Award nominations

The Strensham bells project was nominated for a major national award!

The Heritage Hero awards are organised by the Heritage Alliance and the winners are announced at their annual Heritage Day event held at the Tower of London.

The 2019 Heritage Day was originally due to take place in November, but was was postponed to February 26th because of the General Election.

Although we didn't win, we were one of the seven shortlisted projects. Considering just how many heritage based projects there must be going on at the moment, this is quite an achievement.

This is a screenshot from slides presented at the awards ceremony.

We were also nominated for a Churches Conservation Trust Volunteer of the Year award, but we didn't win that either!

Sound Control

Now that we are ringing the new 8, it's time to try to lower the volume of the bells outside the tower, especially towards the North and East sides where we have the neighbours to consider.

 

This will involve boarding up the tower windows, a job which was started tonight. This is the East window, almost fully boarded. The idea is to put a layer of carpet tiles on the boards to further reduce the sound levels.

The South side will be partially blocked up just to prevent the 3rd bell from 'shouting' too loud in the churchyard.