[Bell Historians] Dowlish Wake Somerset

[Anne Willis]

There are a lot of Taylor (looking) jobs in Somerset on timber headstocks.
Marston Magna and Chilton Trinity to name two. These were probably by Sully
or Doble - so I guess that Dowlish could well have been hung by one of
these. Heathfield are interesting. Bells and clappers by Mears and all other
fittings by Taylors in a locally made frame - all of the same date. 
 
Hmm - thinking about it, that sounds a bit like one of my recent
jobs...........

Matthew



Not a new habit.  Thomas Blackbourn used Taylor bearings when he re-hung the
bells at Holy Trinity, Bradford on Avon, in 1891.

Anne