[Bell Historians] Rolling pin sliders

[David Bryant]

> Sliding blocks by Taylors can be found on all six bells at Darrington 1895/6
> and at South Kirkby where the bells are hung in a girder frame with no
> substructure and the sliding blocks are mounted off the floor. The noise
> when they operate is pretty loud in the ringing room.

That's quite late - I thought they'd gone over entirely to Hastings by then. Do you have a more precise date for the work? Do you have more details of the installation, by the way - I only know that they had fishtail clappers :-)

David

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