![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Note that you won't be allowed to take photographs inside the tower. After this, tickets will be made available for future months on the second Wednesday of each month at 10am, on a rolling basis. Tickets for the tours in July-September go on sale at 10am on Wednesday 14 June on the UK Parliament website - and we expect they'll be very popular - priced at £25 per adult/£10 for 11-17 year olds. In addition to getting up close to the bells, the tour includes a visit to the clock mechanism room where the clock dials are kept ticking over - or not, as was the case recently - and to rooms which have never been opened to the public before. Tours start in Westminster Hall, which hosted the Lying-in-State of Queen Elizabeth II last year, before crossing New Palace Yard to the Elizabeth Tower. The famous tower clock known as Big Ben, located at the top of the 320-foot-high Elizabeth Tower, rings out over the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London, for the first time on May. It's also the first time that international visitors will be allowed inside, as previously UK residents had to organise tours through their own MP. It's the first time that the full public tours have been restarted since the lengthy conservation project on the tower, which silenced the bells for several years, and cloaked the world-famous clock faces under scaffolding - though shorter, preview tours were offered earlier this year. Climb the 334 steps of the Elizabeth Tower. Now the public is being given a chance to climb up 334 steps inside it, and stand next to the bell as it strikes the hour - which, given that the first incarnation of the "unearthly, sepulchral" bell made people's "marrow creep", sounds like quite a challenge on the lugholes. ![]()
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