“She had a private flat in the inner courtyard of the Commons and was a very feared and powerful woman in Parliament. Her flat was close to St Stephen’s Tower, which houses Big Ben. Tourists go home and tell their friends that they have seen Big Ben but that’s not true, they can only hear Big Ben. It’s a giant bell that weighs nearly fourteen tonnes, which is about equal to seven London taxis hanging from a crane. That’s some weight for a bell. By the way, the total length of the minute hands on... the clock face measure a massive fourteen feet. When I had delivered the flowers and was just about to get into my cab, the bell struck the hour. I was directly underneath the tower. My hearing is very sensitive and I could not believe the booming sound that echoed through my head. I have never heard anything like it and do not want to experience anything like it ever again. Imagine if you were actually in the bell tower of St Stephen’s when the clock struck the hour of twelve? There is a pretty big clock on Shell Mex House in the Strand, facing the Thames.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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