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Johanna Hill (d. 1441) and Johanna Sturdy (fl. 1459) were English bell-makers. Successively running the same bell-foundry in Aldgate, London in the fifteenth century, they produced church bells that were used all over the south of England. Johanna Hill Johanna Hill, who may have been from Surrey, was married to bell-maker Richard Hill. When he died in May 1440, Johanna took over their foundry in the parish of St Botolph, Aldgate. She oversaw four apprentices and a household of twenty people. Seven of the bells she produced survive, bearing her stamp, which is a copy of her husband’s stamp surmounted by a lozenge containing a floret or cross, signalling that it belonged to a woman. Johanna Hill’s stamp is found on bells in Devon, Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Suffolk and Sussex. She died in May 1441, leaving the St Botolph bell-foundry to her daughter, also called Johanna, and Johanna’s husband Henry Jordan. Johanna Sturdy By the 1450s the St Botolph bell-foundry was owned by bellmaker John Sturdy alias Leicester and his wife Johanna Sturdy. By 1459, John had died and Johanna had taken over the foundry, as shown by her correspondence about the warranty for a bell she was supplying to Faversham, Kent. Ten of her bells survive and, like Johanna Hill’s, bear a stamp which was her husband’s mark surmounted by a lozenge. References. Discover the Johanna Bell popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Johanna Bell books.
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God Jul
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The Post Office Girls
Poppy CooperWith the Great War raging, can they keep Britain going? 1915. On Beth Healey's eighteenth birthday, she hopes that she will be able to forget the ghastly war and celebrate. But tha...
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The Runaway Girl
Elsie Mason1918. Fleeing from her past, Cathy Carmichael is new to the Sixteen Streets. She has nothing to her name, no plan and nowhere to go.Cathy thinks she's struck gold when she runs int...
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A Post Office Christmas
Poppy CooperCurl up with the perfect festive saga read! Can they deliver hope and friendship this Christmas? 1915. After the recent dramatic events at the Home Depot, Milly Woods is looking fo...
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Hope Comes to Emmerdale
Kerry BellThe perfect Mother's Day gift full of nostalgia and warmth, for fans of ITV's Emmerdale and readers who love heartwrenching stories set during wartime.World War II wages on. Ration...
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Emmerdale at War
Pamela BellThe perfect Christmas gift full of warmth and nostalgia, for fans of ITV's Emmerdale, and readers who love heartwarming and heartbreaking stories set during World War II.Britain is...
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Spring Comes to Emmerdale
Pamela BellTHE PERFECT GIFT FOR MOTHER'S DAYSpring Comes to Emmerdale is a must for fans of ITV's Emmerdale, and readers who love heartwarming and heartbreaking stories set during wartime, al...