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Thursday April 10, 2008 Big Ben is 150 years old today.
Big Ben the bell inside the famous clock tower in London is 150 years old today . It was cast in the Whitechapel Bell foundry one of only two foundries left in the UK today. In fact the bell is the second cast for the tower - the first was found to be defective when shipped from a foundry in the north and was rejected. Whitechapel still have their sales ledger for the period that shows a rebate was given on the sale as the original metal was reused from the first casting. It does not explain why the other bell foundary were not given the chance to make bell number two.
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