![]() This won’t be easy as it is so far up and nothing must be allowed to fall and damage the working of the bells and will mean installing a temporary floor to carry out the work and scaffolding all the way up to the top of the tower, as the tower stairs are too tight to allow materials to be taken up that way. To keep the bell-frame and everything inside the tower safe and dry the current tower roof needs to be removed and replaced with a wooden one, as the building was originally designed for. The flag pole is increasing the problem, as it rocks in the wind, especially when there is a flag up and causes movement in the roof beams. The reinforced concrete beams are now splitting, debris is falling putting parts of the tower, including the bell-frame, at risk and preventing the bell tower sound dampers from closing, as an increasing amount of water is coming through. In 1949 the original timber roof was replaced with a concrete one. The tower roof above the clock has developed a leak and is letting rain into the tower and onto the bell-frame. An automatic winding system is to be installed as currently, one man pulls the extremely heavy weights up the inside of the tower once a week, a simple mechanism with few changes to the workings of the clock could do this automatically and safely. ![]() The clock, made by John Moore & Sons of Clerkenwell, London, dated 1864, seen by many on this famous part of the World Heritage site skyline has worn out and stopped, so it needs to be taken apart and the worn parts replaced. What are the problems and what do we need to do?
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