Autumn leaves in Diss Park
Post-modern Alienation: Bleak House, a Diss Miscellany, Norfolk - 3rd December 2005
Whilst recent photos seem to emphasise the destruction of parts of Diss, there is also some construction to make up for it. The problem is that whilst the odd new building here and there tends to blend in unnoticed to existing infrastructure in something of an organic way, slapping up entire estates in one go is doomed to create a soul-less wasteland of bleak, identikit boxes. And so it is around Mission Road on the outskirts of Diss, where Yet Another Housing Estate is seemingly prefabricated from concepts straight out of "The Big Book of House Design 101" and dumped whole onto a muddy field. It really sums up - especially on a cold, cloudy day - how much of modern life is rubbish. But, before all that, there are a few photos of Nosher's old work's building - the former BPCC Printec (Development Workshop/Anglia Web/Polestar) - once part of Robert Maxwell's printing empire and now abandoned when production moved down the road to Severall's Lane in Colchester.
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A winter tree
Autumn leaves on the ground in the park
Some geese roam around looking for trouble
A view from Denmark Street
The austere Baptist Chapel on Denmark Hill
Nosher bumps into Penny of Suffolk County Council
Some mystery mini-catacombs on Shelfanger Road
Cat 'B' - The Sock - lurks on the stairs
Nosher's former office was the middle window
A flag hangs ouside the former Printec offices
Nosher's old office on Vince's Road
Looking down Vinces Road
The door to the old heatset-printing shed
The former coldset printing shed is straight ahead
An empty office to let
Discarded service duct on the edge of Mission Road
A new roundabout is built
The remains of Mission Road
A portaloo in the middle of a muddy field
The drain seems a little proud of the ground
Little boxes, made out of tiffy-taffy
A show house on the new road
Signs of life as a builder walks past
A brick wall under construction
Another brick in the wall
The Portaloo again
Tyre tracks, and half-finished garages
A coned-off bit of Mission Road
The road to nowhere
Discarded Sawmills Road sign
A new traffic island
More pipe is lying around
The New Buckenham Silver Band plays at Somerfield
Twiglet Carl plays cornet by Somerfield
The band plays 'In the Bleak Midwinter'
A shop on Mere Street gets some work done
Christmas decoration in Larter and Ford
The Browne's boys: Dan, Roger and Richard
Dan Dan the Meat Man, of Browne's Butchers in Diss
Richard's in the till
Roger Browne checks some notes
Roger and Richard
Richard chops something up
Christmas tinsel outside 'This 'n' That'
The Salvation Army band plays
The Sally Army band outside NatWest
Down by Mere's Mouth
There's a bird explosion over the Oaksmere
Sophie in a tree, in the late-afternoon light
Soph-bags has a yowl
The Sock stands on a bird bath and does a tail swish
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Autumn leaves in Diss Park
Autumn leaves in Diss Park
A winter tree
Autumn leaves on the ground in the park
Some geese roam around looking for trouble
A view from Denmark Street
The austere Baptist Chapel on Denmark Hill
Nosher bumps into Penny of Suffolk County Council
Some mystery mini-catacombs on Shelfanger Road
Cat 'B' - The Sock - lurks on the stairs
Nosher's former office was the middle window
A flag hangs ouside the former Printec offices
Nosher's old office on Vince's Road
Looking down Vinces Road
The door to the old heatset-printing shed
The former coldset printing shed is straight ahead
An empty office to let
Discarded service duct on the edge of Mission Road
A new roundabout is built
The remains of Mission Road
A portaloo in the middle of a muddy field
The drain seems a little proud of the ground
Little boxes, made out of tiffy-taffy
A show house on the new road
Signs of life as a builder walks past
A brick wall under construction
Another brick in the wall
The Portaloo again
Tyre tracks, and half-finished garages
A coned-off bit of Mission Road
The road to nowhere
Discarded Sawmills Road sign
A new traffic island
More pipe is lying around
The New Buckenham Silver Band plays at Somerfield
Twiglet Carl plays cornet by Somerfield
The band plays 'In the Bleak Midwinter'
A shop on Mere Street gets some work done
Christmas decoration in Larter and Ford
The Browne's boys: Dan, Roger and Richard
Dan Dan the Meat Man, of Browne's Butchers in Diss
Richard's in the till
Roger Browne checks some notes
Roger and Richard
Richard chops something up
Christmas tinsel outside 'This 'n' That'
The Salvation Army band plays
The Sally Army band outside NatWest
Down by Mere's Mouth
There's a bird explosion over the Oaksmere
Sophie in a tree, in the late-afternoon light
Soph-bags has a yowl
The Sock stands on a bird bath and does a tail swish