[Bell Historians] Charlton Adam

[Alan Birney]

--- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, "David Bryant" 
<davidbryant at ...> wrote:
>
> 
> 
> I can think of a three in North Yorkshire where the situation is 
similar.
> They were 'restored' for swing chiming (without a faculty) within 
the last
> decade or so, but the frame foundation beams are so rotten that in 
places
> they are largely non-existent and this has not been addressed. The
> churchwarden who let us in to have a look was obviously proud of 
the fact
> that they'd had work done on their bells and we didn't really feel 
we could
> say anything - how do you tactfully tell a church that they've 
wasted the
> money? I did tell the diocesan bells adviser, who said that unless 
he
> received a complaint from the parish there was nothing he could 
do, despite
> the lack of a faculty. I left it at that - not much else I could 
do.
> 
> David
>


           And I can think of several cases in addition to the one 
you've mentioned we have been to where "The Son of a Preacher man" 
is proud of the (bad) work and had even mentioned 
these "restorations" (and I use the word loosly) in the Comic!

Alan