[Bell Historians] The 26 bells of St Wilfrid's Harrogate

[David Sloman]

The bar headstock on the tenor at Rochford fractured at the centre bolt hole 
and was replaced in 1990!

DS
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Offen" <richard at ...>
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Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Bell Historians] The 26 bells of St Wilfrid's Harrogate


> --- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, "Peter Kirby"
> <peter.c.kirby at b...> wrote:
>> >> David Bryant
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>> [They had stopped doing it generally by this point. They started
> again to
>> some extent in the 70s with very light eights such as Lightcliffe
> and Pately
>> Bridge (bar stocks on all bells at both), but at Harrogate it
> certainly
>> appears to have been done for cheapness.]
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>> I think Lightcliffe were done on the cheap as well!
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>> Peter Kirby
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>> Ringer @ Lightcliffe 1971-present date
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> Weren't most of Taylor's mini-rings in the 50s, 60s and 70s hung on
> bar headstocks? I seem to remember places such as Rochford and
> Saxthorpe being hung so.
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> At Haddiscoe (and possibly others), they even forged wi/steel bar to
> form canon retaining headstocks!
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> The first of the Whitechapel mini-rings, Radlett, also has bar
> headstocks, but then WBF developed their fabricated hollow-section
> steel headstocks, which we see at places such as Seasalter (sorry,
> old habits die hard, I know I'm meant to call it Whitstable these
> days!), Ston Easton, Scofton with Osberton, et al.
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