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’.<br />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.<br />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.<br />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.<br />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.<br />The clock itself has seen 51 million minutes pass by.
