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However, its journey to national treasure status has not been entirely easy. Once Barry had designed a clock tower he was faced with the challenge of finding a clockmaker capable of making a big enough clock to go inside his elegant new creation.
This was considered impossible and it was only after a seven-year delay that an amateur clockmaker, Edmund Beckett Denison, came up with a design. As well as a functioning clock the new tower also needed a series of bells. These included four small bells to chime the quarter hours and a big bell to sound the hour; each bell makes a different note and together they sound the famous Westminster Chimes, but making and hanging the main bell was to prove as challenging as making the clock.
The original bell weighed a staggering 16 tonnes and was cast by Warners of Norton. It was hung in New Palace Yard temporarily but when tested in October an alarming 1. But it can now be heard as far away as nine miles. Leave this field empty.
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