Comments on: A Petition To Save The Bell Foundry https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/18/a-petition-to-save-the-bell-foundry/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sun, 01 Sep 2019 08:45:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Gill Hewitt https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/18/a-petition-to-save-the-bell-foundry/#comment-1309214 Sun, 01 Sep 2019 08:45:09 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=155223#comment-1309214 The Bell Foundry has to be saved. It’s a unique part of
our London heritage

]]> By: Peter Metaxas https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/18/a-petition-to-save-the-bell-foundry/#comment-1262281 Sun, 17 Feb 2019 19:45:06 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=155223#comment-1262281 I support this petition wholeheartedly. I have emailed the planning committee stating my objection[s] to the the application by Raycliff Capital.
This would be such a loss, the art of bell making must be preserved.

Respectfully
Peter J. Metaxas
Station Building
2546 Iona Road, Belfast P.E.I.
Canada C0A 1A0

]]> By: Paul https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/18/a-petition-to-save-the-bell-foundry/#comment-1256397 Sun, 03 Feb 2019 08:51:58 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=155223#comment-1256397 Worlds gone bonkers ,who wants a poncy boutique hotel ,boutique ! Who started that one some right pillock , to many old buildings destroyed in london by greedy developers and in there own world fartichtects sorry i meant architects. Argh ! Extremely annoyed ordinarily person.

]]> By: Rosie carpenter https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/18/a-petition-to-save-the-bell-foundry/#comment-1143719 Wed, 29 Mar 2017 21:37:32 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=155223#comment-1143719 This is a living, breathing, working entity that holds stories from the past and makes stories for the future
They are it’s stories
Which must be protected
We have to respect our past.
Places like this are what make London great
You take them away and it’s less great
Until it’s insignificant

]]> By: Brian Edwards https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/18/a-petition-to-save-the-bell-foundry/#comment-1142441 Mon, 20 Mar 2017 07:46:50 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=155223#comment-1142441 After the Great Fire of London in 1666 the Whitechapel Bell Foundry founded a number of the bells that contributed to the sound of ‘Oranges and Lemons’. In 1719 Richard Phelps (c,1670-1738), born and bred in Avebury, Wiltshire, founded a bell for the parish church which has been heard by the antiquaries researching the site since the investigations of William Stukeley at that time and is now one of the sounds of a UNESCO World Heritage site. The historic presence and traditions in skills these extraordinary episodes in history represents, highlights these and other entirely unique contributions to the nation’s heritage will never be extended into the future should the foundry close and contents sold. Please sign and lets us try and save the foundry for future generations.

]]> By: Michael J. Masley https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/18/a-petition-to-save-the-bell-foundry/#comment-1142421 Sun, 19 Mar 2017 23:20:07 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=155223#comment-1142421 Signed.

]]> By: Douglas Milsom https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/18/a-petition-to-save-the-bell-foundry/#comment-1142394 Sun, 19 Mar 2017 15:51:59 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=155223#comment-1142394 I support this petition. The fine peal of 10 bells at St. Mary’s Church, Harrow-on-the-Hill were cast and re-cast there.

]]> By: John snooks https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/18/a-petition-to-save-the-bell-foundry/#comment-1142366 Sun, 19 Mar 2017 08:38:59 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=155223#comment-1142366 I’m from Whitechapel.And like me and thousands of others who have now gone.This will be yet another collapse of East end life disappearing.Very sad.

]]> By: Ben Inman https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/18/a-petition-to-save-the-bell-foundry/#comment-1142337 Sun, 19 Mar 2017 01:39:09 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=155223#comment-1142337 signed

]]> By: Vicky https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/18/a-petition-to-save-the-bell-foundry/#comment-1142322 Sat, 18 Mar 2017 21:39:43 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=155223#comment-1142322 What a beautiful letter of support from Signor Marinelli. I hope it can accompany the Petition to Karen Bradley.

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