Work at Big Ben grinds to a halt for more than three months. These are testing times for the team. Before the pandemic, the original budget had already increased from £61 million to £79 million.

Big Ben is to be stopped while the tower that houses it undergoes repairs costing £29m and lasting three years. Parliamentary authorities say Britain's most famous clock will be halted for ...

Towering 64 metres above a Yorkshire high street is a clock which could easily be confused with Big Ben. Sheffield’s fourth ...

The work, due to begin in January 2017 and last three years, is the biggest repair job on the tower for decades -- and Steve Jaggs, Parliament's Keeper of the Great Clock, said it can't wait much ...

Big Ben is to be silenced for four years today following its twelfth bong at midday in order for renovation work to be carried out on the Great Clock and the Elizabeth Tower.

LONDON — Big Ben, the giant bell on the clock at Britain's Houses of Parliament, will be silenced from next week to allow four years of repair work. The famous gongs that ring across the River ...

Big Ben, the famous clock tower in London, has seen a big restoration project. This project aimed to fix its structure and keep its heritage alive. It cost £79.7 million and lasted from 2017 to 2021.

Big Ben at the Palace of Westminster in central London on September 6th, 2021. BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images. Big Ben, the iconic clock tower that’s defined the London skyline for ...

Today, Big Ben’s clock tower is one of London’s most famous features. It stands 320 feet high. ... USE the Internet or other reference source to learn how clocks work.

London's Queen Elizabeth Tower and its bell, Big Ben, will be silenced from noon on August 21 until 2021 as the iconic structure undergoes urgent repair work. The 160-year-old tower, which is a ...

By now you know that Big Ben, ... “Of course we want to ensure people’s safety at work but it can’t be right for Big Ben to be silent for four years. ... Big Ben and the Great Clock.

Big Ben is actually the huge 13 ton (14.5 tonnes) bell inside the world's largest four-faced chiming clock, which provides those distinctive chimes, known to Britons as the "bongs." ...