A dear Aunty sadly passed away very recently, among her things, her son found this.
We take it, it's on the top of the Cathedral.
"Is that rivet, all thats holding us up here"
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A dear Aunty sadly passed away very recently, among her things, her son found this.
We take it, it's on the top of the Cathedral.
"Is that rivet, all thats holding us up here"
Aye, they're fixing the giant iron rack which the bells sit on. This iron frame is invisible to all in the Cathedral apart from the bell ringers. Cracking picture that.
Picture here of the ringing room:
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I worked as a labourer on the Anglican Cathedral in 1978 and 1979. They were hurrying to get in finished for the official opening in 1978. In 1979 I was back laying paving stones on the roadway to the north end. The paving stones came from the old platform of Exchange Station and lay under ashphalt for decades, so they were in perfect condition. Some of them were six by four foot and five or six inches thick.
amazing picQuote:
Originally Posted by hmtmaj
A chance to have a nose 'after hours' at the top of the Cathedral and also to walk around the floor of the bell chamber:
http://www.liverpoolcathedral.org.uk...18310/429.aspx
EXchange station closed only in the 1970s. The stones were covered in asphalt on the Exchange platform?Quote:
Originally Posted by RonnieW
Thanks, I deffo wanna do it again but possibly nearer the summerQuote:
Originally Posted by Cadfael
I need to go back and take some more footage of the bells in action. That's the only thing the public never get to see. On the very rare occasions, a clapper has shot out of a bell and punched a large hole through the lift door!
The bells were ringing from about 10am yesterday morning until around 2pm - I work near to the Cathdral and after an hour or so they were really getting on me nerves!
I remember going to the top of the Cathedral years and years ago - amazing views.
Cad, is it true that [I may have asked this a few years ago] there is a hole above the arched roof that you can look down from above down into then cathedral? I seem to remember being escorted when I was a kid and we walked over the roof.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cadfael
They were ringing a full peal (4 hours 24 mins!) arranged to mark the 50th anniversary of the very day that the Liverpool University Society of Change Ringers was formed in Liverpool and also as a thanksgiving for the life of Dennis Jones, former Ringing Master of the Cathedral, whose funeral was the previous day.Quote:
Originally Posted by burkhilly
Fraid not. What you have is the 1st lift that will go as far as the base of the tower - just by the corona gallery. Then either walking or taking the lift will take you in to the ringing chamber. If you mean:Quote:
Originally Posted by Kev
http://www.liverpoolcathedral.org.uk...xperience.aspx
(how to change a light bulb)
But if you mean the lights directly under the tower high up then you have to get to them from the ringing chamber floor.
The two pictures below will give you the size of this circle - Great George (14 ton) sitting on the floor of the Cathedral and being lifted up through this space. The diameter of Great George is about 10ft wide.
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Interesting pic's Cad!
What a sight that second one is...and hidden away. It always amazes me the amount of time, effort and expense that goes into some largely out of sight parts of buildings.