[Bell Historians] Brampton, Chesterfield

[David Cawley]

Nice to see the "top copies" with the attractive 1930s style Loughborough heading. The original file at Loughborough is considerably fatter, but it turned out that the Bramptonians were well pleased with their chime. 
We had a similar case in Kent a few years ago, at the little village church of Luddesdowne, near Rochester. I was asked to inspect and found three bells hung for ringing in a little Victorian tower, the bell chamber stage of which connsisted of the original west wall on the church plus three walls of 1866 butting up against it. I did suggest scrapping the tenor (1866) and casting four trebles to go with the other two, which would have given a 4 1/2-cwt ring of six, the frame to be set on a concrete ring beam foundation, but Whitechapel were sceptical about it, and they ended up adding three trebles and rehanging the old bells dead to make a chime of six.  
Returning to Derbyshire, another Loughborough "fat file" of about the same date concerns that very heavy 2-ton clavier chime of 8 at Bradwell. The project started life as a proposal for a carillon of 48 bells, which was gradually whittled down in number and size over the years until the present eight were finally hit upon, and what fine bells they are.

DLC     
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mike Chester 
  To: bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 11:18 PM
  Subject: [Bell Historians] Brampton, Chesterfield


    
  I came across this while idly "Googling"

  http://www.st-thomas-brampton.org/Church%20Bells/bells%20letters.pdf

  Some interesting correspondence. I wonder if today they would have installed a lightish ring instead?

  Nike



             
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