I think it is probably worth saying that the group of people who were involved in trying to save the Whitechapel Bell Foundry between 2016 and 2021, including Adam Lowe, who has demonstrated so clearly and brilliantly through Factum Foundation and now the London Bell Foundry that it should be possible to re-establish a working and commercially successful Foundry, have now reconvened. We are constructing a plan to do what should have been done in 2016 ie how to keep it going as a working Foundry. We will need public support and, I hope, this time round will have the support of the relevant public agencies, particularly Historic England and the Department for Levelling Up.

Watch this space.