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Hay, clock this: Farmer builds Big Ben replica in his field from 50 bales of straw . By JAMES TOZER FOR THE DAILY MAIL Updated: 03:28 EDT, 6 August 2009 ...
NANTWICH, England, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- A pair of British businessmen have created a 70-foot-tall tribute to London's 150-year-old Big Ben clock from more than 500 bales of straw. Chris Sadler and Mike ...
A pair of Cheshire businessmen have teamed up to create a 70ft scale replica of Big Ben made from straw ... the real thing and features two working clock faces rather than four.
“Only on special occasions, such as New Year’s Eve and Remembrance Sunday — a day to honor those who fought in the two world wars — will its bells ring,” an L.A. Times story says.
The Great Clock of Westminster, which contains Big Ben, has stopped ticking for the second time in a week. It froze for roughly 30 minutes on Wednesday, a week on from displaying the wrong time ...
Big Ben will began to regularly chime again, after a special ringing for Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday. The giant clock has had some important repair work, which paused the regular chimes ...
The Elizabeth Tower, which houses the Great Bell, i.e. Big Ben, stopped chiming on Wednesday morning after its dials displayed at the wrong time. Christopher Hope, political editor at GB News posted ...
A chronology of the world's most famous clock. The Elizabeth Tower, Big Ben, St Stephen's Tower, the Westminster Clock Tower... call it what you will*, the multistorey timepiece of the Houses of ...