Coventry Diocesan Guild of Church Bellringers
Belfry Maintenance Committee

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Belfry Maintenance Committee Report 2008

The biggest project this year was the augmentation to 8 bells and installation of sound control at Kineton. By all accounts this has been a great success.

As a fund raising exercise people at Kineton had arranged a tower open day which included towers in the Guild which are not rung very often. Committee members were involved in inspecting and conducting some light maintenance on a selection of bells in south Warwickshire including; Whatcote where a wooden stop for the treble slider was fitted, Tidmington, Newbold Pacey and Honington where spare ropes were fitted.

Ufton was also subject to a formal inspection by the committee. It was thought that the bells were unsafe to be rung full circle until a more thorough investigation into movement between the headstocks and gudgeons could be carried out and other maintenance work completed.

Bell ropes remain a problem. There is well over a 6 month waiting list for new ones. A plea has been put out for anyone who has any old bell ropes in whatever condition to contact a committee member so that they may be directed to a tower where they are needed.

William Jones

Members of the Committee	Telephone No
William Jones, (Chairman) Edgeways, 6 Vicarage Lane, Harbury, Leamington Spa, CV33 9HA	01926 611914
Keith Chambers, 38 School Street, Wolston, Coventry CV8 3HF	024 7654 4573
Peter Sheen, 19 Home Close, Bubbenhall, Coventry CV8 3JD	024 7630 6339
John Slack, 74 Chapel Street, Long Lawford, Rugby CV23 9BE	01788 570899
Richard Taulbut, 9 The Greenway, Lillington, Leamington Spa CV32 7AF	01926 450977
Clarke Walters, 30 Chester Street, Rugby CV21 3NX	01788 552630