Fire rages at garden centre
- Environment, Gardening, News
- 17th July 2020
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
READ MORESo fierce were the gusts from Storm Dennis, that the little hand on the iconic Surbiton station clocktower’s clock was knocked off… although it was well caught by slips five and six in the outfield. At least Surbitonians can still calculate by how many minutes they’ve missed their train. Many thanks to contributor and distributor
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