| If you are on a visit to London you cannot afford the luxury of missing out on a visit to the Big Ben Clock Tower in London. The Big Ben is actually one of London's best-known landmarks. When the clock faces are illuminated at night then this Wonder of the World is at its visual best. The Clock Tower looks most spectacular at night when it is lit up at the face. The Clock has four dials in total and the four dials are 23 feet square. The minute hand of the Clock Tower is 14 feet long and the figures are 2 feet high. Big Ben has rarely stopped while being a witness to history down the ages.
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This Clock Tower is an excellent time keeper which is minutely regulated with a stack of coins which are placed on the huge pendulum of the Clock Tower. The name Big Ben actually refers to the thirteen ton bell hung within the Tower and not to the clock-tower itself per say. This Bell was actually named after Sir Benjamin Hall, the first commissioner of works.
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This bell initially came from the old Palace of Westminster and was given to the Dean of St. Paul's by William III. The Clock Tower was refashioned in Whitechapel in 1858 before it was returned to Westminster in order to hang in its present home. The chimes of this Clock Tower were first broadcasted by BBC on the 31st of December 1923. A microphone is there in the turret of this Clock Tower which is connected to the Broadcasting House.
Remarkably, the Clock Tower remained intact and the Big Ben continued to tick according to the tunes of time with the strike of every passing hour at a time when an incendiary bomb destroyed the Commons chamber of the Houses of Parliament during the Second World War in 1941. During this time of crisis in the pages of London's history, the strike of the Clock Tower sounded as a source of great assurance for the people of London during a turbulent period and so its chimes were broadcasted to the entire nation and also to the world as a welcome source of assurance.
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