The Keltek Trust: ex-Trinity House Buoy Bells

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buoy bells offered to the Trust showed the majority to be suitable for re-use in churches.

Over 20 bells have been acquired for re-use and all are on offer or sold to churches with proposed destinations including:
Antigua, West Indies.
Balmain, NSW, Australia.
To be hung as part of a ringing peal of bells.
Bangkok, Thailand.
Barbon, Cumbria.
Hung as part of a ringing peal of six bells.
Bath, St Stephen, Lansdown. The tenor of a new ring of six bells.
Clifton, Nottinghamshire, St. Francis. Hung as part of a ringing peal of bells.
Crondall, Hampshire.
Framlingham, Suffolk (RC).
Fulbrook, Oxfordshire.
Hung as part of a ringing peal of six bells.
Kentish Town, St. Silas.
Lagos, Nigeria.
Little Wymondley, Hertfordshire.
Hung as part of a ringing peal of six bells.
Littlehampton, Sussex (RC).
Maplebeck, Nottinghamshire.
Hung as part of a ringing peal of bells.
Menangle, near Sydney, Australia.
Hung as part of a ringing peal of bells.
Nambucca Heads, NSW, Australia.
Orange, NSW, Australia.
Hung as part of a ringing peal of bells.
Potterhanworth, Lincolnshire.
Hung as part of a ringing peal of bells.
Prestatyn, Clwyd.
Hung as part of a ringing peal of six bells.
Queanbeyan, ACT, Australia. To be hung as part of a ringing peal of bells.
Scarrington, Nottinghamshire.
Hung as part of a ringing peal of bells.
South Yardley, Birmingham.
Tanzania.
Vancouver, Canada, Holy Rosary Cathedral.
West Wittering, Sussex.

Christ Church, Prestatyn, Clwyd
Christ Church is the first church where an ex-Trinity House buoy bell has been hung as part of a full-circle ringing peal of bells. The heaviest three of the pre-2003 clock chime are the 2nd, 5th and tenor of the ring. The ex-Trinity House bell is the 3rd and a surplus bell from London is the treble; the ring being completed by a new bell.
The two surplus chiming bells have been acquired by a bell-hanger for a project.

Barbon, Cumbria, St. Bartholomew
is the second church where an ex-Trinity House buoy has been installed as part of a ringing peal of bells. The ring of four were augmented to six by the addition of a newly cast treble bell and an ex-TH buoy bell cast by Taylor's in 1964.

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