Time painted into a circle

Look very very carefully at this picture of the tower at Yoxall Church.  See anything odd?

The oddness is that this is not a real clock-face at all, but a painted one.

I don't know why, but I find this almost to be a form of cheating...  But why should I feel that way?

Watch-tower on the canal

This curious medieval-looking structure at Gailey turns out to be a watch-tower of sorts.  It's a 'roundhouse', the last of its kind on the Staffs & Worcester Canal, built originally to allow the toll-keeper to keep an eye on what was going on beneath him (or her). 
I wouldn't have thought such height or even size was necessary - but what do I know?  Maybe they dropped things from the top on to malefactors below.

The bottom layer now houses a shop selling ice-creams and souvenir canal ware.