[Bell Historians] Steel Bells

[Mike Chester]

--- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, DJ Bryant <djb122 at y...> wrote:
> I believe the front four at Willington have recently been 
overhauled by
> David Town of Northallerton. I believe he intends to rehang the 
tenor
> (currently hung dead) for ringing. Don't know how far he's got with
> this. Last year a quarter was rung there - minimus with the tenor 
chimed
> behing using its Ellacombe hammer. I haven't rung there, but Graham
> Blackburn reckons they're awful!
> 
> David

This is correct. There has not been an incumbent, (I cannot remember 
if there is an interregnum or he had been on extended study leave), 
and this has delayed the faculty application to have the tenor 
rehung. I don't remember them as being that horrible, though looking 
at my diary I noted them as being, "crap"! I have my own "code" 
which means that I put in a slightly better comment than I mean, just 
in case a local sees me writing up my grabs! They must be bad then!

Mike