[Bell Historians] fundenhall and winterton

[Jonathan Dickenson]

Weybread, not Mendham

On Tue, 11 Feb 2025, 22:17 Jonathan Dickenson, <
northernbranch at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Aren't they a Moore, Holmes & Mackenzie setup?  The central round stay is
> a feature of them.
>
> Surlingham I recall is similar (unringable).  They also have glass bottles
> on the bearing houses for the oil!
>
> Thorpe St. Andrew and Mendham are in the back of my mind by them, too
> (without looking at Dove)
>
> Jonathan
>
> On Tue, 11 Feb 2025, 22:10 Carl S Zimmerman, <csz_stl at swbell.net> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for posting these photos!  This is the first change ringing installation
>> that I have seen using a frame style that is almost universal for American
>> church bells of the 19th & early 20th c. -- an independent metal A-frame
>> for each bell.  From what I can find in Dove (under Frames), they are
>> fairly rare elsewhere.
>>
>> Carl Scott Zimmerman, Campanologist
>> Saint Louis, Missouri, USA -
>>  - 19th c. home of at least 37 bell founders or resellers
>> Tel. +1-314-821-8437
>> Webmaster for www.TowerBells.org
>>  * Avocation: tower bells
>>  * Recreation: handbells
>>  * Mission: church bells
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>> Treasurer, World Carillon Federation
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, February 11, 2025 at 05:03:07 AM CST, Neal Dodge via
>> Bell-historians <bell-historians at lists.ringingworld.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Attached are some pictures of Winterton (Norf) from 2018, it's likely the
>> installation has deteriorated further since then.
>> They were rung in 2012 for a QP for the Diamond jubilee
>> https://bb.ringingworld.co.uk/view.php?id=1120683
>> I think they were only chimed in 2018 for the Armistice centenary.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Many thanks
>> Neal Dodge
>>
>>
>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: oliver Lee via Bell-historians <
>> bell-historians at lists.ringingworld.co.uk>
>> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025, 23:34
>> To: bell-historians at lists.ringingworld.co.uk
>> Cc: oliver Lee <oliverbellringer at outlook.com>
>> Subject: [Bell Historians] fundenhall and winterton
>>
>> I'd be very interested to hear from anyone who has rung on the unringable
>> six at winterton or the five at fundenhall (which where rung from the
>> crossing), my dove's from 1976 has the latter as being ringable but by the
>> time that the sixth edition was published in 1982 they are listed simply as
>> a swing chime (although they don't appear as unringable until the 1988
>> edition). Winterton however is something of an enigma according to many
>> sources the bells where condemned because of frame defects but there is no
>> mention of when this was or when indeed they where last rung!, the NDACR
>> report lists them as being ringable in 1996 so I'm guessing this was in the
>> late 1990s?
>>
>> Many thanks
>> Oliver lee
>>
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