Restoration of Nottingham Council House Clock & Bell to Resolve Chiming Problems 🕰️

The historic Little John bell at the top of Nottingham Council House has fallen silent for two months while the near 100-year-old clock is serviced to fix ‘chiming issues’.
A senior Nottingham councillor says he also hopes the rest of the Council House, in Old Market Square, could be given a spruce-up in time for its centenary anniversary by the end of the decade.
At 12pm on Tuesday (September 2) the bells in the building’s 200ft domed roof chimed for the last time ahead of a 10-week restoration project.
Work on the clock and its gearbox will be the most time-consuming element of the project, but the Little John bell and its smaller siblings will be serviced too while out of action.
While the bells were last silenced during the Second World War, it is estimated Little John could have chimed up to 3.8 million times since 1928.
The clock itself has seen 51 million minutes pass by.