Sujet

Scaffolding for Raising the Quarter-Bells in the Clock Tower of the New Houses of Parliament, 1857. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Scaffolding for Raising the Quarter-Bells in the Clock Tower of the New Houses of Parliament, [London], 1857. St Stephen's Tower, (later renamed the Elizabeth Tower), was designed to hold 'Big Ben', the Great Bell of the Great Clock of Westminster. View showing '...the pile of timbers which is now being put up within the limits of the roof of the Clock Tower, for the purpose of raising the bells. It rises nearly twenty feet above the bell chamber, resting mostly upon the iron framework which will eventually carry the bells. It is substantially put together. Upon the upper portion of this rests the machinery by which the hoisting is to be performed'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23A76_444

Model release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

11,5Mo (1,1Mo) / 15,8cm x 18,2cm / 1863 x 2149 (300dpi)

Mots clés

travel building wood interior technology timber time politics engineering tower British color clock bell palace bells wooden political lumber beam beams wheel century bell tower Big Ben Houses of Parliament Britain belfry inside framework cog cogs newspapers press concept civil engineering B&W timepiece tourist attraction engraved engraving Colour 19th century Indoors black & white black and white B W white and black nineteenth century Palace of Westminster tourism The Print Collector Illustrated London News St Stephen's Tower wood engraving ILN newspaper Unknown lifting gear Elizabeth Tower 19th-century