Barnoldswick- Belfry of St Mary le Ghyll Church

Barnoldswick is a small town situated close to the Lancashire/West Yorkshire border, in the Penines. It is where Silentnight beds are made and is one of the longest place names in the UK which does not have a repeated letter.

All of this is completely irrelevant to the video, however.

The church of St Mary-le-Ghyll stands away from the town in a picturesque spot. It's tower contains a ring of six bells -

1 1870 John Taylor & Co
2 1723 Abraham II Rudhall
3 1723 Abraham II Rudhall
4 1723 Abraham II Rudhall
5 2007 Taylors, Eayre & Smith Ltd
6 2009 Taylors, Eayre & Smith Ltd
The tenor weighs 12-1-17 (630kg) and is in Ab

The Rudhall 2,3 and 4 were the only bells in the tower until they were reinstalled along with three Taylor companions in a newly assembled frame containing second hand Gillett and Johnston frame sides in 2009.

5 and 6 were cast for Barnoldswick, and the treble is secondhand. It used to hang in a church in Kendal and was sourced by a local ringer (fartwell2000) to use in the augmentation here.

A driving force behind the augmentation and changeringing band here has been YouTube channelholder "fartwell2000" whose enthusiasm and thoroughness has resulted in a bloody good job... although he isn't finished yet, because there are two empty pits in the tower waiting to be filled (the wheels and other fittings for these future bells are in the middle chamber!)... there is also room in the frame for 2 more after that. I am actually stood in the space where these trebles would be in order to make the video!

This is some ringing on the Lancashire Open Day, which was organised to raise funds for the hanging of St Judes Blackburn for full circle ringing, and for money towards two trebles here at Barnoldswick.

Also available on the day was the miniring of six bells which hang 100 yards from the church in an old stable which functions as a church room. Unfortunately, interference from these tower bells made ringing the miniring rather difficult. Mr 8spacled has a video of the miniring.

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[irkibby]

Apologies, of course, it wasn't TESCO... twas E+S doing the galvanizing.

[timmeh1507]

I like these! You've had me checking over Barnoldswick to see if any letter is repeated - how did you verify this??

[irkibby]

@timmeh1507 I am an extremely knowledgeable person .

(Ok, I looked up Barlick on Wikipedia)

[fartwell2000]

The frame is ex-Bridgerule, they chucked it out to install a fabricated steel one, as the steelwork holding the G&J frame castings had corroded and buckled.....So I picked the castings up for pocket money prices. False economy at Bridgerule, I saw a farmer's gate that was only a few years old-on one side, the galvanising had come off, and there was no metal, it had rotted away. Lets see how long their steel frame and steel stocks last....

[irkibby]

@fartwell2000 I thought I had seen G +J on a frame side! Thanks for the extra info. TESCO used to galvanise everything apart from the bells.

[fartwell2000]

@simonbellringer There was always a spark of interest within the Parish when the three were unringable, and several ringing persons poo-pood making them ringable, till I got involved and sorted them, then the group took off and backed my proposals,. We have an excellent bunch of people, all keen and willing to get the job done. The bells will make a fantastic 8/10

[simonbellringer]

These are nice, looking forward for the augmentation, these, I bet, are going to be a very good 8 indeed :)

Well done fartwell!!

[8spliced]

@fartwell2000 Yes, I did. But it also has the tower bells over it so you can't really hear the mini ring unfortunately, and I was pushed for time so couldn't do it twice :-(

[fartwell2000]

@8spliced Did you get a video of our mini ring?

[fartwell2000]

@fartwell2000 I should have said "it was good to have LACR towers available to us..."

[fartwell2000]

@irkibby Yes, E&S did have some good points, but I am not quite sure what was going on, some of the time.

[fartwell2000]

@1BODGER95 More to the point. why didn't we see more people from your Branch on the Barnoldswick and St Jude's, Blackburn, fundraising weekend? If you'd come, you could have rung here and on our mini ring... Having said that, it was good to have LACR towers abilable for us and to have a select few, generously give their time to fly around stewarding at towers. You should have come Bodger, you would have had a good time.

[1BODGER95]

Gorgeous bells!! :] what brought you up here kib?? x

[8spliced]

8spalced? 8SPALCED?!?!?!?!