[Bell Historians] post-war rings

[Richard Offen]

--- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, "Susan & Christopher Dalton" 
<dalton.family at v...> wrote:
> 
> 
> > G & J sometimes installed fabricated steel frames before WWII 
too - I 
> > seem to remember that Carisbrooke, IOW is of this design.
> >
> > R
> >
> After the First World War, when G & J first made low-side frames 
rather than
> invariably installing high-sided 'H' frames copied from Taylors, 
they were
> all made of steel and "queen-posted" - e.g. Purton, Wilts., and 
Corfe Mullen
> Dorset. G & J frames with cast iron sides came a good deal later I 
think.
> 
> C D

Not that much later, as Clapham Park (bells now at Spitalfields, but 
not the frame) was most definitely a cast-iron lowside one - I and 
one or two other Cumberlands lugged all the frame sides into 
Spitalfields Church for storage in 1971, so I can testify that they 
were good, meaty castings!

Richard