A winter tree
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 of course, elsewhere, commensurate building 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 Maxwell's printing empire and now abandoned when production moved down the road to Severall's Lane in Colchester
next album: Sunsets, The BBs, a B-17 Crash Site and a Study of Pheasant Feathers, Diss and Bressingham, Norfolk - 11th December 2005
previous album: The BBs Rock'n'Roll Life, Kenninghall, Norfolk - 2nd December 2005
Autumn leaves on the ground in the park
Some hard-nut geese roam around looking for trouble
A view between two houses on Denmark Street, overlooking the Mere
The austere Baptist Chapel, standing and brooding on Denmark Hill
Nosher bumps into Penny of Suffolk County Coucil, whilst wandering back to ATS
Hidden Diss: some mystery mini-catacombs on Shelfanger Road
Cat 'B' - The Sock - lurks on the stairs
Nosher's former office was the middle of the three upstairs windows
The old flag hangs limply ouside the former Printec offices
Looking down Vinces Road
The door to the old heatset-printing shed
Vinces Road industrial estate, with the former coldset printing shed straight ahead
An empty office
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
There are some signs of life as a builder walks past
Another brick in the wall
Tyre tracks, and half-finished garages
A coned-off bit of Mission Road
The road to nowhere
Discarded Sawmills Road sign
The New Buckenham Silver Band is playing outside Somerfield
'Twiglet' Carl (far right) plays cornet
The band plays Nosher's request: 'In the Bleak Midwinter': a melancholic favourite
A shop on Mere Street gets some work done
Random Christmas decoration in the window of Larter and Fords - classic old-school ironmongers
The Browne's the Butchers 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
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
Sophie in a tree, in the late-afternoon light
The Sock stands on a bird bath, with tail swishing through the air
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A winter tree
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