A big happy birthday to one of the most famous bells in the world and that would be the one that rings on the hour from the Parliament Building in London. I speak of Big Ben.
It was made by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry which also made the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia and the Bell of Hope, given to New York on the first anniversary of the 9-11 terrorist attack. (I didn't know about the Bell of Hope.) The Lord Mayor of London presented it. There is no account of it in wikipedia.
Big Ben weighs in at 15 tons and was cast April 10, 1858, although it was another year before it rang out of the Parliament Tower.
It survived the Battle of Britain in WWII.
From April 10th Northwest Herald.
Ding-Dong, Ding-Dong. --Coot
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