A 125-year-old Grade-II listed clock which was toppled by lorry is to be fixed by restorers who previously worked on Big Ben.

Erected in 1898 to mark Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, the clock outside the Vale Hotel in Cricklade, Wiltshire, was damaged after being hit on Tuesday evening.

It is now scheduled to be fixed by the Cumbria Clock Company, which helped restore Big Ben during the £80m renovation of the Elizabeth Tower in Westminster.

On assessing the damage to the landmark, Cumbria Clock Company owner Keith Scobie-Youngs, who grew up in the area, said he had never seen anything quite like it.

According to Cricklade Town Council, the clock had been fixed before after it was hit by a military vehicle in 1945.

Scobie-Youngs, whose company has been maintaining the clock since 1989, said the internal mechanisms of the structure and the electrics had been removed, but a larger vehicle was needed to move it from the ground.

He said recovering the smaller pieces of the clock already had stopped people from taking away "trophies".

He said the process of restoration would take at least 12 weeks and they hoped to keep as much of the original clock as possible.

Scobie-Youngs said he had a "full workshop" of people "capable of repairing cast iron" and "fabricating other structures to fit inside".

"When it does come back it will look exactly as it does now but perhaps a little bit stronger," he added.

A lamppost was also damaged in the incident, entering a window of a guest room at the Vale Hotel.

The hotel said it was planning to get a structural engineer to assess whether there was other damage.

Pauline McManus, who lives locally, said the clock was "part of this town" and that she had confidence it would be put back together.

Meanwhile, resident Ceri Whitehead, who has lived in the town for 12 years, previously said: "It has always been there, it's like part of the furniture and it's definitely a focal point especially with Christmas coming up - they decorate it."

Describing clocks as "important milestones", Scobie-Youngs said they were "important touchstones for local communities".

"Every community will have stories about those clocks," he said.

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