| Year | 1956 |
| Date | 23-Feb |
| Volume | 114 |
| Issue | 2,857 |
| Page | 296 |
| Category | General |
| Part | |
| Title | The Story of Big Ben |
| Author | C.E.Page |
| Notes | Cast in the north (at Norton, Stockton-on-Tees), the first crack, copper deficit, a clock expert (E.B.Denison, E.J.Dent), bomb damage to the spring, stopped by snow |