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Spitalfields Life reports that the Whitechapel Bell Foundry is to close. This is one of London’s oldest companies, founded in 1570 and based at its present site for 250 years. I met the owner of the foundry in 2015, and wrote this piece for Completely...

Updated 12/29/16 at 10 a.m. to correct a typo.—Editor On December 1, 2016, the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in London, U.K., issued the following press release: 1st December 2016 Whitechapel Bell Foundry Ltd announces, with regret, that by May 2017 it...

The Whitechapel Bell Foundry is a bell foundry in Whitechapel in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, and is the oldest manufacturing company in Great Britain. The foundry’s main business is the bell founding and manufacture of church bells and their...

By Linda Tancs London’s Whitechapel Bell Foundry is listed in Guinness World Records as Britain’s oldest manufacturing company. How old, however, is a matter of debate. Once thought to be established in 1570 (during Queen Elizabeth I’s reign), additional...

If you were to believe everything you see on  ITV1’s drama Whitechapel, this east London neighbourhood, cast perpetually in darkness, is rife with serial killers copying historic murders. On top of this, it’s portrayed as a maze of...