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| Ferryhill
Parish Church The Church Bell |
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The clock and bell were installed in 1875 by a Birmingham firm.
For many years a man was employed to keep the grounds of the church tidy and ring the bell before Sunday services. In the early 1960s it was noticed that the ringing of the bell was causing structural damage to the tower. That ended bell ringing by the traditional method.
However, in 1999 Ferryhill Community Council resolved to make the bell the subject of its Millennium Project. The Council raised funds for the purchase of a new mechanism, controlled electronically, to strike the bell (as opposed to the old method of pulling a rope that caused the bell to swing). This method involves no stress to the fabric of the tower. Thus in the year 2000 the Ferryhill Church bell rang out after nearly 40 years of silence. This information is taken from the book: |
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