister blog on concrete murals https://concretemurals.blogspot.com/). The Droitwich one below is in the St Andrews Square shopping centre.

Luckily for this blog, the shopping centre also has a small clock tower.

As always, I applaud the fact that a modern building has not replicated clock faces from the past but has gone for its own thing.

For the traditional clock face we can visit St Andrews church, which is the junction of High Street and St Andrews Street.

Parts of the church date from Norman times, but it was extensively rebuilt in the 1920s.

As a town that grew up around its natural brine springs (hence the Spa part of the name), it seems only natural that it should have a lido. (All the water stuff is on the other side of this building, so I suppose it is difficult to know what this building is if you weren't told).

And finally, clocking up total of four for the town, is this example in St Andrews Street (the opposite end from the church).