[Bell Historians] Grassendale

[D Cawley]

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Thanks for this, can't think why I just don't remember the articlem, which =
I shall at once rectify. Anyway, it explains why JPF refers to everything =
being much the same as in his previous visit, also Dove's accurate weight. =
JPF noted that Nicholl's supplied a new set of ropes in 1921 - "very dirty=
and hardly ever used" ! DC
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From: Chris Pickford=20
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Sent: 29 August 2002 12:08
Subject: Re: [Bell Historians] Grassendale


There was a good account of Grassendale bells by Peter Furniss (who lives=
nearby and maintains occasional contact with the church) in RW 9 Dec.1988 =
p.1157. The bells were retuned by G&J in 1938, but rehung dead - in the old=
fittings - as a chime. 17 peals were rung there between 1909 and 1927.

By the sound of it, the status - chime or "lost ring" - does stretch defi=
nitions a bit

Peter told me - when I was in Liverpool earlier this year - that the chur=
ch had no interest in having the bells restored for ringing.

CP
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Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 11:56 AM
Subject: [Bell Historians] Grassendale


GRASSENDALE (St Mary) Liverpool

This is currently listed as a 'lost' tower, and having read John Fidler=
's inspection notes of 1956, I wonder if it still is, despite Dove saying i=
n 1962 (Foreign Bells), that the bells were "rehung dead about thirty years=
ago". In 1956, JPF said that "The general condition of the bells and frame=
work is the same as when I last visited this place...since my visit an elec=
tric driven chime barrel has been fixed by G&J, the old clappers have been =
replaced by newer ones" and goes on to describe the way the barrel works.

He "last visited" in 1933 when he found the ring of six bells by Hodges=
of Dublin, 1853, tenor 37.5/8" diam with "dirty, clumsy" fittings,"no doub=
t still serviceable if the frame were good". It is not good. Front four a=
bove fifth & tenor, rather a poor design and not in a good state.

This implies that in 1956 they would better have been described as Unri=
ngable., and might still be so described to-day.

Anyone been up to possibly the only surviving Irish ring in the UK outs=
ide Ireland ?

DLC


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