Little update:
I got in touch with Jonathon Wild who runs www.stlukeliverpool.co.uk
In reply to the question of the bells he states:
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“The bells were installed in to the first ever metal bell frame in 1828 and continued to sit there till the night of the bombing on the 6th of May 1941. The flames reached to the bell chamber where 5 of the bells fell to the floor of the tower and cracked, the 3 remaining bells were left hanging there.
They were taken down in due course where the Liverpool Corporation sold them for scrap in the 1960’s, sadly.
The bells were considered a problem due to them being situated at the bottom of the louvers so the sound beat down directly below (if you visit Childwall - they have the same issue). Sound control was done to a fair extent and two of the remaining ringers in 1995 who rang the bells of St Luke’s said they were a melodious peal but always in competition with the ring of 10 at the Pro-Cathedral and the ring of 12 at St Nicholas Pier Head.”
So it seems that those early fans of the bells won the day and they remained in place at St Luke’s for a total of 117 years until Hitler’s airforce silenced their chimes forever.
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