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Ade loves living at the top of a tower block. From his window, he feels like he can see the whole world stretching out beneath him. His mum doesn’t really like looking outside – but it’s going outside that she hates. She’s happier sleeping all day inside their tower, where it’s safe.
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- The Elizabeth Tower
- The Great Clock
- The Clock Mechanism
- The Bells – Big Ben and The Quarter Bells
- Great Clock Stoppages
Imagine 21 London buses sitting on top of each other. That’s the height of the Elizabeth Tower. 11floors. 96 metres. It’s a long climb to the top. 292 steps to the clock faces and 334 steps to the Belfry where Big Ben, the Great Bell, hangs. Climb another 65 steps and you reach the Ayrton Light, the lantern that shines when the Housesof Parliamenta...
There are 4 clock dials. Each dial is made of 324pot opal glass piecesin a cast iron frame. The hour figures are 60centimetresin length.The dials are 7m in diameter. The minute hands are made of copper sheet. Each hand weighs100kilogramsandthey are 4.2m long.Theytravel the equivalent of 190kilometresa year. That’s the distance fromLondon to Weymout...
The mechanism keeps the Great Clock ticking and Big Ben striking. Each pendulum ‘beat’ lasts for 2 seconds. It’s adjusted using pre-decimal pennies, which in turn regulate the clock mechanism. Adding one penny causes the clock to gain two-fifths of a second in 24 hours. Outside pressure like the wind on the clock hands can affect the clock's accura...
Big Ben is not the only bell in the clocktower. The bells are fixed and struck by hammers from outside, rather than swinging and being struck from inside by clappers. There are four other bells in the Belfry.Theirnotesall combine to form the famous tune: 1. ‘E’is Big Ben’s musical note, as is the third quarter bell 2. ‘G’ is the first quarter bell’...
6 weeks in 2007, the longest stoppage of the hour strike since 19906 months in 19562 months in 19342 days in 2005, so that the brake shaft could be inspectedNov 3, 2011 · When William the Conqueror built a mighty stone tower at the centre of his London fortress in the 1070s, defeated Londoners must have looked on in awe. Now nearly 1000 years later, the Tower still has the capacity to fascinate and horrify.
The Tower was built on the south-eastern corner of the wall that the Romans built around Londinium circa AD 200. The line of this wall is still visible within the Tower site on the east of the White Tower, and parts of the wall are visible by the Ravens Shop. William the Conqueror.
the defences till the Tower of London took the form in which we now behold it. The chiefest amongst these royal architects were William Rufus, Henry III and Edward I, whilst the broadening and deepening of the moat took place in the reign of Richard Coeur de Lion. The Tower of London, old as it is, is not a ruin, 13
Jul 1, 2001 · The Tower Of London: Official Guidebook : Simon Thurley : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. by. Simon Thurley. Publication date. 2001-07-01. Topics. Guide Book, English Castles, Collection. opensource. Item Size. 175.5M. Official guidebook of the Tower of London. Addeddate. 2021-07-07 01:40:47. Identifier.
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The main building material is Kentish rag-stone, although some local mudstone was also used. Caen stone was imported from northern France to provide details in the Tower's facing, although little of the original material survives as it was replaced with Portland stone in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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