[Bell Historians] Saltaire

[Mark Humphreys]

And, of course, Port Sunlight was a Congregational Church before being
subsumed into the URC. Eight of M&S's finest 1904 bells ........
Retuned and rehung, incidentally, by G&J in 1951 - one of their later
jobs, I guess.

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Bryant [mailto:djb122 at y...] 
> Sent: 20 January 2003 21:37
> To: bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Bell Historians] Saltaire
> 
> 
> > Once one of only two Congregational Churches with bells 
> hung for full-
> circle ringing, its original bells had become
> > unringable and were removed during the Second World War. Sir Titus 
> > Salt,
> 1803-76, was a textiles industrialist
> > who established a model village for workers at his mill. He lived 
> > himself
> at Lightcliffe, near Halifax, and was responsible for
> > six bells being installed there, these being the only other 
> > Congregational
> example. Sadly, these weresold for scrap in 1938.
> 
> Is this correct Re. Lightcliffe? I was under the impression 
> that 4&5 had been sold for scrap at some point and the others 
> retained as clock bells until comparatively recently.
> 
> David