One of London’s biggest attractions will fall silent next week for four years for “major conservation works” that will be carried out on the tower, which houses the bell, reports CNN.
The repairs are estimated to cost about $42 million.
The bell has kept time in the British capital for 157 years, but at noon on Monday, August 21, Big Ben, the bell inside the tower, will sound for the last time until 2021. The tower, originally St. Stephen’s Tower, renamed Elizabeth Tower in 2012, and the clock is simply known as the Great Clock.
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