Unfortunately, the building is abandoned and there is graffiti all over it. The neighborhood is sketchy. While I was taking photos, a random man advised me not to keep my camera out because someone might snatch it out of my hands. We later saw another tourist couple wandering around the building with disappointed scowls.

Whitechapel Bell Foundry closed its doors in 2017. Its website exhorts readers to join a petition against its conversion into an hotel. But today as part of Open Door weekend it played host to an exhibition by local artists entitled ‘Creativity in Lockdown.’ I couldn’t access tickets from the Open Door App (in fact I struggled to access much information at all from that App) but it didn’t matter because two ladies at the door assured me all I need do is download a track and trace form then proceed around what was essentially a large indoor yard in an anti-clockwise direction. This involved stepping over or around various notices attached to the ground, walking around various mobiles, looking at multiple exhibits on the walls and visiting film shows in two tents. Some of the remnants from the foundry were as photogenic. A female visit it asked to take my photo of myself taking photos of the exhibits.