Whitechapel Bell Foundry - Photo gallery
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(1) Whitechapel Bell Foundry
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(2) Foundry seen from street
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(3) Sign of the Bell Foundry
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(4) Looking down towards works
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(5) Bell Foundry side entrance
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(6) Front entrance to Bell Foundry
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(7) Foundry office in Whitechapel Rd.
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(8) Foundry looking towards Aldgate
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(9) Whitechapel Bell Foundry
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(10) Plaque for Baynes Street
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(11) Quad Centenary Award
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(12) Large bells in foundry yard
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(13) Bells at the foundry
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(14) Drying oven for molds
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(15) A bell mold maker
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(16) Traditional foundry tools
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(17) More tools for bell casting
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(18) The mold container
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(19) The foundry workspace
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(20) Largest of the two furnaces
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(21) Small bell casting in sand
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(22) Tuning a large bell
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(23) Old bells awaiting service
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(24) Bells sent for renovating
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(25) Almost 500 years old
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(26) The bells are very heavy
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(27) Some bells need new clappers
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(28) The hand bell workshop
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(29) The dead foundry workers
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(30) Upstairs in the woodwork shop
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(31) Tuning a set of hand bells
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(32) Tuning a much larger bell
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(33) Whitechapel Bell Foundry yard
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(34) Very loud modern bell
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(35) Old bell on foundry wall
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(36) Scrapped bells in foundry yard
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(37) Set of bells made at foundry
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(38) Some very large bells
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(39) A wall with the Whitechapel sign
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(40) Clock and bell above back door
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(41) Whitechapel Bell Foundry yard
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(42) Whitechapel Bell Foundry yard
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(43) Very old container
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(44) Internally polished bells
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(45) Model of the foundry
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(46) Lettering used on Big Ben
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(47) For whom the bell tolls!
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