The Final Big Ben Bongs - 12pm, Monday 21st August 2017

Big Ben is going silent for four years to enable repair work on the Elizabeth Tower and Westminster Palace. Here, recorded for posterity, are its final bongs. (Regarding the lag between the video of the bell striking and the sound of the bongs, what you're seeing is the difference between the speeds of sound and light as the camera is in the tower but the microphone is outside)

Subtitles: BONG. BONG. BONG. BONG. BONG. BONG. BONG. BONG. BONG. BONG. BONG. BONG

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