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2 unusual facts about Thomas Mears


St. Peter and St. Paul, Dagenham

A peal of six bells was cast for the newly constructed tower in 1804 by Thomas Mears of Whitechapel.

Thomas Mears

In 1819, Mears took over the operation of a sawmill originally built by Joseph Papineau on the Petite-Nation River near Plaisance in Lower Canada.



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Armenian Church, Chennai

The remaining two bells date to 1837 and were cast by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, then known as Mears & Stainbank, with inscriptions reading "Thomas Mears, Founder, London".