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1974 |
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The bell was inspected by David Cawley and Alan Berry. They noted that it was equipped with an elm headstock, strap gudgeons, plain bearings, traditional wheel, a stay fitted on the same side as the wheel, no slider or runnerboard and no evidence of there having ever been one. A carthorse rope was fitted to the garter hole in the wheel at 12 o'clock. The fittings were in 'elderly' condition. The bell had 6 canons, retains its cast-in staple, not tuned, never turned, and no cracks were visible. The frame was a low side timber frame with corner posts in a fair condition. The clock chime was not working. Nicholas Davies used to say that Charles Everett, of St Mary's Ashford, used to teach people to handle a bell there. |