He woke up after a five year nap. Big Ben, the most famous clock in the world, rang again this Sunday around 11 in the morning. Thus, the iconic 13.7-tonne bell will once again serve as a clock for Londoners. More specifically, the carillon with four bells will sound every quarter of an hour and the great bell, Big Ben, every hour, at the rate it was before its renovation.
The date coincides with “Remembrance Sunday”, which is celebrated on the Sunday after November 11 to celebrate the armistice of the First World War. The first bells began to ring when King Carlos III stood in front of the cenotaph, in silence.
In five years, the clock has still struck on a few occasions thanks to a substitute electrical mechanism, such as recently for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, who died on September 8.
When it closed in August 2017, more than a thousand people gathered in front of Parliament to religiously listen to the last twelve chimes of Big Ben and the other four -smaller- bells that accompany it. Some even shed a tear, believing that they were losing part of their city.
Source: BFM TV
