On This Day 27th January 1922 an article appeared by Mr. Baldwin in the Streatham News
The Bell was discovered when Hill House was demolished in 1922. It weighs nearly half a hundredweight, and was secreted under a wooden staircase on an outside wall near the Dutch garden of the house. Mr. Baldwin stated the "The bell probably came from the Old Well House when the water dried up , and was preserved as a relic"
(Lambeth Archives)