Look, no hands! Surbiton’s famous art deco station clock has lost both its pointers.

Storm Ciara started it, loosening the elegant elongated diamond of an hour hand on the station clocktower, then Dennis swept into town and dislodged it completely… although it was prevented from tumbling to earth by the heroism of hour markers five and six, which cradled it and kept it safe.

But nothing could stop Storm Jorge doing its dastardly work. The ferocious window-banging gusts that have battered the 1937 concrete clocktower removed all time-telling metalwork. The hour hand is probably now in Berrylands, and the minute hand in Thames Ditton.

Repairs will have to be done with the oversight of Historic England. The white-painted concrete station structure is Grade II listed, so any restoration work requires approval.

It’s a sad sight. Having survived the Luftwaffe, Surbiton’s famous station clock hands have succumbed to a one-two-three storm whammy.