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Lovely,,, Thankyou ❤️

Finely toned bells.

We have a church where we live in Hyde called St George’s they are also a Taylor 8 and they sound exactly like the ones here at Gravesend but the St George’s in Hyde Taylor 8 were cast in 1920.

This is definitely what I need at 4am

Nicely done! Alex told the other day, about how the tenor's clapper had seized or something, during a quarter and just stopped striking.

Nice bells….shame about the absolute monstrosity of a cathedral mind you!

They sound beautiful I would love to give these a try someday :)

These really are an amazing sounding 10. There is a warmth about them that is hard to explain.

Wow what a find, thats particularly special that you found something like this

Plain hunt 11.

Really lovely bells, a masterpiece of Taylors, they sound lovely outside too.

Didn't know Blackburn was in Sussex!

Not rung here - but going off of video they seem far better as an 8 or 10 - both acoustically and in terms of ease?

John Taylor & Co

Very nice

Light

Nice Taylor 10, I think Maidstone sound better outside , but then again Bells are to towers like guitar strings to the guitar and some guitar bodies will make the same strings sound different.

They sound like the front 12 of St Martins Birmingham.

I've never seen a sally at the tail-end like that before. Presumably it's not temporary as it's on every one?

I think they’re in Db but still a very nice ring

They have a very sweet tone to them. I like them.

Glorious bells!

hohoho

Skipton are gorgeous!!!!!!! So are Whalley & Clitheroe up Lancashire.

Lovely bells.

Hi

32cwt tenor clapper being flipped at All Saints Maidstone.

Hello Graham, why did the tenor get a new clapper, I thought it already had a wooden shafted clapper. Also, with the new clapper, does the tenor go up right, or do you still need to flip the clapper

Absolutely lovely and so nostalgic for me living in Aus for 52 years. Dad was a whitechapel bell hanger till 1972 and apart from ringing tours i used to go with dad during school holidays and help him Apart from ringing bells up for dad i was the one who had to go down to the trucj to get all manner of stuff in luding clappers etc. I w9uld also explore the church and surrounds, the smell of cool stone and timber, the smell of grass and the bird song, i so wanted to live in places like this but alas had to return home to north London , with traffic street lamps and anti social behaviour. I remember going down to Devon and it was so rural and the only crimes seem to be somebody had pinched some turnips

I don't know what it is about this church but every time I went it just feels quintessentially Sussex. Thanks for the video Graham

Im not much into old style bells perhaps the exception is St Pauls which epitomises to me the sound of London. Bath are certainly no Maidstone , i wonder how they would sound if retuned

It was making it quite hard to get it up right even if two people were pulling

Up right

Very nicely struck and a good rhythm too 😊

Why did it have a new clapper. The old one had a wooden shaft.

anticlockwise

Such punch.

I often play the touch of Stedman Caters with which your ringers won the Essex Trophy in 2014 - it was superb striking.

That must be double clappering , I can't see how it can hot both sides. Think about it, when you raise a bell the clapper on.y strikes one side of the bell for a while. I love the tenor bell.

Leigh on Mendip pre retune.. it's amazing how much they have improved.

Guess who commented in your video and one of my videos? Me!

Same

Sounds like the bells at Doncaster

Itʼs the 32cwt tenor.

Hey! What’s up Maidstone Captain? Is today/tonight good?

My friend Owen rings here

one of my all time favourite rings

I WHANT TO RING HERE SO BAD BUT I CAN'T TRAVEL I NEED HELP RINGING

Weighs 65cwt (16,500 lbs)

Well, this weighs 16,500 lbs (7,500 kg)