Bellringing at Holy Trinity Hatton

These bells were all cast in 1885 by James Barwell of Birmingham. The tenor weighs 13-2-18 and is in F#.
The amusing rope guide moves vertically as well as horizontally. It is affixed to the ceiling by a post in the middle, and attatched with taut wires to the walls of the tower. The wires are however not taut enough....
http://www.warksbells.co.uk/hatton.htm

This is a piece of ringing on the Warwickshire Open Day, on the 1st of May 2010.

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[belvedere261]

whats the point of this guideframe when it is so close to the ceiling. it might as well be unguided

[irkibby]

@belvedere261 It isn't close to the ceiling at all!

[SrWilson3s]

I hate long rope draughs with dodgy rope guides some places ive run were so long they had 3 or 4. I hate em lol I like short a draugh as possible.

[irkibby]

I learnt to ring on a draught longer than this, so towers like this are no problem.

[simonbellringer]

@belvedere261 Sounds like fun!!! Apparantly the locals always turn up to watch the fun if visiting ringers come!!!

[combineharvestersam]

Lol, the two people at the end having an exciting discussion about handstroke pull!

[simonbellringer]

@SrWilson3s That would be Cricklade!! Rope guides are too high, they are anti clockwise, and have a 665-foot rope draught!! Would like to go back.... in a million years time!!

Crowland in Lincs have a 90-foot draught, didnt ring, but saw the ropes and thought "sh*t!!"At least they have proper guides (4 of them!!) and at a reasonable height!!

[sdgwebb]

@timmeh1507 Only 2 of them have no handstroke.....

[timmeh1507]

@simonbellringer I have rung on these, they are awful to ring. Big wheels and ridiculously long length of rope, they don't have much handstroke at all and are pretty rough all round! Not in any hurry to go back...

[KDowner94]

Good God, I should imagine that the are tricky to handle.

[simonbellringer]

@SrWilson3s Not at Swindon Village, Cheltenham, Glos, you wont.

The low draught is their downfall - the sallies on 2 & 3 in particular get caught sometimes when coming off the wheel, making them easily missable, especially when your not expecting it.

They do sound good though, and they are in a HEXAGONAL TOWER :)

[belvedere261]

@simonbellringer you would not like to ring them the 2 guide frames have holes out of position the holes in the 2nd frame are not in line with the 1st one they are suspended with ropes and sway when you pull the ropes.

[simonbellringer]

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeekk!!!

What are THESE like to ring? They look DODGY!!

Reminds me of some horror stories of Burlington, NJ (22cwt 8.) Now THEY sound interesting!! (If anybody has a video of them, please download it! I'd LOVE to see & hear them!!)