1967: HOW does BIG BEN BONG? | Blue Peter | Science and Nature | BBC Archive

[@yorgokarna6801]

Notice how John's accent gets more posh when he's talking to the Clock Master 😂

[@fredo1070]

The Clock Master looks so happy that someone is interested in his job.

[@dawnyWestScotland]

Oh yes, made me giggle 😆

[@TheRealSmithFamily]

Completely apparent even to me. 🇺🇸

[@petergivenbless900]

I thought he might have been mocking him, cheeky!

[@dawnyWestScotland]

@@petergivenbless900 I did wonder 😆

[@fredo1070]

These old documentaries are like gold dust. And you can see Old St Thomas Hospital.

[@AtheistOrphan]

Blue Peter wasn’t really a documentary.

[@fredo1070]

@@AtheistOrphan I grew up thinking Blue Peter was a children's show. But watching these old clips show how grown up and adult Blue Peter was, especially compared to modern TV , like the One Show.

[@AtheistOrphan]

@@fredo1070 - I Totally agree. Television has certainly dumbed down!

[@RaveDave871]

Nothing excites me more than big clock 😝

[@michael7286]

Never used to miss Blue Peter back in the early days with my favourite presenters - John Noakes, Peter Purves, Valerie Singleton.

[@nigden1]

I remember the delightful Valerie Singleton confessing that Peter Perves had given her a good seeing to. This triggered a lengthy period of Onanistic indulgence for teenage boys, Val was lusted after. Peter Purves was thenceby referred to as Peter Pervert.

[@Lord-Sméagol]

Don't forget Jason, Petra and 'Get down, Shep!'

[@RaveDave871]

"16 tons and whata ya get..." burst eardrums ya prat !

[@jasonayres]

"England swings like a pendulum do Bobbies on bicycles, two by two Westminster Abbey, the tower of Big Ben The rosy-red cheeks of the little children." (Roger Miller. 1965) Seeing John stand next to the bell reminded me of this once popular old song.

[@AtheistOrphan]

I love the way they always used to say “We took Blue Peter cameras to….”

[@atomictraveller]

i'm surprised you can still say blue peter without getting banned.

[@deanmarskell1518]

So interesting to see how big Ben works ❤

[@AtheistOrphan]

6:43

[@dawnyWestScotland]

Really loved this! 💛 Great childhood memories of Blue Peter!

[@PhilofBristol]

It's a wonder that John Noakes wasn't expected to climb up the outside!! I'm too young to remember this (only about 9/10 weeks old when it was first shown) but this is so typical of the really interesting articles that John, Pete, and the other Blue Peter presenters brought us every week.

[@Kenny_P_abz]

Years later Peter Duncan was outside cleaning the clock face on a bosuns chair with no safety rope.

[@City523noahfox-tn5dm]

Imagine the pain you'd feel if you got your finger caught between the bell and the hammer and then the hammer striking right on your finger, they would probably think the clock was broken because the bell wouldn't sound

[@SarahCattell-v3j]

Even though this is old Big Ben hasn't changed over the years so this is still pretty accurate.

[@RUSH2112RUSH]

Big Ben: I am a Legend John Noakes: Hold my pint...

[@Flip5ide]

Excellent, thank you!

[@carmelaaragones4841]

I could barely hear the bell, but you can tell that it sounds like concrete 💀 6:48

[@philipmilner9638]

I can remember this when it was first on Blue Peter

[@evd]

07:49 He had no ear plugs?? I've been up there on a recent tour. That bell is damn loud!

[@ShantekaGlenn-cv8ek]

So cool that big Ben sounds different today

[@andrewmwells9606]

Amazing how he stood there without ear protectors listening to the bell, also. I think there is a lift in there now

[@Smudgie]

I'm pretty certain I viewed Valerie Singleton as a surrogate mother.

[@ShantekaGlenn-cv8ek]

So you see there’s that one table alone in the heart of the Elizabeth Tower it strikes the big bell

[@jim854]

'I could go and live up there with a gong and I could gong the gong to make the bong and hum the bim bom.'

[@EnderiumYT]

The time in this video is 9AM or 9PM (there were 9 tolls)

[@fan22_official]

1957 Big Ben

[@G6JPG]

"Every time there's a climbing job to be done, it always seems to be me that goes." Accompanied by a man lugging a 1960s TV (or film) camera, of course!

[@kunaeng5315]

7:32 changed voice

[@VladyslavKulyk-h3w]

2:52 THE SECRET CLOCK ON THE WINDOW!!!😮😮😮😮😮

[@abbbielittle]

Does anyone know if this is still how it works today? I know Big Ben underwent construction a few years ago.

[@carwashslayer4235]

7:32 the chimes sound lower wonder why

[@NYGuy12344]

well its the video quality

[@FTBFHRITP]

This is close to how they originally sounded. Originally tuned to G# F# E and B they sound closer to A G F C today I’m guessing because as time goes on metal wears off causing them to sharpen

[@carwashslayer4235]

@ True that makes sense

[@bigboyshassen59]

OI IT’S 7 BONG

[@jamesnicholson2503]

My knees was alright i'd run that,315 foot up i'd go.

[@jamesnicholson2503]

Its a wonder he never had hearing trouble.

[@misspurrr-fect3684]

Education under the guise of a Childrens tv programme , how times have changed .

[@dawnyWestScotland]

I wasn’t thought of until the 70’s though!😂

[@JJONNYREPP]

Just like I had to do with the stylus arm on my record player...as a kid.

[@jamesnicholson2503]

I, shouldn't say this when he put that glass back in,I would have laughed my head off,if the glass had bowed the other way & fell out,my God that would have been mad!!

[@djtomoy]

Some sort of bell maybe 🤔

[@dogbreath8396]

Now in London its ……Bing Bong in the bubble coat

[@dodgeboy9052]

Who has the most Photographed face in the World .... common Not the hard ... ?

[@jamesnicholson2503]

16 ton? 13.5/ 13 and half ton.

[@jamesnicholson2503]

13.5 ton not bloody 16.

[@karlmurray4479]

Try saying that a few times when your pissed😆

[@singinglift409]

ANYONE WHO CAN HEAR HORSEGAURDS PARADE CLOCK HAS SUPER HEARING

[@jamesnicholson2503]

315 foot.

[@robinvanags912]

So - time really is money.

[@jamesnicholson2503]

Why has is voice changed to posh?

[@HangKhach-qf4nh]

9:00

[@jamesnicholson2503]

Its 315 ft not 16.

[@singinglift409]

THE REASON WHY IS BECAUSE THE TOWER HAS BEEN TILTING OVER THE PAST 50 YEARS, AND IT HAS GOT TO THE POINT THAT THE TOWER IS 1 FEET SHORTER, THAN IN THE PAST

[@jamesnicholson2503]

@@singinglift409 Where in the tower is the lift please?

[@singinglift409]

@@jamesnicholson2503 THERE IS NO LIFT

[@jamesnicholson2503]

@@singinglift409 There is now,is there small windows in the?👍

[@singinglift409]

@@jamesnicholson2503 NO THERE IS NOT

[@atomictraveller]

bong.. hotbox that mfr :) (tucson, many decades later)