Thursday marks the 160th anniversary of when Big ... Great Clock. Old fashioned pennies on the pendulum help to keep the Great Clock accurate. UK Parliament / Jessica Taylor The clock faces ...

Big Ben, the famous clock tower of the ... The work included fixing the tower’s structure, the clock mechanism, and bringing back the clock faces’ original Prussian blue color.

Big Ben is to revert to its ... completed in 1859 and took samples of old paint. It forms part of a £61m renovation. The shields above each clock face are currently gold and black, while the ...

Big Ben is a very old clock - it's been around for over 160 ... which holds both the bells that make Big Ben's 'bongs' and the giant clock-face. The clock needed urgent repairs, and it was ...