[RWCentenary] Open Morning at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry

[RW Centenary News]

The Whitechapel Bell Foundry will be open to 
visitors on the Ringing World Centenary 
Celebration Day on 26th March. The doors will 
open at 8.30am. and last admissions will be at 
1pm to allow enough time for visitors to complete 
their visit and travel to Westminster Abbey for 
the 3pm Service and the Centenary Tea at Central Hall.

This is not just a visit to a factory, on your 
tour you will follow in the footsteps of Royalty, 
take a trip into bell history, see displays of 
the making of tower bells and their fittings, 
small bells and handbells. Our gift shop will be 
open and specially for this day children will be welcome!

In order to accommodate the number who may wish 
to visit, the narrow stair case access to the 
handbell and carpenters’ workshops – which are 
usually part of our guided tours – will not be 
open on that day, and an exhibit of these skills 
is therefore being mounted at ground floor level.

Following approval of this plan by our insurers, 
we are pleased to announce that we have been able 
make special provision on the day to welcome 
families with children, and our usual age 
restriction preventing under-14s access into the 
manufacturing area will be lifted on the Centenary Day only.

Kathryn Hughes
Whitechapel Bell Foundry Ltd.