CLYDEBANK : SCOTLAND-SC

*Location:

   Town Hall
   Dumbarton Road at Hall Street
   Clydebank, Strathclyde, Scotland
   OS Ref. NS 50 69 (or 49 70)
   LL: N 55.90108, W 4.40804
Site locator map
City locator maps and gazetteer page (County is wrong; other data are correct.)

*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Town Hall
   49 Dumbarton Road
   Clydebank  G81 1TX
   - or -
   West Dunbartonshire Council
   Garshake Road
   Dumbarton  G82 3PU
   T: 01389/737000
   - or -
   Environmental Services
   Events and Halls Section
   West Dunbartonshire Council
   Clydebank Town Centre Office
   10 Sylvania Way South
   Clydebank  G81 1EA
   T: 01389/738282   F: 0141/9410932
   E: contact.centre@west-dunbarton.gov.uk

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Bells cast 1929, but installation is
   reported as 1931.

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (baton keyboard) of  8 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is G  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   There are no added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1929
     with bells made by Gillett & Johnston
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 2006
*Links:

An archived regional council article about the Clydebank Town Hall reports installation of the clock, Westminster chimes and "carillon" in 1931, 2 years after the bells were cast.  The sentence about the clock and bells really belongs early in the second paragraph, not in the middle of the third paragraph.

A regional council Website has a page about the history of the town hall, with historic and current photos of the building, and mention of installation of the clock and bells in 1931.

A local publicity Website has a description and photo of the building; a much larger image of the building is available.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Gillett & Johnston bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all British Isles chimes by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all British Isles chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all British Isles chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Scotland.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 14-Dec-20
   based on textual data last updated on 2020/12/12
   and on technical data last updated on 2007/01/17
*Photos:

(none available)

Explanations of page format and keyboard range are available.

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