------=_NextPart_000_00E8_01C558D8.B981D100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable "Do you know the method of chiming? Is it automatic only or is there=20 another means of entertaining the citizens of Hull?" I think there were manually operated Ellacombe hammers on the quarter bells= - they came from the back bells at York Minster when the Ellacombe apparat= us there was dismantled. Not sure whether there are manual hammers on the n= ew bells as well. The citizens of Hull will probably be glad of some entertainment. It's poss= ible to obtain a car window sticker which announces 'it's never dull in Hul= l' with a definite irony. I've also seen T-shirts bearing the slogan 'fcuk = in Hull'. Very apt, some might say... David ------=_NextPart_000_00E8_01C558D8.B981D100 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
"Do you know the method of chiming?  Is it automatic only or is t= here=20
another means of entertaining the citizens of Hull?"
 
I think there were manually operated Ellac= ombe=20 hammers on the quarter bells - they came from the back bells at York Minste= r=20 when the Ellacombe apparatus there was dismantled. Not sure whether there a= re=20 manual hammers on the new bells as well.
 
The citizens of Hull will probably be glad= of some=20 entertainment. It's possible to obtain a car window sticker which announces= =20 'it's never dull in Hull' with a definite irony. I've also seen T-shirts be= aring=20 the slogan 'fcuk in Hull'. Very apt, some might say...
 
David
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