Talk:Big Ben/@comment-5194340-20170815094352

Big Ben is my most favourite landmark, as I love listening to its chimes, although we won't hear them again for four years after midday on August 21, 2017, as they are restoring the tower and have to silence the bells as it's a health and safety reason for some workers having to work around the bells, which do create chimes that are so loud. So in this case, from midday on August 21, 2017 to an unspecified date in 2021, Big Ben will remain silent, but it will still chime for important events like Remembrance Sunday and New Year's Day. (And there is an interesting thing that they're adding an elevator/lift inside the tower, because I recall the film Cars 2 showing one due to that the Cars characters would have had some difficulty climbing up a steep staircase.)