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.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Whitechapel Bell Foundry
The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall carried out the first ringing...
Murals are often rather fun puzzles so do have a go identifying what you can ...
Our picture comes from Google satellite view and shows, better than can be se...
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...
Many of the Huguenots that arrived here in the 16th and 17th centuries were skilled silk weavers and set up looms in their homes in Spitalfields. The Spitalfields textile trade thrived until the mi...
Furniture designer and retailer. Born at Crouch End. Studied at the Slade School of Fine Art before joining the family firm which ran the Heal & Son department store. He designed the simple, st...
British History On-line credits Cusworth with the Newby Place monument.  Mapping Sculpture provides some information. The stone masons John Cusworth & Sons was active 1825-79, at least two ge...
Company, based in Portland Place, founded by Lord Paul, specialising predominantly in the manufacture of steel, automotive and general engineering products.
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