[Bell Historians] Taylors and timber headstocks

George Dawson George at d...
Tue Jan 25 17:15:20 GMT 2005


> >The first specific reference to cast iron headstocks for ringing bells
was
> >on 1st March 1893, these being the three headstocks for Egmanton in Notts
> >(Wake up George!).


Some of us are amused by the groping forward towards knowledge!
Egmanton being the first is well recorded in 'Dawsons Dossiers', and yes,
the frame is a lowsided wooen one.

GAD





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