Alex Foster

Big Ben on Youtube

By | Thu 23rd October 2008 - 3:11 pm

A tweet arrived earlier in the week from the official UKParliament twitter account with a link to this wonderful clip about Big Ben and the world-famous iconic clock at one end of the Houses of Parliament.

It’s just one of a series of official Youtube tours of the Palace of Westminster, so if you’re unable or unwilling to get yourself to London to have a proper look, you can find more in the UK Parliament channel.

It’s reasonably easy to get a real tour if you want one – particularly for UK citizens and in MP’s summer break. More information on the UK Parliament website here.

And if you want to know what a proper bell sounds like, rather than the cheap and nasty cracked monstrosity that currently resides in St Stephen’s Tour, why not come and listen to Little John, which rings out the hours from Nottingham’s Council House, and was until recently the deepest clock bell in the UK. Youtube doesn’t really do the bell justice.

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