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The Audio Long Read

The bells v the boutique hotel: the battle to save Britain’s oldest factory – podcast

The Audio Long Read

The Guardian

Society & Culture

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Whitechapel Bell Foundry dates back to 1570, and was the factory in which Big Ben and the Liberty Bell were made. But it shut in 2017, and a fight for its future has been raging ever since. By Hettie O’Brien. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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The bells versus the boutique hotel, the battle to save Britain's oldest factory.

0:59.1

Whitechappel Bell Fandry dates back to 1570 and was the factory in which Big Ben and the

1:04.4

Liberty Bell were made, but it's shut in 2017 and a fight for its future has been raging

1:10.7

ever since.

1:12.9

By Hetty O'Brien, read by Emma Powell and produced by Esther Apoco Jenny.

1:20.1

On a November evening in 2019, Nigel Taylor, who had until recently been the longest standing

1:26.4

employee at the oldest factory in England, took a seat inside a council chamber in the shadow

1:32.2

of Canary Wharf in London.

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