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Vol. CXII · No. 4,822Late Drizzle EditionPrice: One Tablet
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Obituaries for Shops

Tick & Tock Horologists (1962–2026)

Fictional clock menders 'went back an hour, and stayed there'.

Time, stopped.

Time, stopped. Photo: Rept0n1x, “Barn clock repair shop, Pye Road, Heswall”, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Fictional Tick & Tock fixed clocks every October for anyone who couldn’t work out the change. Fittingly, its final day of trading was precisely an hour later than advertised.

The real story: Fictional.

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