A gift of a box of bells has resulted in a long awaited find. A bell which is a suitable note to be a treble and make a proper scale of six. Quickly fitted today after acquiring the bell yesterday, the Palace Campanile is now a proper six with all bells in the right scale and correct tone apart. The old treble has now finally taken its true place as the proper second in the ring and the bells sound much better as a result. Many thanks have to go Jim Currin for the bells.

After finishing off the interior lining for the end wall so that it did not need to come off again. The lining needed to go to the roof and access to this area is restricted once the frames are in place. The beams had to be trimmed slightly as a result of the roof work which allowed them to fit perfectly this time. The frames were erected with the back four frame going in first. The bells were put back into the pits and then the second frame was erected. Suddenly the bells were complete again and rang out again. This means that all the major items displaced as a result of the roof work is now back in place and even the lights were reassembled too. Massive clean up too......test ring to be arranged.

Went to help out at Kingsbury church today - they were having a recruitment day. As part of this their training dumb bell was put into action. My two kids had a go it being the smallest first go proper at the grand old age of four. The approx four foot wheel sits in a steel frame with a weight to simulate the bell. The rope is a proper bell rope which comes down the treble rope guide. The comparison to my mini ring was made and considering the size of the simulator I was surprised to find the wheel being that small as it rang like a full sized bell but without the noise!
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Remarkably easy to take each bell out of its pit and lower the assembly to the ground along with the frames and even the beams. So currently back to square one again.

With the insulation and roofing work going on around the bells work has started to remove them. Only a temporary measure but a very necessary one as the mounting beams are being lowered two inches.

Looking at insulating and lining the building around the palace ring. This may mean that the ringing installation may need to be temporarily lowered to the ground whilst the work is carried out.

After a car placement manoeuvre we realised that we had enough ringers to actually give the bells a quick test ring. So the proper five were rung to see how all of them rang together for the very first time. This is less than a month since they were last rung in their old installation so the movement has been quite swift.

Ringers were :- Helen Howell, Quentin Howell, Roger Lewiston, Ian Thompson  

A pleasant day without disturbance meant that more progress was made than expected and the Palace ring is now in its new situation and in working order. The installation went very smoothly and the bells look good. Rather strange to see them so high up compared to the Whitacre Campanile. Test ringing has taken place of the individual bells but no proper test yet. Had to join the acrylic ropes together to make them long enough to suit the new height but all now work reasonably. All the fixtures and fittings were tightened up and checked as assembly took place.

The Whitacre Campanile is no more as it was dismantled this morning and transported in sections to its new home. Time dictated that the parts are now stored on the floor ready for reassembly.