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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 inspectedin the Tower during the Great War, and that was a pigeon which died of shock during one of the raids and was found dead on Tower Green. When William the Conqueror decided to build the Tower, he could find no stone near at hand or easily procurable in England ; he therefore sent
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Nov 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.
During Henry VIII’s long reign, the Tower’s use changed as the Tudor dynasty grew in self-confidence. Royal palaces were no longer designed as defensive strongholds and the King’s favoured residences (Hampton Court, Greenwich, Nonsuch and Whitehall) emphasised the King’s wealth and majesty.
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