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Whitechapel Bell Foundry

 

Today Peter and I went on a guided tour at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry.

Whitechapel Bell Foundry, known to be established in 1570, is the oldest manufacturing company in the UK. Bells of all sorts and sizes are manufactured, ranging from large church bells to musical hand bells, ship’s bells, level crossing warning bells, and a wide range of small bells for domestic clocks, pocket watches and musical boxes.

Two very famous bells came from this Bell Foundry: A bell originally cast at the Foundry in 1752 for the State House in Philadelphia and later known as the Liberty Bell and in 1858 they cast Big Ben, a 13,5-ton hour Bell at the Palace of Westminster.