I started the day being interviewed by Anna O’Neil on Radio London about the sad plight of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry: still apparently on the open market, but not available to the London Bell Foundry who are probably the only people with the skills, experience and capability to take it on and make a success of it. So, the situation is a total impasse, neither Tower Hamlets, nor Historic England apparently willing or able to take action against the developer who bought it with the intention of turning it into a boutique hotel. I just hope that someone listening to the programme might help break the impasse.

This is what it looked like in the early morning sunshine:-