- Little Ben
Little Ben is a
cast iron miniatureclock tower , situated at the intersection ofVauxhall Bridge Road and Victoria Street, in Westminster, centralLondon , close to the approach to Victoria station. In design it mimics theclock tower commonly (though incorrectly) known as "Big Ben" of thePalace of Westminster found at the other end of Victoria Street.Little Ben was manufactured, according to Pevsner, by Gillett & Johnston of
Croydon , and was erected in 1892; removed from the site in 1964, and restored and re-erected in 1981 byWestminster City Council with sponsorship fromElf Aquitaine Ltd "offered as a gesture of Franco-British friendship".There is a rhyming couplet "Apology for Summer Time" signed "J.W.R." affixed to the body of the clock:
:"My hands you may retard or may advance":"my heart beats true for England as for France."
А replica of Little Ben was constructed in 1903 in Victoria, a capital city of
Seychelles .
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