<div dir="auto">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.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 23 Feb 2023, 22:07 oliver Lee via Bell-historians, <<a href="mailto:bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk">bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Many thanks </p>
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