Bow Bells

[Barry]

A while ago, I think on the "Old Board" and posted by Bob Rogers there was some research done on the range of Bow Bells.
Taking into account there were no High Rise buildings, little noise pollution as we know it today and favourable wind conditions. Our bells could be heard in a circle using Croydon as the radius!!!!!

[janboyce]

Funnily enough, I drove down Cheapside with my friend on Sunday before last, and as we drove past Bow church, told her that they were the Great bells of Bow, and not "our" Bow church.
I don't remember the previous postings on this, sorry!
Jan

[sankeysalley]

Funnily enough, I drove down Cheapside with my friend on Sunday before last, and as we drove past Bow church, told her that they were the Great bells of Bow, and not "our" Bow church.
I don't remember the previous postings on this, sorry!
Jan

[sankeysalley]

I have not yet mastered posting to this site and I appear to have re posted an original posting regarding Bow bells.  When this famous peal was cast and put back in the restored church following war damage, the bells were hung in a timber frame with the wood being supplied by the Canning Town of Howard Bros.  The timber used was Yang (Dipterocarpus) and was cut to size in Siam (now Thailand).  The huge baulks of timber were unloaded from Marriots barge and included timber for the bellframes at Great Yarmouth and Kennington.  The wood was completely free of knots and came from the very large evergreen tree growing to a height of 150 feet or more with 70 foot to the first branch.  Incidentally Marriots tug the William George is preserved but has a new engine and name.  It was a regular sight going under the iron bridge at Canning Town on what was then a very busy river.  I spent many happy hours working for Howards and my user name of Sankeysalley refers to an alley at Crown Wharf which allegedly was named after the composer of Sankeys songs and solos who was supposed to have had premises there.