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Ninety-seven
architects
submitted
400 designs.
Unsuccessful Designs for the Houses of Parliament, Thomas Hopper.
Courtesy of the Guildhall Library, City of London.
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Wheres the
clock tower?
Preliminary Study for the Houses of
Parliament, South Front, Charles Barry.
From the RIBA Library Drawings Collection.
Charles Barry
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Charles Barry
Sure.
Benjamin Vulliamy
I must protest!
Other Clockmakers
George
Biddell
Airy
Edmund
Beckett
Denison
Edward
Dent
The Illustrated London News, 7th February 1857. Courtesy of the London Metropolitan Archives.
Oops.
George Mears,
Whitechapel Bell Foundry
OR
The Illustrated London News,16th October 1858. Courtesy of the London Metropolitan Archives.
View of the Clock Tower, circa 1862, John Brandard. Chappell & Company Ltd.
Courtesy of the Guildhall Library, City of London.
Edmund
Beckett
Denison
George
Biddell
Airy
Edward Dent
dies.
Construction
begins on the
clock tower.
Charles Barry and
Augustus Pugins
final design is
approved.
1834
1835
1836
1837
1838
1839
1840
1841
1842
1843
1844
1845
1846
1847
1848
1849
1850
1851
1852
1853
1854
1855
11 July 1859:
Big Ben
strikes the
hour for the
first time!
Frederick Dent
finishes the
Great Clock.
12 October, 1858:
Big Ben is raised
into the belfry.
Augustus
Pugin dies.
1856
1857
1858
1859