[Bell Historians] Hatfield Yorkshire

[Roderic Bickerton]

See Ted's excellent reply. I went over the tower  very carefully about 10
years ago. Apart from some hacking including the complete removal of some
pulleys and their supporting would work, there is little to do to get the
bells going and they're generally in very good order. You can see intense
pictures the green paint around the ringing room if he's gloss paint and I
went right round and I couldn't find so much as a hair crack in it
anywhere. How many showers can you save out of? When I spoke to the church
authorities I was told that the heating system is coming to the end of its
life and was likely to be replaced in the not too distant future, with the
system working at ground level, as the current heating system was
unbelievably expensive to run and wasted much of the heat as heat rises and
having a system attempted to defy that and blow down was very inefficient.
>From test reply I would guess st pat's that situation has somewhat
reversed. Just tapping the bowls revealed that they would be a truly
excellent ring. The frame layout is very careful they all swing the same
way in the strongest direction of the tower. It is a massively constructed
timber frame, and looks a superb piece of work.

On Thu, 23 Feb 2023, 22:07 oliver Lee via Bell-historians, <
bell-historians at lists.ringingworld.co.uk> wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone might be able to shed some light on when the
> bells here where last rung and exactly why they are unringable?, the last
> peal was rung in 1950 and my 1976 copy of dove’s lists them as being
> unringable due to “  mining subsidence” but there are listed as ringable in
> the 1956 one so they must’ve been condemned in the 1960s or early 1970s.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Oliver lee
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