Comments on: The Degradation Of The Whitechapel Bell Foundry https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/02/18/the-degradation-of-the-whitechapel-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 Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:04:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Shari Jobst https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/02/18/the-degradation-of-the-whitechapel-bell-foundry/#comment-1968068 Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:04:54 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=202374#comment-1968068 This is such heartbreaking news. I will cleave to the photos I took when it was a reputable and viable business. I’m just sad.

]]> By: DR CHARLES S.P. JENKINS https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/02/18/the-degradation-of-the-whitechapel-bell-foundry/#comment-1695381 Sun, 23 Feb 2025 13:22:33 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=202374#comment-1695381 It is a national disgrace that the Bell Foundry was allowed to close. Britain is NO longer the Britain we all knew. The East End is not the East End of my childhood. Most who live there now have no feeling for its history. Look at the condition of the monuments in Whitechapel. The last time I was there one monument was being used to secure a cover over a stall!

The idea of turning the building into a hotel was ridiculous. Smarten up people, SAVE WHAT LITTLE IS LEFT OF THE EAST END NOW ……….. NOW!!!!!!!!!!!! The Foundry should be saved and returned to produce bells.

I love the list of the ‘supporters’ – so, nu, where were these saints when the building closed in the first place?

]]> By: Rosa https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/02/18/the-degradation-of-the-whitechapel-bell-foundry/#comment-1695115 Sat, 22 Feb 2025 19:43:15 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=202374#comment-1695115 May there be a big protests

WITH LOUD BELLS.

]]> By: Dorothy Lindsay https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/02/18/the-degradation-of-the-whitechapel-bell-foundry/#comment-1694043 Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:08:08 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=202374#comment-1694043 Just saying…. this man is to blame.

Robert Jenrick, the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, approved a plan to convert the Whitechapel Bell Foundry into a hotel.

Is this how he would continue behave if he ever became Leader of the Conservative Party?
Selling our cultural heritage for what can only be described as a ‘mess of pottage’.

“A mess of pottage” is an idiom that means something is worthless or of little value. It’s often used to describe when someone gives up something valuable for something worthless.

]]> By: Andy https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/02/18/the-degradation-of-the-whitechapel-bell-foundry/#comment-1693803 Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:43:08 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=202374#comment-1693803 Terrible indictment to the Labour Party ?
Is it blue Labour ?

Adele and Bernie your words echo my heart .

Remember a synagogue near Sidney Street library ?

The church bells will peal for the end of an era .
Meanwhile Everton’s new ground has cost 800 million pounds to build and Tower Hamlets has a child poverty rate of nearly 60 per cent .
I am told one of the highest in the country .

We can see the office blocks and money making though without a telescope from Tower Hamlets .

]]> By: Robin https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/02/18/the-degradation-of-the-whitechapel-bell-foundry/#comment-1693744 Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:06:15 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=202374#comment-1693744 This is terrible and so stupid.
What can we do to increase the pressure to get WBF into London Bell Foundry’s capable and loving hands? Is it possible to continue pressuring Tower Hamlets Council to do something? Higher up the food chain?
Many thanks, GA, for keeping this issue alive.

]]> By: Garrick Davis https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/02/18/the-degradation-of-the-whitechapel-bell-foundry/#comment-1693725 Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:19:57 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=202374#comment-1693725 Thank you for your vigilance. Is the local authority who has the formal powers to act to safeguard this world famous site, indifferent, spineless or both? Premises shuttered up for eight years? Total
disgrace. A unique asset and legacy which should be championed by any authority fortunate to have it with their boundaries.

]]> By: Adele https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/02/18/the-degradation-of-the-whitechapel-bell-foundry/#comment-1693688 Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:38:18 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=202374#comment-1693688 To see these pictures is particularly hard for me. I lived close by and chose the Bell Foundry when, as a student at Spital Square, we were required to choose an historic building to write about.
The office gave me plenty of information and from them I learnt of the Liberty Bell being cast there. To see it looking like this is heartbreaking – it’s going the same way as my old school building did – a long gone memory. What happened to the London I knew and loved?

]]> By: Terry Smyth https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/02/18/the-degradation-of-the-whitechapel-bell-foundry/#comment-1693658 Tue, 18 Feb 2025 12:40:45 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=202374#comment-1693658 We went on a booked visit a few years ago … it was one of the most absorbing, fascinating and instructive visits I have made to a site of industrial history. I took many photos as we were taken around. Now, for some reason, they have all disappeared from my computer – no doubt accidentally deleted!

It would be great if this site could devote space to photos of the interior of the Foundry, including the upstairs rooms.

]]> By: Rita S https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/02/18/the-degradation-of-the-whitechapel-bell-foundry/#comment-1693638 Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:02:55 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=202374#comment-1693638 So owners of the building are preventing this old historical relic from moving forward. Why can’t THC or historical societies apply pressure to the owners to arrive at some mutual agreement to allow this Bell Foundry to work/thrive again. What about our over flowing lottery funds surely they could assist with this process.

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