Heywood

[Bill Hibbert]

JBP:

> There does seem to be a bit of a mystery about the
Heywood recasting.

The story as told to me by John Partington, whose father was tower 
captain at the time, is that the tenor of the 1911 (from memory) 
peal cracked in 1921 (again from memory). G&J replaced the whole 
peal free of charge. I can imagine this was kept quiet at the time 
to avoid bad publicity and more free bells. Certainly I remember 
that G&J had a bad reputation in the Manchester area when I was a 
child, whether as a result of Heywood or other problems I don't know.

One of the G&J bells at Banstead also cracked in the middle '20s.

The particular problem (see Elphick's Craft of the Bellfounder for 
another example) seems to have been excessive thinness in the 
shoulder.

Bill H