Big Ben light turned on to mark wartime anniversary
Friday, 25 April 2025 () BBC Local News: London -- It is 80 years since the Ayrton Light was switched back on after World War Two blackout regulations were lifted.
The speaker of the House of Commons turned on Big Ben's symbolic light as part of the VE Day anniversary celebrations. Sir Lindsay Hoyle replicated former speaker Douglas Clifton Brown who switched on the light at the top of Big Ben in 1945, which symbolised the end of the blackouts in London during...
On Thursday evening, Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle turned on the Ayrton Light above Big Ben to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War blackouts. In peacetime, the lantern..
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