Dove’s Guide now contains new ways to look at bell data
Friday 1 January 2021
Happy New Year from the Dove Team, and we are pleased announce new functionality on the Dove Web site following the transfer of bell data into the new database just before Christmas:
• You can now search for bells or groups of bells by region, weight, year and/or founder. Just click Search bells in the left hand column.
• You can search details of founders by the year they have been operating.
• You can map the rings which have one or more bells by a particular founder. Here are the towers containing one or more Joseph Hatch bells.
• You can chart the numbers of bells by year of casting. Here are the bells by John Taylor Bellfounders Ltd cast between 1989 and 2006.
• Rings of bells are now displayed separately from other sets of bells in a tower (rather than just other rings of bells). See York Minster.
• Where individual bells fall within a ring AND a chime, they are numbered separately in each. See Hobart Cathedral.
