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Big Ben is a location in AMC's The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. It is the clock tower which stands at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London, England.
Pre-Apocalypse
Elizabeth Tower, originally named the Clock Tower, and popularly known as "Big Ben", was built as a part of Charles Barry's design for a new Palace of Westminster after the old palace was largely destroyed by fire on 16 October 1834. Although Barry was the chief architect of the neo-gothic palace, he turned to Augustus Pugin for the design of the Clock Tower, which resembles earlier designs by Pugin, including one for Scarisbrick Hall, a country house in Lancashire. Construction of the tower began on 28 September 1843. The building contractors were Thomas Grissell and Morton Peto. An inscribed trowel in the Parliamentary Archives records that Emily, sister of Peto's daughter-in-law, was given the honour of laying the first stone. It was Pugin's last design before his descent into mental illness and death in 1852, and Pugin himself wrote, at the time of Barry's last visit to him to collect the drawings, "I never worked so hard in my life for Mr Barry for tomorrow I render all my designs for finishing his bell tower and it is beautiful".
Post-Apocalypse
During his many years living alone in the ruins of London, Julian Chamberlain teaches himself how to operate Big Ben as a way of drawing off herds for awhile.
Season 3
"Costa Da Morte"
Daryl Dixon and Carol Peletier pass Big Ben on their way into London.
Three days later at 10:00am, Julian Chamberlain rings Big Ben's bells to draw off the massive herd trapping Daryl and Carol in a London Apartment Building across the city.
Inhabitants
- None
Appearances
Daryl Dixon
Season 3
Trivia
- Julian using Big Ben to redirect herds is similar to Molly's tactic of using the bells around Savannah, Georgia in The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series episode "Around Every Corner".