Big Ben scaffolding

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Image courtesy of "Daily Star"

Scaffolding 'hits' Big Ben days after £80m makeover job unveiled as ... (Daily Star)

Big Ben has been tarted up after works costing £80million. A family visiting the Houses of Parliament in London were shocked to see scaffolding "thump" the ...

"There was a man in a cherry picker which was as high as they could get it and he was leaning over the edge pushing it away from the building. "As we were leaving out of the entrance, we could see all of the builders looking up and the odd workman running around looking frantic. "It hit the tower and we didn’t see anything fall but it made quite a thump."

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Image courtesy of "LADbible"

Scaffolding Smashes Into Big Ben Just Days After £80 Million ... (LADbible)

Passerby Sarah Haynes shot the eye-opening moment of impact on her smartphone on 2 April, which shows the pristine clock tower being struck by the piece of ...

“It’s been tarted up for years and has been revealed just in time for the Platinum Jubilee and yet this bit of scaffolding kept hitting it on the way down." “There was a man in a cherry picker which was as high as they could get it and he was leaning over the edge pushing it away from the building. “We were in London for a weekend away and visited the Houses of Parliament for a tour," Haynes added.

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Image courtesy of "The Miracle Tech"

Big Ben 'hit' from scaffolding days after £80m work completed (The Miracle Tech)

Footage shows a Big Ben-like staging - just days after the results of its £80 million five-year makeover were revealed.

Sarah said: “We can see that they were trying to remove this large piece of scaffolding. “It hit the tower and we didn’t see anything fall but it hit hard enough.” Big Ben was hiding behind the scaffold for five years as restoration work took place and what seemed to be a tense moment when the wind blew a little scaffold near the building.

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