This foundry is the oldest manufacturing company in the UK and is still making bells at 32/34 Whitechapel Road. Probably their most famous creation is (we thank Alice, a member of a children's history club, for providing this excellent link). The history pages of our picture source are extensive (but, 2022, defunct).
2016: Sadly we learnt that and the building will be sold. published a good history of the foundry. !!
2021: The long - it will become a bell-themed boutique hotel.
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Whitechapel Bell Foundry
The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall carried out the first ringing...
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This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Whitechapel Bell Foundry
The quotation, from Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', was spoken by Kenneth Branag...
Records are sparse but it seems Mason owned a shop in St James's Market and in 1734 was appointed as porter at "His Majesty's Royal Palace of Somerset House". See William Fortnum for a few more wor...
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Former publican of the George and Devonshire in Chiswick. Father of Arthur Howell Burden, who was assistant purser on the RMS Lusitania, and who died when the ship was torpedoed. The Lusitania Res...
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