Comments on: The Most Famous Bells In The World https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/30/the-most-famous-bells-in-the-world/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 22 Jun 2022 18:11:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Gus Moore https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/30/the-most-famous-bells-in-the-world/#comment-1468506 Wed, 22 Jun 2022 18:11:23 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=155847#comment-1468506 Am just writing a creative piece of prose and needed to capture the sensation of tinnitus. The peace, quiet and stillness was so profound it became unnerving. This haven of solitude had stirred into lassitude a seance of ghostly memories, indistinct, incomplete and incoherent. The silence without brimmed to the meniscus of fullness. Dumb bodily sounds, background radiation from the big bang of conception, both real and imagined, creep from the white canvass of the soul through layers of dry, cracked, peeling and tacky shadows of past and recent everyday events. The rhythmic lub dub of the heart, abdominal growling and real or ethereal Bow Bells infest the inner ear like a throbbing nest of earwigs..

]]> By: Martin Palmer https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/30/the-most-famous-bells-in-the-world/#comment-1143883 Fri, 31 Mar 2017 03:28:25 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=155847#comment-1143883 I am ashamed to admit that despite being a Londoner, born and bred, I have always assumed that the Great Bell of Bow was in Bow Church. However I don’t think my claim to being a cockney is under threat, as I am sure the ringing from St. Mary-le-Bow was audible in 1950 from where I was born.

But… if the BBC World Service had been using Bow Bells to chime the hour for some time, then an awful lot of people worldwide could claim to have been born in the sound of Bow Bells.

The world is full of cockneys!

]]> By: Jim McDermott https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/30/the-most-famous-bells-in-the-world/#comment-1143872 Fri, 31 Mar 2017 01:58:17 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=155847#comment-1143872 An incidental point, but doesn’t Cheapside seem significantly narrower before the Luftwaffe undertook civic improvements to its south side? An illusion, obviously; the steeple still determines the street’s width.

]]> By: Valerie-Jael https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/30/the-most-famous-bells-in-the-world/#comment-1143811 Thu, 30 Mar 2017 14:07:01 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=155847#comment-1143811 Another great bell-tale, thanks for sharing. Valerie

]]> By: Helen Breen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/30/the-most-famous-bells-in-the-world/#comment-1143776 Thu, 30 Mar 2017 08:51:01 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=155847#comment-1143776 Greetings from Boston,

“Occasioning a reverberation within the belfry as powerful as the sound itself, this is not something I shall forget in a hurry.”

GA, thank you for braving the tower to share such a great story…

]]> By: John Barrett https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/03/30/the-most-famous-bells-in-the-world/#comment-1143775 Thu, 30 Mar 2017 08:40:54 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=155847#comment-1143775 Another reason why we must save Whitechapel Bell Foundry the present set of 12 Bow bells were cast at Whitechapel (as per text) its all major history. The foundry has strong association the US, Empire and beyond its international. Come forward cousins and friends out there in the big wide world and help the East End Preservation Soc !please. I liked the modern interpretation by Lawrence Tindall of Dick W and his cat, puss seems so contented cuddled with master. Dick is pondering whether to stay in the big city with hand on chin. Poet John

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