Comments on: Grayson Perry’s End Of Covid Bell

By: Heather Fenton

Heather Fenton — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 11:00:45 +0000

What a brilliant idea! If the bell does go to various hospitals, please don’t forget us here in Wales! Alternatively perhaps it could go to one or more of our six cathedrals…?!
Heather, (From the cathedral City of St Asaph!)

By: christopher nevile

christopher nevile — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 19:57:06 +0000

I wonder if there is anyone who owns a property very near the site of the old Bell foundry who could be prevailed upon to take, hang and strike a replica of Grayson’s Bell. Very Regularly. ?
As a Hotelier I know that being woken at 6.30 by the tolling of bells does not lead to very positive reviews from hotel guests.
Serve the beggars right it would.!

By: John Burt

John Burt — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 06:02:38 +0000

News of the closure of Whitechapel came as I was in the middle of project-managing the restoration (supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund) of the tiny, 12th-century Myndtown Church in the Shropshire Hills. As part of the project, I undertook some research into the two small bells hanging in the bellcote and was amazed to discover that one of them is probably the third oldest of the 65,000 bells in the national bells register. It was eventually dated as being “no later than 1150” by three experts.
Now that there is new hope for saving the Whitechapel foundry (and not by the ridiculous notion of a bloody “boutique hotel”, I am wondering how Grayson Perry’s newest national bell and the one at Myndtown might join forces in support of the cause.

By: Su C.

Su C. — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 04:59:21 +0000

I love this moveable reminder of all we’ve been through in the last 2.5 years. This bell is lovely. It reminds me of the facades on the great cathedrals around the world, adorned with the lovely grotesques and emblems of the time. I would by a small-scale cast bell of this, if one were made available.

And I will continue to send positive thoughts and hopes for a renewed bell foundry.

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 13:21:52 +0000

Grayson Perry’s magnificent bell makes even more evident the tragedy of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry. A tragedy that could so easily have been avoided if only public officials had actually done their job of listening to their constituencies. Instead, they listened to corporate money. None of them should ever be allowed to forget their dereliction of duty.

By: Nita Heaton-Harris

Nita Heaton-Harris — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 09:35:10 +0000

What wonderful by a wonderful artist also the place it will be hung

By: Marcia Howard

Marcia Howard — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 07:26:01 +0000

What a fitting and moving tribute. Well done Grayson Perry.

By: Jan Perry

Jan Perry — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 06:19:48 +0000

marvelous

By: keithb

keithb — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 06:16:04 +0000

The physics behind bells is surprisingly complex. I’m wondering if the various pieces modelling the graves in the graveyard attached to the main form of the bell modulate the tones at all – perhaps the high frequency harmonics. Mr Perry does pick enduring themes for his art – the idea of bells marking stages of life is genius. Some oncology wards have a bell that patients are encouraged to ring when they complete a course of treatment.

Strange is it not how developers are always in a tremendous hurry? Impatient with any form of reflective planning process that actually engages the people who will have to live with the development they forge ahead and demand realism. Then the site is left for years… in fact *decades* for some sites in Birmingham. Best of luck to the old Foundary.