Yesterday we rang for a service at Daybrook St Pauls for the last time for a good few months.
Our tower captain's decades of fundraising have finally paid off and the bells are due a big renovation, including some tuning work, and a new frame, lower in the tower.
They have been getting steadily worse over the few years I have been ringing them, and some, in particular the 5, have something seriously wrong with them.
I remember now over 25 years ago when the bells of St Patrick's Ballymena fell silent for recasting and major work on the tower. I will never forget hearing the twelve there ringing out for Midnight Mass in 1987 - a fantastic sound. I hope that Daybrook will be ringing out for Christmas this year as they hope.
