Our church bells were silenced from ringing the hour many years ago, because the church is more or less next door to the Town Hall which also has a belfry. It wasn't helpful to have two adjacent, non-synchronised clocks, each ringing their own version of the time!Boodi 2 wrote:Thanks Viv, your posts, photos and videos are fantastic and most informative. The two churches in our village have bell towers and the bells ring every hour, before church services and for special occasions/commemorations, but I suspect it is done automatically as I have never heard of anyone going into the tower to actually ring the bells.
The manual pre-service bells are ringing again, though. Usually about 4 of them, so if anyone wants to volunteer ...