<div style="color:black;font: 10pt Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I remember the late Peter Hardwick (Latterly from Frome and Mells) describing them as awkward. I think Peter learned to ring there... He arranged a peal on them (Possibly the last one, i'm not sure). I have a feeling he thought the issues were more political than structural.
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<div class="yiv7909441802MsoNormal">A couple of months ago I was looking through some old annual reports for the hertford county association and I noticed that oxhey where first condemned in 1989 due to worn out fittings before being declared totally unringable in 1990 due
to severe structural problems, whilst I can probably understand the reasoning for this I am curious to know weather this was a long term problem or one that had only appeared in the years prior to their condemnation. I would also be interested to know if anyone
has any memories of ringing on them as I understand that most of the ropes dropped rather close the wall and the bells themselves where apparently anything but tuneful.
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