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"This modest building on Whitechapel Road, with a front doorway cut in the curved outline of a bell, was the Whitechapel Bell Foundry. Walk up to that doorway and you literally step through the profile of a bell — and until a few years ago, this was the oldest manufacturing company in all of Britain, casting bells continuously since fifteen seventy, on this road since seventeen thirty-nine."
Hear the full story in the app — narrated and timed to play right where you're standing.
The Reveal
This stop is part of the tour’s larger story. An optional reveal at the end lets you revisit which details stayed perfectly honest and which got a little extra help.
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Hear the full story at The Whitechapel Bell Foundry
This is just one of 9 stops on the The East End & Whitechapel tour. Download the app, put in your headphones, and experience it for real.
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