Daily Herald Photograph: Boiling metal poured into a pit during the re-casting of St. Margaret's bells

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Daily Herald Photograph: Boiling metal poured into a pit during
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Daily Herald Photograph: Boiling metal poured into a pit during
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© Hulton Archive/Getty Images

One photograph showing men pouring metal into a pit. Caption on back reads: 'Six of the peal of 10 bells of St. Margaret's, Westminster, which are being overhauled, have to be recast. These bells have done service for 200 years without overhaul. Some of them, 200 years old this year, have not had to be recast even now. These bells are the ones which have been rung to commemorate two Coronations, Armistice 1918, at every election or re-election of the Speaker of the House of Commons, and whenever the King has passed the church on a State visit to Westminster. They are also rung on Sundays, instead of those of the Abbey, which are rung only on special occasions. Photo shows - A fiery stream of boiling metal pours into a pit before the furnace as one of the treble bells of St. Margaret's, melted down, is recast at Croydon Foundry. Fox, Nov 17, 39'.

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Category:
Photographs
Collection:
Daily Herald Archive
Object Number:
1983-5236/46377
Materials:
paper
type:
photographic print