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Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Stencil plate for numbers 1,2,3,4,5, 1850-1913

1850-1913

Foot rule (folding to 3") with sliding brass calliper

circa 1827

Daily Herald Photograph: Rent strike

1939-05-25

Daily Herald Photograph: Liverpool Cathedral bell being cast at the foundry in Whitechapel

1938-12-09

Daily Herald Photograph: Bell foundry

1935-03-06

Daily Herald Photograph: Moulding a cone ready for casting

1935-10-29

Daily Herald Photograph: Tuning a bell on a giant lathe

1935-08-29

Daily Herald Photograph: Bell foundry

1935-03-06

Daily Herald Photograph: Rent strike

1939-01-08

Daily Herald Photograph: Casting Liverpool Cathedral bell

1938-12-16

Vectis, Lever, steel and ebony

1832-1900

Stencil for numbers 6,7,8,9,10

1850-1913

Stencil for the letter B

1850-1913

Advert for Braham Company of Whitechapel, Stencil Makers, 1850-1913

1850-1913
Bell-shaped mortar, everted rim, 2 moulded foot rings, pedestal base, 2 bands of decoration around waist, Whitechapel foundry, London, England, 1684-1705

Bell-shaped mortar

1684-1705
One photograph showing bell founders with Cardinal Wolsey's bell. Used in the Daily Herald newspaper 14th October 1933. Caption on back reads: 'A 24 ton bell, given to the Sherborne Abbey in Dorset by Cardinal Wolsey, has been brought to London with its peal-fellows, to be re-tuned in a Whitechapel bell foundry. The peal is the heaviest of its range in England. Photo shows: Cardinal Wolsey's bell (nearest camera) in the hands of the bell founders at Whitechapel. RID 83373 '.

Daily Herald Photograph: Sherborne Abbey bell re-tuned in Whitechapel

1933-10
One photograph showing man scraping muffin-bells, 16th September 1933. Crop marks included. Caption on back reads: 'Scores of muffin bells, made from an age-old pattern cast, are being produced at a Whitechapel bell foundry in response to a brisk demand in readiness for the forthcoming 'season'. The majority of the orders for new bells have come from provincial centres, where the muffin-man seems to be in a prosperous way of business. Photo shows: A Whitechapel bell-founder scraping muffin bells just after they had been taken out of the casting pattern. RID 83139'.

Daily Herald Photograph: Whitechapel bell-founder scraping muffin bells

1933-09-16
Photograph by John Chillingworth entitled 'Whitechapel Girl', 1951.

Whitechapel Girl

1951
Photographs by Don McCullin of Whitechapel, London, 1984

Photographs of Whitechapel

London News Agency photograph showing a nurse watching over a male patient who has been hooked up to an electro-encepahlograph. The machine measures brain waves.

Twenty minutes with the brain wave machine

25 April 1950
Brass and ivory handled scarificator, with 6 lancets, in leather covered case, by Fuller, 239 Whitechapel Road, London, England, 1832-1860.

Scarificator with six lancets in case

1832-1860
Wooden pole lathe used for brass finishing, in possession of Thomas Noakes and Sons Ltd for nearly a century; one mounted photograph of old pole lathe in situ

Wooden pole lathe

circa 1800