Tours start in Westminster Hall, which hosted the Lying-in-State of Queen Elizabeth II last year, before crossing New Palace Yard to the Elizabeth Tower. It's also the first time that international visitors will be allowed inside, as previously UK residents had to organise tours through their own MP. It's the first time that the full public tours have been restarted since the lengthy conservation project on the tower, which silenced the bells for several years, and cloaked the world-famous clock faces under scaffolding - though shorter, preview tours were offered earlier this year. Climb the 334 steps of the Elizabeth Tower. Now the public is being given a chance to climb up 334 steps inside it, and stand next to the bell as it strikes the hour - which, given that the first incarnation of the "unearthly, sepulchral" bell made people's "marrow creep", sounds like quite a challenge on the lugholes.
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