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unusual facts about clock tower


Clock Tower, Hong Kong

However, as a compromise it was decided that the Clock Tower was to be preserved, and is now accompanied by the Hong Kong Space Museum, Hong Kong Museum of Art and Hong Kong Cultural Centre, all built on former station grounds.


Augusta Hall, Baroness Llanover

Hall (1802–1867, after whom "Big Ben" is said to have been named, as he was Commissioner of Works in 1855 when it was built), was for some years Member of Parliament for Monmouth, but transferred to a London seat just prior to the Newport Rising which brought with it a turbulent time in Monmouthshire.

Bardarski Geran

In the village's centre, right next to the clock tower, there is a monument to a Soviet fighter plane crew that crashed in the vicinity in World War II, as well as a monument to the locals that perished in the Balkan Wars and World War I.

Ben Caunt

It is said that "Big Ben", the hour bell of the clock-tower of the Palace of Westminster, is named after this English Heavyweight Champion.

E major

The bells of the Clock Tower in London's Palace of Westminster are tuned to the key of E major, with the result that the Westminster Quarters in their original setting employ the notes E, F-sharp, G-sharp, and B.

Harry Worth

Another sketch involved Worth complaining to a policeman outside the Houses of Parliament that Big Ben clock was slow because Jimmy Young, the BBC Radio 2 presenter known for "always being right" had said that it was ten minutes past ten, while the clock said it was 10am.

Peter Pan's Flight

Below guests are miniature versions of some of London's famous landmarks, including St. Paul's Cathedral, Big Ben, the Tower Bridge and the River Thames.

Tahu Hole

Up to that point, live news broadcasts had been in audio with the announcer/newsreader speaking over a still picture of Big Ben.

Westminster Records

Its trademark was Big Ben and its slogan was "natural balance", referring to its single microphone technique in recording music, similar to Mercury Records' Living Presence series.


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1954 Adelaide earthquake

Other major buildings severely damaged included the local church, St Francis Xavier Cathedral, the Adelaide Post Office clock tower and a newly completed hospital in Blackwood which sustained major damage in all its wards and offices (though an operating theatre survived).

69263 Big Ben

It is named after Big Ben, the bell (extending to the associated clock and clock tower) at the north end of the Palace of Westminster.

Basilica of Begoña

The clock tower houses 24 bells, with the heaviest weighing a tonne, and were built in Sumiswald, Switzerland.

Benjamin Mountfort

Construction on the buildings for the Canterbury College, which later became the University of Canterbury, began with the construction of the clock tower block.

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Depot Freight House and Train Shed

Originally, the facility's most distinguishing feature, the clock tower, was pinnacled and modeled after the Giralda in Seville, Spain; high winds destroyed the pinnacle in 1941 and the tower has since had a flat top.

Copernicus Foundation

The tower is an exact replica of the clock tower adorning the castle and its Baroque spire is seen by commuters driving along the Kennedy Expressway.

Eaton Chapel

The clock tower contains a carillon of 28 bells which were cast by Chavalier Severian Van Aerschodt of Louvain; it plays 31 tunes.

Gjirokastër Castle

Today it possesses five towers and houses, the new Gjirokaster Museum, a clock tower, a church, a cistern, the stage of the National Folk Festival, and many other points of interest.

İzmir Clock Tower

In the former Balkan provinces of the Ottoman Empire, particularly in present-day Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrin towns such as Belgrade, Prijepolje, Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Gradačac and Stara Varoš, similar Ottoman era clock towers still exist and are called Sahat Kula (derived from the Turkish words Saat Kulesi, meaning Clock Tower.)

İzmit Clock Tower

In the former Balkan provinces of the Ottoman Empire, particularly in present-day Serbian, Bosnian and Montenegrin towns such as Belgrade, Prijepolje, Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Gradačac and Stara Varoš, similar Ottoman era clock towers are still named Sahat Kula (deriving from the Turkish words Saat Kulesi, meaning Clock Tower.)

Joseph Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower

The asteroid 10515 Old Joe, discovered in 1989, is named in the clock tower's honour.

King George V School, Seremban

Located on the top of a hill, King George V’s clock tower can be easily seen as the landmark of the school.

NTT Docomo Yoyogi Building

The installation of this clock made the building the tallest clock tower in the world, surpassing the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, which had added a clock in 2000.

Our God, Our Help in Ages Past

It is also the School hymn for King Edward VI School, Southampton, which Isaac Watts himself attended, the peal of the Southampton Civic Centre clock tower and The Laidlaw Memorial School and Junior College, Ketti.

Pandit Jia Lal Saraf

He was the owner of hotel 'Naya Kashmir Hotel' which is right across the Clock Tower (ghantaghar) in Lal Chowk, Srinagar.

Republican-American

The base of the building is made of Stony Creek pink granite; the herringbone ceilings that graced the vaulted waiting room are constructed with Guastavino tiles (also used in New York’s Grand Central Terminal and the adjacent Oyster Bar); and the station’s prominent clock tower, embellished with eight gargoyles, was modeled after the Torre del Mangia on the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena Italy.

Rose Garrard

and the Cascade Gates 2007, in welded steel at the Clock Tower Well Room in North Malvern.

Safety Last!

In the 1983 martial arts film Project A, Jackie Chan also played an homage to Lloyd (whom he has frequently cited as an influence on his work) by falling from a clock tower.

Shoebox Zoo

The series makes good use of its Lothian setting, with significant locations including the University of Edinburgh library, Tantallon Castle (Scot's home), Boroughmuir High School and St Giles Cathedral, while Toledo makes his base in the clock tower of the Balmoral Hotel.

St Peter's Church, Eaton Square

St. Peter's was designed in a classical style by the architect Henry Hakewill, and featured a six-columned Ionic portico and a clock tower.

Stanford Clock Tower

On May 10, 1983, when then-Stanford president Donald Kennedy unveiled the new clock tower, he burst out laughing: the clock's west face had been covered with Mickey Mouse's face and hands by an unknown prankster.

Striking clock

A striking clock outside of China was the clock tower near the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria, which struck once every hour.

The Chinese High School Clock Tower Building

The Chinese High School Clock Tower Building in Singapore is situated in what is now the campus of the integrated Hwa Chong Institution after the merger of The Chinese High School with Hwa Chong Junior College on 1 January 2005.

Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook

Tower part of a building, currently known as Ghanta Ghar Multan or Clock Tower of Multan was named 'Northbrook Tower' located in the center of Multan city of Punjab, in Pakistan

Thornford

There are a number of Grade II listed buildings in the village, the centre of which, dominated by a Victorian clock tower, was designated a Conservation area in 1994.

Torre del Mangia

The main building of the Spanish business & law school, ICADE, located in Madrid is topped with a clock tower patterned after the Torre de Mangia.

Warton, Lancaster

Lawrence Washington, seven generations prior to George Washington and his family, arrived in Warton around 1300, and Robert Washington, Lawrence's great-grandson, is rumoured to have help build the clock tower of St Oswald's Church.