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. The name of the tower is actually the Elizabeth Tower, named after Queen Elizabeth II. 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. A lot of people may not know that Big Ben is not the tower but the bell. 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. Workers have discovered extensive World War II bomb damage on the tower that houses London’s famous Big Ben clock, which will force the cost of restoring it to rise by £18.6 million (24.3m). 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. 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. The gothic-styled tower standing 315 feet (96 m) high holds a four-faced clock and was built in 1858 at the far end of the Parliament. The tower itself is 96 meters tall and has.
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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. The Palace of Westminster’s famous clock tower has become one the city’s most famous landmarks, as well as one of the most iconic symbols of London. Image Credit: Shutterstock About Big Ben Big Ben is one of the United Kingdom’s most iconic landmarks, and has for almost two centuries towered over Westminster’s busy streets to the awe of Londoners and tourists alike. The name Big Ben actually refers to the largest bell inside the tower, which weighs 13.5 tons and was cast in 1858. 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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