[Bell Historians] Tower collapses

[A Willis]

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From: Mark Humphreys [mailto:mark.humphreys at b...]
Sent: 20 August 2003 09:44
To: bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Bell Historians] Pat Cannon at Poona.


> Which tower was it that collapsed years ago after the ringing had finished
> and the ringers were outside of the tower?


Towers collapsing seem to have been one of the hazards of 17th century
ringing, at least in Wiltshire. Calne collapsed twice (in 1628 and 1639)
and St Edmunds Salisbury in 1653. There seems to have been a lot of tower
re-builds prior to the Civil Wars, but how many had collapsed, and how many
were done out of caution, like Warminster, I don't know.

AW