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The speaker says they have contacted record-keeping institutions tied to historic “old world” structures and that the responses will “shock the world,” beginning with the Cathedral of All Saints in Albany, New York, and then the Great Clock of Westminster (Big Ben/Elizabeth Clock Tower) in London.
They describe emailing the Albany Institute of History and Art to confirm whether its collection includes the original architectural blueprints and structural drawings for the Cathedral of All Saints in Albany. The speaker frames the cathedral as supposedly built from 1884 to 1888 without power tools and argues that blueprints should exist for a structure of that scale. The Albany Institute of History and Art replies that, after looking through folders, it does not see blueprints and “doesn’t have the receipts to the building.” The institution also says it does not see material related to mechanicals and that none of the records from the building have been digitized. The speaker highlights additional claims that the records are too oversized to access, that there is no librarian on staff, and that no one can provide digital images because they cannot digitize the records. The speaker states that where other drawings exist (described as tissue tracings folded into drawers), they are not final blueprints and do not provide load-bearing calculations or construction measurements, and insists that no actual construction or engineering plans were found.
The speaker then pivots to Big Ben and the Elizabeth Clock Tower. They describe being in contact with the parliamentary archives about claims that Big Ben was commissioned, funded, and built as part of the Palace of Westminster reconstruction after a supposed 1834 fire. They say they emailed to ask whether the Parliamentary Archives or any associated archive holds original materials related to the Great Clock of Westminster, including original blueprints, engineering drawings, ledgers, engineering calculations, specifications, records of communications between architect and builder, photographs of construction, and inspection certificates.
The Parliamentary Archives reply, according to the speaker, that they have “surprisingly few architectural drawings” and that they do not have construction records requested, which the speaker says would prove Big Ben and the Elizabeth Clock Tower were built in the 1800s. The speaker presses further, asking whether the Parliamentary Archives has ever held a complete set of original drawings and what happened to them. The speaker says the archives respond that the architectural drawings and the requested blueprints were never part of the Parliamentary Archives collections, stating that they were not produced by Parliament. The speaker links this to the Public Records Act of 1838, claiming that records created by government departments must be preserved as public property and that construction began after the law took effect. They argue that if the project was government funded and approved, the records should have existed and been preserved, presenting the archives’ position as a contradiction with the stated government-history narrative.
The speaker then says they contacted the National Archives at Kew after being told that government records, including those about construction of Big Ben, would be held there. They describe the National Archives replying that they cannot confirm the existence of records related to the construction of Big Ben and advising the speaker to look through records themselves. Immediately afterward, the speaker says the National Archives states that those collections are currently being transferred and will not be open to the public until 2026, which the speaker interprets as inaccessible records while urging public searching.
Overall, the speaker asserts that multiple institutions failed to provide requested original blueprints, mechanical/engineering documentation, or digitized records, and they frame this as evidence that the documentation supporting mainstream construction timelines is missing or unavailable, culminating in a “legal paper trail” involving the Public Records Act of 1838 and the institutions’ inability to confirm the requested construction records.