Comments on: Delivering The Bell Foundry Petition https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/04/20/delivering-the-bell-foundry-petition/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:47:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Denise https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/04/20/delivering-the-bell-foundry-petition/#comment-1146517 Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:47:20 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=156602#comment-1146517 Gentle Author-
Thanks for the hours of good reading during a long, rainy Oregon winter. So many parallels to what is going on in Spitalfields with what is going on in my historic neighborhood in Portland. Thanks for giving the “preservationists” among us a model for using our voices for local color and character. Thanks for honoring the beauty of “everyday” in time and locality. To the Bell folks, rooting for the success of your petition way across the world and hoping Gardner’s store stays open, too!

]]> By: Wayne Blanchrd https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/04/20/delivering-the-bell-foundry-petition/#comment-1146513 Thu, 20 Apr 2017 13:39:01 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=156602#comment-1146513 When I visit London it is because of places like the Whitechapel Bell Foundry…those bits of London that are the real London. With such history (and being such a wonderfully historic building) the Bell Foundry (and other bits of vintage London) must be preserved, curated and nurtured. Sadly, we are seeing the demise of the London so many of us love, as more and more of it succumbs to the increasing rise of culture-killing commercialism. Whitechapel is an example of contrasts that reveal how much more desirable the ‘human scale’ element of the city is compared to the high-rise office blocks and impersonal glass-and-steel shop fronts that are making London look and feel like some anonymous place in America.

]]> By: Coralie Mattys https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/04/20/delivering-the-bell-foundry-petition/#comment-1146510 Thu, 20 Apr 2017 13:03:27 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=156602#comment-1146510 I so agree with everything you’ve said here and hope that there is sufficient sense and sensibility to bring success to your campaign. If you need any more signatories to anything, please let me know. Thanks

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/04/20/delivering-the-bell-foundry-petition/#comment-1146504 Thu, 20 Apr 2017 11:40:01 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=156602#comment-1146504 Greetings from Boston,

GA, thank you for continuing your good work of historical preservation for the Whitechapel Bell Foundry. Certainly the name of Dan CRUIKSHANK should carry some cultural heft if he is a descendant of George Cruikshank (1792-1878), the British caricaturist and friend of Dickens.

Good luck to all …

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/04/20/delivering-the-bell-foundry-petition/#comment-1146501 Thu, 20 Apr 2017 10:43:10 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=156602#comment-1146501 “…….it is the sound of Freedom.”
Fingers crossed for a great outcome.
Thanks for the awareness, and the opportunity to be part of this worthy intervention.

]]> By: Gary Arber https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/04/20/delivering-the-bell-foundry-petition/#comment-1146500 Thu, 20 Apr 2017 10:36:26 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=156602#comment-1146500 An ideal solution would be for the site to be developed with a resident curator, in the way that Dennis Severs house is now being run.
Gary

]]> By: Bailey Jones https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/04/20/delivering-the-bell-foundry-petition/#comment-1146499 Thu, 20 Apr 2017 10:21:58 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=156602#comment-1146499 I wish you every success.

]]> By: ANGELA ALMOND https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/04/20/delivering-the-bell-foundry-petition/#comment-1146497 Thu, 20 Apr 2017 09:52:26 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=156602#comment-1146497 Thank you for all your efforts. Praying that we soon hear bells pealing to celebrate success with this petition

]]> By: Pennie Limming https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/04/20/delivering-the-bell-foundry-petition/#comment-1146493 Thu, 20 Apr 2017 09:20:38 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=156602#comment-1146493 I wish the petition every success – it certainly deserves it. However, I fear there will be too much “other business” on every politician’s mind at the moment.

]]> By: JenniB https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/04/20/delivering-the-bell-foundry-petition/#comment-1146492 Thu, 20 Apr 2017 09:17:47 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=156602#comment-1146492 Well done, good luck – let us hope someone has even a modicum of sense..

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