Whitechapel Bell Foundry, a set on Flickr.
The Whitechapel Bell Foundry (Britain's oldest manufacturing company) is the last example in the area of a once typical industry. The City of London pushed out its smellier industries to the east, as the prevailing winds were form the west. Brass-founding, gun-founding and bell-founding all congregated in the Aldgate and Whitechapel area. The Whitechapel Bell Foundry is one of two bell foundries working in Britain. it employs about 30 people and hangs bells as well as cast and tunes them. Click on thumbnails above for details of the process , for an archaeological investigation of "copper-alloy founding" on a nearby site see Sygrave, pages 77-98 on http://www.lamas.org.uk/archives/transactions-archive/Vol%2056.pdf
more of the history and technique from their website http://www.whitechapelbellfoundry.co.uk/
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The Whitechapel Bell Foundry (Britain's oldest manufacturing company) is the last example in the area of a once typical industry. The City of London pushed out its smellier industries to the east, as the prevailing winds were form the west. Brass-founding, gun-founding and bell-founding all congregated in the Aldgate and Whitechapel area. The Whitechapel Bell Foundry is one of two bell foundries working in Britain. it employs about 30 people and hangs bells as well as cast and tunes them. Click on thumbnails above for details of the process , for an archaeological investigation of "copper-alloy founding" on a nearby site see Sygrave, pages 77-98 on http://www.lamas.org.uk/archives/transactions-archive/Vol%2056.pdf
more of the history and technique from their website http://www.whitechapelbellfoundry.co.uk/
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