Gallery and Sounds

Sounds:

rounds.wav   Rounds on the back six. 129 K.

super.wav   Clive Holloway's opinion of the new installation. 17 K.

len.wav   Len Porter trying to organise ringing on the night of the opening of the six. 143 K.

gsire.wav   Len Porter calls some Grandsire Doubles - 4th May 2000. 39 K.

garth.wav   Garth Porter gives his opinion during the opening ringing - 4th May 2000. 105 K.

 

Gallery:

   The newly-built frame in the garage. This is now the ringing room.

 

  The old tenor in the third pit when the frame was in its original location of the main loft space.

 

  The  sub-frame after construction, before the integrated ceiling was put in place.  This is the ringing room.

 

  This shows the different parts of the support for the bellframe before the integrated ceiling was built. One of the four vertical girders supports a corner of the reinforced steel ring which in turn supports timber beams via steel feet. The frame is then bolted to the timber beams. A floor joist and roof-tie pass through the middle.

 

  The base of the bellframe showing the timber beams it is bolted to and the steel feet which support the beams.

 

  The frame in the new belfry before being painted. The treble pit contains the old tenor, shortly before it was returned to the foundry.

 

  This shows part of the sub-structure after the integrated ceiling was installed and the ringing room decorated. Rope holes have not yet been drilled.

 

  The new ring of six bells in the ringing room awaiting hanging.

 

  Tuning marks on the insides of the bells. Plus bear.

 

  The treble and second of the six after painting of the frame. Note the enormous stays!

 

  Leigh End treble (of the original six) in a spare pit of the Balscote Ring, Whites of Appleton, Appleton, Oxon.

 

  The completed ring of six (front four in a row with the two tenors swinging mouth to mouth behind).

 

  Another view of the six bells.

 

  The third and second of the six seen from the access ladder.

 

  Ringing on the original six.

 

  Ringing on the original six (old ropes).

 

  Izzy and Ruby practice their chiming skills!

 

  The ringing room, showing all eight ropes on the spider.

 

  The trebles of the augmented eight set "up" ready for ringing.