The Westminster Quarters is now the most popular tune for church bells and can be heard all over the country. Where else can you hear the Westminster chimes? The official name of the tower in which Big Ben is located was originally the Clock Tower, but it was renamed Elizabeth Tower in 2012 to mark the. 'The roofs will be fully visible along with the four clock faces.' The government expects the clock to be gravity-powered again by spring, and the bell to resume its normal schedule then as well. With the clock face recently emerging from the tower’s scaffolding which has encased the famous landmark for the last few years, Londoners were excited to hear Big Ben’s bell chime again as a new year began in 2022.Īt midnight on New Year's Day, the bell was struck 12 times using a temporary drive mechanism, which replicates the chime created by the original Victorian mechanism which drops a hammer on the bell ever 4.5 seconds.īig Ben and the four quarter bells are set to resume sounding the famous daily ‘Westminster Quarters’ melody and resonant bongs using the original mechanism in Spring 2022. Big Ben is the nickname for the Great Bell of the clock at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London and is usually extended to refer to both the clock and the clock tower. 'By New Year people will start to see a big difference they'll start to get their tower back,' project manager Nicholas Sturge told Reuters. Why did Big Ben ‘bong’ on New Year’s Day?

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