[Bell Historians] Re: Alnwick town hall clock

Mon Aug 20 10:40:37 BST 2018

Supplied with a clapper as well. There are a couple of secular clock bells in the Liverpool area that have internal clappers and evidence of being manually chimed with a rope at some point. Wavertree Clock Tower and The Cottage Homes Orphanage, Fazakerley, each have this arrangement. Was the Alnwick bell perhaps also used as a market bell? Is that a rope coming down behind it (from a chiming lever) or something to do with the clock?

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    On Monday, 20 August 2018, 09:46:51 GMT+1, 'Peter Rivet' peter at plrivet.plus.com [bellhistorians] <bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com> wrote:  

Without either a precise date for the clock or any visible inscription, there isn’t a lot to go on.  This is frustrating as the mid nineteenth century saw a few bells produced by minor Tyneside foundries like that of Abbot (Gateshead) and Watson (Newcastle), and it would be good to find some more.  But it’s just as likely that they are stock bells from Whitechapel.

Peter Rivet

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Can't find details of the bells, but there is a picture of one of them here, if this helps identify the founder

https://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/the-heritage-blew-me-away-1-8280134

Mike

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Sent: 19 August 2018 17:13
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Subject: [Bell Historians] Re: Alnwick town hall clock 

Unfortunately I think these are different bells to the ones discussed recently - they are the clock in Alnwick Town Hall, as you say, not the peal at St Pauls, which are an octave in Eb, according to Dove. The nominals of the three bells are 2131Hz, 1779.5Hz and 2131Hz, approximately C, A, F#. There is no mention of them in the chimes spreadsheet on the Keltek site, nor do they appear in a quick web search. Does anyone have details?

Regards,

Bill H

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