[Bell Historians] Re: Thurnham/Kirkham

[Alan Birney]

--- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, Barry Pickup <jbpickup at ...> 
wrote:
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> 
> --- Mike Chester <mike at ...> wrote:
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> > 
> > Kirkham had an unusual rope circle, back 4 ropes in
> > standard 4-bell 
> > positions and the two trebles in the middle of the
> > circle, IIRC.  
> > 
> > 
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> From my (admittedly vague) memory I thought they had a
> spiral circle wuth the tenor in the middle.
> 
> JBP
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> 

     Didn't the Tenor rope fall on the "Chiming machine" side of the 
tower? Definatly two ropes fell in the middle, close to the ladder. 
I recall that I think, the 5th or Tenor was on balls.

        What fun the new generation of ringers are missing out on.

Alan
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