I certainly rang at St. John's in 1983 but seem to recall that there was no clapper in one of the bells at the time. Bryan McCahey<br><br><div id="ymail_android_signature"><a id="ymail_android_signature_link" href="https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature">Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android</a></div> <br> <blockquote style="margin: 0 0 20px 0;"> <div style="font-family:Roboto, sans-serif; color:#6D00F6;"> <div>On Thu, 11 Aug 2022 at 13:41, oliver Lee</div><div><oliverbellringer@outlook.com> wrote:</div> </div> <div style="padding: 10px 0 0 20px; margin: 10px 0 0 0; border-left: 1px solid #6D00F6;"> <div id="yiv2239898419">
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<p class="yiv2239898419MsoNormal">I was wondering if anyone might be able to tell me exactly why these bells are unringable?, judging by my own research there was almost certainly a local band here in the 1930s but It would appear that the decline began to set in around
the 1970s or 80s. I have also heard a story of a clapper falling out during ringing was this why they where condemned or was it mainly due to tower defects.
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<p class="yiv2239898419MsoNormal">Many thanks </p>
<p class="yiv2239898419MsoNormal">Oliver lee </p>
<p class="yiv2239898419MsoNormal">p.s when where sacred heart last rung? They where almost certainly ringable in 1988! (per doves)</p>
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