As a way of recording and recollecting what has been lost, I am re-posting the blog I wrote on 25 February 2017, the first and only time I ever saw the inside of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry when it was still in operation. It was an extraordinary survival, still preserving what were essentially late medieval systems of production.
I don’t know anywhere which was equivalently powerful or demonstrated so clearly such traditional systems of hand-made production.
https://charlessaumarezsmith.com/2017/02/25/whitechapel-bell-foundry-6/
| Charles | Saumarez | Smith | 
Charles, this is desperately sad. These ‘Conservatives’ have no regard for the value of cultural institutions or this country’s heritage. You have helped fight a brilliant campaign with merit and right on your side. Any chance of judicially reviewing Jenrick?
Francis
Sent from my iPad
Francis FitzGibbon QC
Barrister
[https://i.imgur.com/OdLW2FZ.png] London
1 Gray’s Inn Square
London WC1R 5AA
T 020 7413 0353
DX 148 Chancery Lane
23es.com Manchester
Waterhouse, 2nd Floor, 41 Spring Gardens Manchester M2 2BG
T 0161 870 9969
DX 303434
Regulated by the Bar Standards Board [https://www.legal500.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2020/09/uk_leading_silk_2021.jpg] [https://i.imgur.com/kh6UYXI.jpg] [https://www.legal500.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2020/09/uk-leading-set-2021.jpg] [https://i.imgur.com/NpKRow4.jpg]
Confidentiality and Privacy Notice
I don’t think so. Not my area of expertise, but it feels definitive. Charles