🇬🇧'You know, this is a nationwide effort'
From today, an expert team will begin to take down scaffolding from the Elizabeth Tower. All four clock dials are set to be unveiled over the next six weeks, showcasing the restored original colour scheme.
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The different stages of the restoration of the Welsh Dragon which we carried out as part of our work to restore the exterior historic decorative schemes of Elizabeth Tower UK Parliament #StDavidsDay #RestoringBigBen #conservation
London to Llanover🏴🇬🇧
While the Elizabeth Tower, home to Big Ben, is known as one of the UK capital's most distinctive landmarks, you might not know about these three things that connect it to Wales👇
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Give our team a big hand - or two. The #RestoringBigBen countdown continues next week as experts begin installing restored clock hands.
Three years after they were removed for urgent conservation work, the Elizabeth Tower's original clock hands will be reinstalled from 19 July.
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The Elizabeth Tower, home to Big Ben, is one of London's most iconic landmarks. But did you know these three facts about its links to Northern Ireland?
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Today's #FridayPhoto , taken last week, spotlights the scaffolding that has been coming down from the Elizabeth Tower as the House prepares to return from recess on Monday 21 February at 2.30pm.
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Did you know?
Edmund Beckett Denison from Carlton-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire (1816-1905) designed the Great Clock and specifications for the five bells.
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Feb edition Icon - The Institute of Conservation mag is available online. Includes an interview with our Senior Projects Manager, Alexandra Miller, about returning Elizabeth Tower back to its original 1850’s Charles Barry colour scheme. UK Parliament #RestoringBigBen icon.org.uk/resources/icon…
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The original floor paving for all rooms, the belfry, and stairs inside Big Ben and the Elizabeth Tower came from Wirksworth in Derbyshire.
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The people #RestoringBigBen do incredible work. Sign up to a free online talk to hear from Rory, an expert stonemason who works for DBR. They take crafted stones from quarry to construction to installation on the Elizabeth Tower.
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PSA for those in Australia. SBS Australia will be showing 'Big Ben Restoring the World Famous Clock' on Sunday 12/12/21. It will be on SBS AustraliaOnDemand after broadcast. More info about it here parliament.uk/about/living-h… #RestoringBigBen
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Join UK Parliament on Weds the 30th of June at 6pm to hear from Ballantine Castings a family-run iron foundry based in West Lothian who have been involved in restoring the Elizabeth Tower.
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Yorkshire: famous for the dales, its puddings... and now for Big Ben repairs 🔧
Find out more about how Shepley Engineers in Sheffield have played an important part in the restoration of the Elizabeth Tower: thestar.co.uk/news/politics/…
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This month it's all about the midlands! We're celebrating the institutions, contractors, and people from the midlands who have played a part in #RestoringBigBen .
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Did you know?
Glass for the 1950s repairs to the Elizabeth Tower clock dials was made by Chance Brothers and Co., who were based in Smethwick in the West Midlands.
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