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Description
This 19th-century prison bell used to ring out across Northallerton in the early morning to wake the town – and the inmates. In the prison’s early days it also signalled that bread was ready to be collected, using grains ground by prisoners on the famous treadmills.
The bell bears the names 'Mears and Stainbank', showing that it was cast in the Whitechapel bell foundry in London, which also produced the famous Liberty Bell and Big Ben.