Earlier this month, Whitechapel Bell Foundry announced it was closing its doors after more than 400 years in operation. The company's renowned work includes the Liberty Bell, Big Ben and the "Gros ...

Housing minister Luke Hall has approved 31/44 Architects’ plans to revamp the Grade II*-listed Whitechapel Bell Foundry in east London – and to extend the building with a boutique hotel The ...

78 per cent copper – is poured into a mould at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in London’s East End. The foundry – listed by Guinness World Records as the oldest manufacturing firm in Britain ...

East London’s Whitechapel Bell Foundry Ltd., a company nearly five centuries old, cast many of these colonial voices, including the 12 bells stashed during the Revolutionary War. In a statement ...

The Whitechapel Bell Foundry was London's longest running family business, a place that cast Big Ben, the US Liberty Bell and thousands more. Then, at the tail end of 2016, the foundry announced ...

Whitechapel Bell Foundry closed in June 2017, having cast bells in the East End for almost 450 years. But some campaigners refuse to see the institution go. The East End Preservation Society has ...

A family-run French bell foundry and high-tech Baltimore ... The 2,080-pound bronze original was forged at the Whitechapel Foundry in England in 1752. (The nickname came much later, when ...

Members of the art world have spoken out against plans to turn a historic bell foundry, where Big Ben was cast, into a boutique hotel. Proposals to change the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in east ...

In 1751, the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly shelled out 100 pounds to London’s Whitechapel Bell Foundry for a bell to hang in the State House (known post-Revolution as Independence Hall).

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