MPs Want To Rename Big Ben
Royal rebranding for the Clock Tower.
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Plans To Charge £15 To Climb Big Ben
From July, achey legs will no longer be free.
Big Ben: The Leaning Tower Of Westminster
The tower’s lean is now visible to the naked eye.
London Mythbusting: #2 Big Ben Mixups
The identity of the Gothic clock tower at the Palace of Westminster is like flypaper to pedants and counter-pedants. Any time someone refers to ‘Big Ben’, anywhere on the web, you can guarantee there will be a comment within minutes pointing out that Big Ben …
Election Results Projected Onto Big Ben
As giant screens go, they don’t come more impressive than this. On May 6, Big Ben will be turned into a giant vote-meter as live election results are projected onto its east face (the BBC claim it’s the southern face, but that seems unlikely given …
News At Ten Banishes Big Ben
Image by adav In an attempt to make the show seem less London obsessed, ITV is to unveil a new opening title sequence for the News At Ten, which dispenses with the face of the Clock Tower at Westminster, commonly known as Big Ben. ITV …
Big Ben Is Bloody Old (It’s Official)
Everyone saw the fireworks last night – either you were stood in the deep-freeze, snug on the sofa on the TV screen or you simply went to bed and caught up with it today on the glorious interweb. Amid the tumultuous bright lights, clouds of …
Bulky Buildings Are Us
Earlier this week, the Trinity project got the go-ahead from the City of London. You might not have heard of Trinity. It’s a cosy threesome of office buildings set for construction in that obscure corner of the City known as Minories. Just shy of 100 …
Monday Miscellanea
This day in London’s history Is this the dullest date ever in London’s history? The best we can come up with is the completion, in 1807, of some new docks in Rotherhithe. Oh, and Southgate and Enfield West opened on the Piccadilly Line in 1933. …
London Rubbish Not Rubbish
To be honest we should have added the London Rubbish photoblog to our list of links a long time ago. Although (from what we can tell) Mark Sheldon has only been posting since mid-2005 he’s already made quite a name for himself in the overcrowded …
The Clock Tower Tour
Big Ben is possibly London’s most famous landmark. Its chimes ring out all over London, and indeed the world through the BBC World service. But how many people can claim to have been up the clock tower and even behind the clock faces? Londonist’s man …
