Researched by Richard Curtis, Lead Volunteer on Collections. Vistors to the Charles Burrell Museum can ring the brass bell that governed the working day at the St Nicholas Works, but few understand its history or purpose. The Burrell Bell was cast by John Warner & Sons in 1859 of Jewin Street in the Cripplegate area of London. Charles Burrell would have been aware of this firm because they were also respected hydraulic engineers. They made ‘every description of machinery for raising water by means of wheels, rams, deep well pumps, &c’, devices that they demonstrated at the same Royal Agricultural [...]