It was a pleasure to be back in Factum Arte, whose Foundation has put in the bid jointly with the United Kingdom Historic Building Preservation Trust (UKHBPT) to run the Whitechapel Bell Foundry. The place was humming – evidence, if evidence is required, that it is perfectly possible to run an efficient and profitable foundry and art workshop (it happens that two other foundries have also put in bids to run Whitechapel, so the idea that it cannot be retained as a foundry is absurd):-