We want Tower Hamlets Council to make it their policy to Save the Whitechapel Bell Foundry as a working foundry and reject the developers’ rotten proposal to turn it into a boutique hotel.
To this end, we need two thousand people who live, work or study in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets to sign a petition on the council website. This will trigger a debate on the subject at the next full meeting of the council on 18th September, which will give all the elected councillors the chance to express their opinions and vote on making Saving the Whitechapel Bell Foundry official council policy.
Please click on the link below to sign the petition and then circulate this to all your friends, family, workmates and neighbours in the borough over the holiday weekend.
There is no time to waste. The quicker we can get these two thousand names, the stronger the message it sends of the strength of feeling of residents on this matter.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN THE PETITION IF YOU LIVE, WORK OR STUDY IN THE BOROUGH OF TOWER HAMLETS
Photographs taken by David Hoffman at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in July 1973 and published for the first time today © David Hoffman
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