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    Gillett & Johnston was a clockmaker and bell foundry based in Croydon, England from 1844 until 1957. Between 1844 and 1950, over 14,000 tower clocks were...
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    contract to Gillett & Johnston, who Selfridge had worked with a few years previously on bells for his Oxford Street store. The announcement that Gillett & Johnston...
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  • the Chapel of Our Lady at Canterbury School. Built in 1931 with 23 Gillett & Johnston bells. Simsbury: The Foreman Memorial Carillon in Simsbury United...
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  • an American nurse, and Cyril F. Johnston, an English bellfounder and clockmaker whose family firm, Gillett & Johnston, created the carillon of Riverside...
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    the clocks on the Liver Building in Liverpool; it was supplied by Gillett & Johnston of Croydon. The building faces the river and the Strand. It was described...
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    Victoria Street. Little Ben was manufactured, according to Pevsner, by Gillett & Johnston of Croydon, and was erected in 1892; removed from the site in 1964...
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    dedicated along with the rest of the newly constructed building in 1933. Gillett & Johnston cast the original 35 bells, the heaviest of which weighs 1,500 kilograms...
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    in East Anglia; it, together with the clock, was manufactured by Gillett & Johnston of Croydon. Wikimedia Commons has media related to City Hall, Norwich...
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    (12 ft) in diameter and were designed by the English engineering firm Gillett & Johnston. The building of the Montreal clock tower was directed by the Montreal...
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  • Arthur Johnston may refer to: Arthur Johnston (poet) (1579–1641), Scottish physician and poet Arthur Johnston (fl. 1877), British bell maker with Gillett &...
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    1699. Recast Gillett & Johnston, Croydon, 1935. 8th Robert Aldredg, Vicar, Ralphe Shaw, Henrie Allvie, Wardens. 1613. Recast Gillett & Johnston, Croydon,...
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    following its restoration, Gillett & Johnston and John Taylor & Company were invited to tender again. Gillett & Johnston's quote was £2,880 and John Taylor...
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    primarily constructed in the interwar period by the English bellfounders Gillett & Johnston and John Taylor & Co. Almost all of the carillons are transposing...
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    and it was replaced by a second one. The clock was manufactured by Gillett & Johnston of Croydon. The building was completed in 1897, and a dinner was held...
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    tower which is a local landmark. The clock and bells were made by Gillett & Johnston of Croydon; the clock chimes out every 15 minutes. Sculpted stone...
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    augmented to twelve with the addition of two new treble bells, cast by Gillett & Johnston of Croydon, to give Hampshire and the Diocese of Winchester its first...
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    the interwar period by the English bellfounders John Taylor & Co, Gillett & Johnston, and Whitechapel. Almost all of the carillons are transposing instruments...
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    Andrey Chokhov Cockey Royal Eijsbouts Kashpir Ganusov Vanden Gheyn Gillett & Johnston Grassmayr Miles Graye Hatch Pieter and François Hemony Christopher...
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    a memorial garden. The tower has a ring of ten bells, all cast by Gillett & Johnston of Croydon in 1912. The tower is a Grade II listed building. Christ...
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    carillon consists of forty-four bronze bells, cast and tuned at the Gillett & Johnston Foundry of Croydon, England, in 1938. The bells arrived before the...
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    building contains a carillon musical instrument of 23 bells cast by Gillett & Johnston. Detail. Detail. Old Bond Street side. Detail and street sign. List...
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    Rowe Street, contains a peal of ten change-ringing bells, cast by Gillett & Johnston in 1930. In the early 21st century, Wexford saw the redevelopment...
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    Crafts detailing. A spire features a carillon of 23 bells cast by Gillett & Johnston. The Atkinsons Building is now occupied by a Salvatore Ferragamo women's...
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    Andrey Chokhov Cockey Royal Eijsbouts Kashpir Ganusov Vanden Gheyn Gillett & Johnston Grassmayr Miles Graye Hatch Pieter and François Hemony Christopher...
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    values. The bell on the northern side of temple was cast in 1895 by Gillett & Johnston Founders, Corydon. It was one of the four quarter bells of Ghantaghar...
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    Andrey Chokhov Cockey Royal Eijsbouts Kashpir Ganusov Vanden Gheyn Gillett & Johnston Grassmayr Miles Graye Hatch Pieter and François Hemony Christopher...
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    National Pipe Organ Register. The tower contains a peal of 6 bells by Gillett & Johnston dating from 1924. The church is in a joint benefice with: Boconnoc...
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    The 1937 restoration was carried out by the Croydon bell founders, Gillett & Johnston, the bells being recast and hung in a cast-iron frame at the base...
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    23 bells in memory of his wife. These original 23 bells, cast by Gillett & Johnston in Croydon, England, are inscribed with the message "May the spirit...
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    bells in the cathedral tower hung for change ringing were cast by Gillett & Johnston of Croydon in 1925. The tenor (largest) bell weighs 1.3 tonnes and...
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