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|name = The Big Ben | |||
|image = Big Ben destroyed.jpg | |||
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|type = [[Clock]] bell/tower | |||
|origin = [[London]], [[England]] | |||
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|appearances = [[TV]]: "[[Strangers in Space]]", ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'', ''[[Aliens of London (TV story)|Aliens of London]]'', ''[[The Empty Child (TV story)|The Empty Child]]'', ''[[Love & Monsters (TV story)]]'', ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'' ''[[The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith (TV story)|The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith]]'' ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Clockwise Man (novel)|The Clockwise Man]]'', ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'', ''[[No Future (novel)|No Future]]'', ''[[Legacy of the Daleks (novel)|Legacy of the Daleks]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[Hotel Historia (comic story)|Hotel Historia]]''}} | |||
'''The Big Ben''' was the name of the [[clock]] bell and, by popular convention, the entire tower on the north end of the [[Houses of Parliament|Palace of Westminster]]. Completed in [[1858]], it was located in the city of [[Westminster]], in central [[London]].{{fact}} | |||
== History == | == History == | ||
[[Clara Oswald]], while serving as a governess under the alias | In [[1892]], [[Clara Oswald]], while serving as a governess under the alias Miss Montegue, claimed to her young charges that [[23 November|she was born]] behind Big Ben's face. She explainted that it accounted for her acute sense of [[time]]. ([[TV]] ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'') | ||
In [[1924]], [[Shade Vassily]] planned to use Big Ben to power his ship. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Clockwise Man]]'') | In [[1924]], [[Shade Vassily]] planned to use Big Ben to power his ship. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Clockwise Man]]'') | ||
In [[January]] [[1941]], [[Jack Harkness]] tethered his ship to Big Ben. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Child]]'') | |||
In [[1976]], Big Ben's clock face was bombed by [[Black Star]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'', ''[[No Future (novel)|No Future]]'') | In [[1976]], Big Ben's clock face was bombed by [[Black Star]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'', ''[[No Future (novel)|No Future]]'') | ||
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[[File:In front of the clock.jpg|left|thumb|[[Rose Tyler]] and [[Jack Harkness]] dance upon a [[Chula Warship]], tethered to Big Ben. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Child]]'')]] | [[File:In front of the clock.jpg|left|thumb|[[Rose Tyler]] and [[Jack Harkness]] dance upon a [[Chula Warship]], tethered to Big Ben. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Child]]'')]] | ||
The [[Eleventh Doctor]] barely avoided crashing [[the Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] into Big Ben as he attempted to stabilize it following his [[regeneration]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'') | The [[Eleventh Doctor]] barely avoided crashing [[the Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] into Big Ben as he attempted to stabilize it following his [[regeneration]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'') | ||
In [[2009]], in an [[alternate timeline]] created by [[Sarah Jane]]'s actions in [[1951]] in which the world was destroyed, [[Luke Smith|Luke]], Sarah and [[the Trickster]] stood near the remains of Big Ben. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith]]'') | In [[2009]], in an [[alternate timeline]] created by [[Sarah Jane]]'s actions in [[1951]] in which the world was destroyed, [[Luke Smith|Luke]], Sarah and [[the Trickster]] stood near the remains of Big Ben. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith]]'') | ||
On [[12 September]] [[2012]], Big Ben's tower was named Elizabeth Tower in honour of [[Elizabeth II]]. | On [[12 September]] [[2012]], Big Ben's tower was named Elizabeth Tower in honour of [[Elizabeth II]]. {{fact}} | ||
In [[2167]], the chimes of Big Ben rang for the first time in years to celebrate the end of the [[22nd century Dalek invasion]] after the [[First Doctor]] defeated the [[Dalek]]s. Despite the initial bombardment prior to the invasion, Big Ben was unscathed. It still stood thirty years later. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy of the Daleks]]'') | In [[2167]], the chimes of Big Ben rang for the first time in years to celebrate the end of the [[22nd century Dalek invasion]] after the [[First Doctor]] defeated the [[Dalek]]s. Despite the initial bombardment prior to the invasion, Big Ben was unscathed. It still stood thirty years later. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Legacy of the Daleks]]'') | ||
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