Clock Tower and Westminster Bridge
London
[Compare photo taken in 2001]
Image and text scanned by Nathalie Chevalier.
The Clock Tower (St. Stephen's Tower) at the north end next to Westminster Bridge is 318 feet high. A light in the Clock Tower by night, and the Union flag flying from the Victoria Tower by day indicate that the "House" is sitting.
The great Bell of the Clock Tower, popularly called "Big Ben", is one of the largest known, weighing no less than thirteen tons. It is heard in calm weather over the greater part of London. [text accompanying photograph]
The volume containing these images by an unidentified photographer bears the imprint "With H. and C. F. Feist's compliments" but no name, date, or place of publication, though the Feists were dealers in port wine, and Plate 30 demonstrates that the photograph must have been taken after 1902, and John R. Mendel offers evidence that it dates before mid-1906 [GPL].
Last modified 7 November 2003