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A clock tower is a Tower built with one or more (often four) easily-seen Clock faces.The clock tower is usually part of a church or municipal building such as a Town Hall , but many clock towers are free-standing. The mechanism inside the tower is known as a Turret Clock . It often marks the hour (and sometimes segments of an hour) by sounding large Bell s or Chime s, sometimes playing simple musical phrases or tunes. Although clock towers are today mostly admired for their aesthetics, they once served an important purpose. Before the middle of the Twentieth Century , most people did not have watches; clock towers were therefore placed near the centers of towns and were often the tallest structures there. Three of the best-known clock towers are the clock tower which houses Big Ben (often itself colloquially referred to as Big Ben) of the Palace Of Westminster in London , the Rajabai Tower in Mumbai , and the Spasskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin . The Clock Tower in Leicester , England, is a major landmark in the city, owing somewhat to the fact that it is the de rigueur meeting point in the city. GALLERY |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/Stornoway" class="copylinks">Stornoway Town Centre in Scotland |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/Cornell_University" class="copylinks">Cornell University in Ithaca, New York |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/Palace_of_Westminster" class="copylinks">Palace Of Westminster in London , England |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/Rajabai_Tower" class="copylinks">Rajabai Tower , a clock tower in South Mumbai , India |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/Kremlin_towers#Spasskaya" class="copylinks">Spasskaya Tower is the main tower with a through-passage on the eastern wall of the Moscow Kremlin , overlooking Red Square |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/Tsim_Sha_Tsui" class="copylinks">Tsim Sha Tsui , Kowloon , Hong Kong was originally part of the former Kowloon Station of the Kowloon-Canton Railway The station was demolished in the 1970s |
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| "http://wwwinformationdelightinfo/encyclopedia/entry/Parliament_Hill" class="copylinks">Parliament Hill Ottawa , Canada |
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