[Bell Historians] Points of view/Great Malvern

[Arcubus]

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This is a long and sorry affair. The DAC, as far as I know, didn't
object to the new frame or actively support the parish either. EH think
that the frame can be strengthened and so the DAC didn't oppose or
challenge. The parish, I think, don't want or can't afford, a consistory
court. There's inevitably a degree of politics too. 

I may be wrong on some of this. Perhaps David Beacham or the Malvern
ringers can enlighten us? The band will disintegrate soon which is great
pity. The customer i.e. the ringers - when they said what they want -
haven't been taken seriously or listened to. The case for a new frame
was professionally compiled and presented.

Mark

Mark Regan
Arcubus
64 London Road
Worcester
WR5 2DY
0797 1573688 
www.arcubus.com


-----Original Message-----
From: David Bryant [mailto:david at b...] 
Sent: 28 May 2004 13:26
To: bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: RE: [Bell Historians] Points of view/Great Malvern


> Surely there isn't someone objecting to the replacement of an 1887 
> Taylor high-sided composite A-frame?

Oh yes, and the someone is, unsurprisingly, EH. As I understand it, the
local ringers, quite reasonably, want to install a new frame and augment
their bells to ten. EH, for reasons not entirely clear, have been trying
to insist on retaining the frame (even though it isn't a very good
example of that type of frame). They want the locals to agree to have
the frame modified for ten bells, which the ringers have quite
reasonably been fighting as the bells are unlikely to go very well in
the present frame.

These frames are not particularly rare, and in fact EH have one of their
very own at the Temple Church in Bristol. Quite why they are making such
a fuss seems a mystery to me - does anyone know what their grounds for
opposing its replacement are?

David

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