Should we just get a few details straight? So we're going to have to climb how many feet?

All together to the belfry, 205.

And how many steps is that?

334.

So you've got to be pretty fit?

Yes.

What about the actual title of the place? We think of it as Big Ben, the Tower of Big Ben. Is that actually the title

for it? It's the clock tower. It says so on the door here. So where did Big Ben come from?

Big Ben is the nickname of the Great Bell. Official name, Great Bell, but everybody calls

the Big Bell, Big Ben.

It's a wonderful spiral staircase for this wrought iron balustrade in looking up.

Goodness, it's the opposite of vertigo. You're looking up layer after layer of the spiral staircase.

I think you've got a good head for heights.

So John, when was the clock tower built?

It was completed 1859.

And who designed it?

Barry.

Charles Barry, together with Augustus Pugin.

He was interested in the decorative side of it.

Let's save our breath of the climb.

Phew, we've arrived at moderately level ground.

Where are we now, John?

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