A group of 50 villagers and friends visited John Taylor's Bell Foundry in Loughborough yesterday. There, after a tour around the small museum and the works, we witnessed the casting of our 3 new bells. Among the party were Year 5/6 from the village school, 4 descendants of the 6 men from the village who were killed in WWI and who will be commemorated on one of the bells and donors of the 2 other bells.
It was a very moving experience watching this historic occasion which sees the completion of a scheme started with the rehanging of 4 bells at Drayton in 1964.
No date has been set yet for the new bells arriving in Drayton and being rehung. This will be at the earliest late June/ early July. But I will keep you posted as this will be an opportunity for people to see the bells at close quarters before they are hoisted up the tower.
I will attach a link later to an album of photos taken by Kevin Jackson, a ringer from Tamworth, who did all the technical drawings for our faculty application.
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