Comments on: Hope For The Whitechapel Bell Foundry

By: P j

P j — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 09:25:42 +0000

Boutique hotel who started that load of bollocks ,boutique hotel another name for charging more ,pity owners never kepted it or were allowed to sell it , seems ordinary man never gets to have there say . Look at the city all those out of place buildings . I was shocked When I first read the foundry was closing ,why did close ?

By: Chris Kemmann -Lane

Chris Kemmann -Lane — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 11:34:39 +0000

Must must must be saved !!!!

By: Ian Silverton

Ian Silverton — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 18:20:16 +0000

GA, good article about this development, with your good self mention, in the FT weekend ARTS page12 worth a peep, Good luck.

By: Evelyn

Evelyn — Sat, 28 Jul 2018 10:39:48 +0000

I wonder if Raycliff could be ‘persuaded’ to become a ‘patron’ of the site, advertising & tax benefits in return for not making a big profit from selling to the Trust ???

What a shame that Trusts are so much slower to respond than are property developers when heritage sites come up for sale 🙁

By: Geoff Parcell

Geoff Parcell — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 17:16:47 +0000

Who can we write to to add our support to retain the foundry?

Thanks

By: John Walters

John Walters — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 16:52:09 +0000

This would be such a good solution. I had watched – and contributed to the cost of – bells being cast and recast for the parish church of my home town where they are now rung regularly. The loss of the old foundry with its incredibly long history felt terrible. I really hope that the plan succeeds and send my best wishes to those involved.

By: Peter Cobb

Peter Cobb — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 12:35:41 +0000

Why wasn’t the complex made a listed building??

By: Keith Billinghurst

Keith Billinghurst — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 08:48:35 +0000

Dear Sirs,

What an enlightening article to read at the start of a new week. Your work follows in the tradition of Charles Robert Ashbee’s 1894 Survey of the Memorials of Greater London and is to be applauded. Could you promote an on-line petition that interested people (including those not resident in the borough) could sign ahead of the council’s change of use vote (SurveyMonkey for example)? I will be forwarding your email to Len Duvall, member of the London Assembly for Greenwich and Lewisham as well as other bodies in my town of Eltham who I would expect would support your plan.

By: Kate

Kate — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 07:33:26 +0000

It was fantastic that 10,000 people signed the petition to keep the foundry and if those 10,000 people also contacted their local church and joined their local bell ringers, they could help keep this amazing and worthwhile tradition alive.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sun, 24 Jun 2018 23:35:38 +0000

What can be done now to encourage the establishment of the new foundry?

Thanks for keeping us informed, GA.