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St. Mary's, Lowe House, St Helens, Lancashire
The carillon of 47 bells thoroughly overhauled. A new top frame provided for the 17 smallest bells, a new scientifically designed direct-action transmission and new clappers fitted
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St Edmund’s Church, Sedgefield, Co Durham
6 bells, tenor 9-1-2 in Ab
The Ellacombe chiming apparatus has been thoroughly overhauled, hammer positions corrected and additional pulleys fitted to enable the bells to be chimed safely

St Giles’s Church, Desborough, Northamptonshire
8 bells, tenor 9-2-4 in G#
The peal of eight bells rehung in a new bellframe

St Malachi’s Church, Hillsborough, Co. Down
10 bells, tenor 18-3-16 in E
The peal of the ten bells overhauled and the bellframe painted

St Helen’s Parish Church, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire
10 bells, tenor 21- 2-24 in D#
The tenor recast, six of the old bells retuned and two trebles added to complete the peal of ten. The bells rehung with new fittings in a new two-tier framework
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St Andrew's Church, Buxton, Norfolk
6 bells, tenor 10-2-1 cwt in G
The six bells retuned and rehung with new fittings in the existing bellframe
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St Mary’s Church. Walkley, Sheffield
6 bells, tenor 12-2-13 cwt in G
The upper framework replaced, the bells retuned, the fittings overhauled and ball bearings fitted
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St Andrew’s Church, Prestwold, Leicestershire
8 bells, tenor 10-2-21 in F#
The peal of eight bells tuned and the treble, 2nd, 5th, 6th, 7th and tenor bells rehung with partly new fittings in the existing bellframe

Church of St John the Baptist, Stowe by Chartley, Staffordshire
6 bells, tenor 11-2-22 in F
The peal of six bells rehung on ball bearings and the fittings overhauled

St Mary the Virgin, Parham, Suffolk
6 bells, tenor 5-3-4 in A#
The old 2nd bell of the three replaced and three trebles added to make six. A new 8-bell fabricated steel frame installed around the medeival 4-bell frame and the six bells hung with all new fittings.
Having set ourselves a design target of 0.5 mm maximum frame movement we acheived less than 0.2 mm movement.
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St Mary & St Cynidr, Aberyscir, Powys
The two bells rehung in the double turret with new fittings for swing chiming

Primary School, Barrowby, Lincolnshire
The single bell rehung in the turret with new fittings for swing chiming

St Michael & All Angels, Hackthorn, Lincolnshire
6 bells, tenor 8-0-8 in G
Five of the six old bells from Milton, Oxfordshire tuned, a new Taylor treble added and the six bells hung with new fittings in a new fabricated steel bellframe made locally to our design
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St Chad, Saddleworth, Yorkshire
8 bells 10-1-6 in G
The bearings cleaned, clappers rebushed and rollers refurbished, the metalwork of the bell installation cleaned and painted and the woodwork treated
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St James the Greater, Sutton Cheney, Leicestershire
6 bells, tenor 6-0-27 in A#
The old peal of four, rehung with new fittings in a new 6-bell frame in 2003, augmented to six by adding two second hand bells
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St Peter & St Paul, Upton, Nottinghamshire
6 bells, tenor 7-3-12 in G#
The poor-toned 2nd of four removed, the old treble tuned down to replace it and three Taylor trebles added to augment the bells to six. The bells rehung with new fittings in a new fabricated steel 'H' frame on one level and the old bellframe hoisted and placed above it. A new sound control system installed
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