Daily Herald Photograph: Looking down on the bells for Michigan University and Buckfast Abbey.

PART OF:
The photographic library of the 'Daily Herald' newspaper
Made:
1936-03-30 in Loughborough
Daily Herald Photograph: Looking down on the bells for Michigan Daily Herald Photograph: Looking down on the bells for Michigan

Daily Herald Photograph: Looking down on the bells for Michigan
Science Museum Group
© Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Daily Herald Photograph: Looking down on the bells for Michigan
Science Museum Group
© Hulton Archive/Getty Images

One photograph showing top view of bells in foundry at Loughborough, soon to be shipped to Michigan University and Buckfast Abbey. Caption on back reads: '100 bells have just been cast at Taylor's bell foundry at Loughborough. They are shortly to be shipped to Michigan University and Springfield (Mass). The biggest bell weighs eleven tons. Photo shows - Looking down on the giants. The bell in the background weighs eleven tons and is the biggest for Michigan University. That in the foreground is for Buckfast Abbey, Devon. Fox, March 30th, 36'.

Details

Category:
Photographs
Collection:
Daily Herald Archive
Object Number:
1983-5236/46370
Materials:
paper
type:
photographic print