<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Pierhead, Liverpool, has heavy iron rings attached to staples in the wall at floor level in all four corners of the ringing chamber. For want of a better explanation, I have often wondered if they were used to lash the ropes to when the former Ellacombe chiming apparatus was used. The bells weren't rung full-circle for many years until they were restored by Warners in 1911.<br><br>Bryan McCahey<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin: 5px 0px 5px 5px; padding-left: 5px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Andrew Aspland
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</p><div><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><span class="964251617-29012010">At
Ripon Cathedral there is a modern bell on the central tower. It replaces
an earlier bell and at the base of the pillar there is an iron ring which was
associated with the rope for the former bell - infact there is also evidence of
a previous iron ring. There is a similar ring at the base of the
south-west tower where there have been bells for several centuries. Also
in the present ringing chamber floor there are a number of wooden "patches" and
in an old photograph reveals they were the sites of yet more iron
rings. </span></font></div>
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<div><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><span class="964251617-29012010">These
are clearly to do with bells and the ringing of bells. Has anybody any
clue as to their manner of use?</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><span class="964251617-29012010">Yours</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"><span class="964251617-29012010">Andrew</span></font></div>
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