Moreover, the town was seen as being overshadowed by nearby towns with larger shopping centres, such as the Queensmere Observatory (Slough), The Oracle (Reading), The Chimes (Uxbridge), Harlequin Shopping Centre (Watford) and Central Milton Keynes Shopping Centre (Milton Keynes).
This was released on CD by Blackstone Audio in 2007, and re-released by Brilliance Audio in 2011.
The Chimes was used to film scenes for the Channel 4 television comedy The Inbetweeners, offering itself as a shooting location on just three days' notice after another shopping centre withdrew.
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However, the chimes issuing directly from the Big Ben were delayed due to the distance travelled, so the "thirteenth" chime was a repeat of the twelfth that Macey heard just before over the radio.
Initially, the national anthem "God Save The Tsar!" was proposed, but Tsar Nicholas I forbade it, stating that "the chimes can play any song except for the anthem".
The film's climax features an extract from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, accompanying footage of tanks passing the statue of Lincoln in Parliament Square, the chimes of Big Ben, and civilians travelling to work.