After nearly four years of fighting to save the Whitechapel Bell Foundry from its ignominious fate of being turned into a boutique hotel, I have been sent a memento of my very first visit on 25th. February 2017, organised by Sue Stamp of the Friends of the RA, who took a photograph of me taking photographs of the foundry. I was blown away by the working interiors and have always suspected that possibly the Commissioners of Historic England have never visited, which has made them so oblivious and disregarding of its significance:-
| Charles | Saumarez | Smith | 
That is a smashing photo
i, too, think that this is a magnificent photograph with wonderful shelves of “things”….
perhaps to be titled “taking the last photo” , but we hope not….
Let’s hope not ! Charles