To HATE the church bells?

Tuesday evening does seem to be the norm for bell ringing practice - it's the same here!
I have running club on a Tuesday and a Sunday morning, so I never hear the bells. On the rare occasion that I don't go, I always find it really nice to listen to them ringing away for an hour or so.

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Shouldn't have moved there then!!

Isn't that the plot of a movie? The first Airplane?

Why did you buy a house there then? I love our church bells.

Grumpy man was oldish but not THAT old! I saw him out in daylight, so he couldn't be a vampire, so just a regular human. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a grumpy person in Victorian times complaining about carts and the noise of children walking past having moved in to a house close to the new school.

Car park has been there over 40 years and is next to the school. HTH.

A few years ago some one built a new expensive house on the outskirts of our village.
Then complained about the sound of he planes taking off... it was practically at the end of the runway....

Change ringers don’t ring tunes.

But I guess you’re referring to the somewhat uneven sound that comes from inexperienced ringers. That’s why they need to practise— it’s harder than you think to manoeuvre several tonnes of bell in precise time.

when they have their mid week practise/practise (I can never get that right)

I always remember this by reference to advise and advice. So practise is the verb, practice is the noun.

You're never going to win the No-Bell Peace Prize, so get used to it or find somewhere else to rent.

We get far more complaints when we occasionally don’t have a practice than when we do . Same when the clock stops working.

Maybe the rest of the town quite likes the bells

This.

We have clock in our village that chimes quite loudly. It's historic and most people think it's lovely.

Someone moved into a rental property and complained about the noise! Prompted a council investigation into the noise level. People were furious.

Really? The noise of planes and cars is fine, but bells for a relatively short time are "very anti-social"? What a joyless world it would be if we stopped this type of tradition to appease people for whom it comes as an amazing surprise that you might hear bells if you're near a church.

'Distance' being the key word

But it's the same principle, isn't it? Take a flat next to a church, expect things like church bells. Also people parking up the area on Sundays.

Plus the fact that you're renting actually makes it easier to move away than if you had purchased.

Ringing - the pulling up and down of ropes to make a ‘tune’ should never be happening beyond 9pm.

However, most church clocks use the same bells to do the chiming/ding dongs (much quieter) on the hour (or 15 every minutes) 24/7. It’s caused by a tiny hammer tapping at 1-3 of the bells (typically). It might be that you only notice it in the night because there no other sound happening?
There definitely won’t be bell ringers ringing bells at 2 am.

These are the same type of People who move to a rural location and complain about the Farm smells 🤣

That was just a clock, wasn't it?

Thanks yes I assume automated. I guess it doesn’t go in very long I was just surprised as didn’t think they would still be on in the night. Doesn’t bother me though

They won't normally be ringing for 90 minutes non-stop. Practices are always very stop-and-start as they are interspersed with explanations, discussions, and general chat. You only get non-stop ringing for quarter peals, which take around 45 minutes, or for peals, which are definitely rare and take around 3 hours.

That sounds automated, like a clock chime. A band of bell ringers practising change ringing will hold their practice at set times and usually finish by 9pm.

Perhaps you should have done some research before you took on the property?

Lesson learned I hope, maybe you'll pay more attention in future!

You're probably one of "those" who'd choose a property in the countryside and then complain about the noise of cows mooing and the smell of manure being spread over the fields!

I know they aren’t normal tunes. But the same tune can be rung out when services and events are on where it would follow a pattern of “oranges and lemons” (as an example). During bell ringing practice, the sounds that come out are increasingly wild as then night goes on, hence the suspicion they all get pissed because they subject us to wild clanging of bells and not anything with any harmony.

Well now you know to find out if a church has bells before you move near it.

Sounds a bit like one of those people who complain about people speaking Spanish in Spain or Switzerland being too hilly.

The church bells near I often hear during the night. On the hour at say 2am is this unusual? I notice most people saying they finish at 9pm

Try living near a mosque. Getting the call to prayer pumped out via loudspeaker. Used to be near one that was more traditional, just some guy singing. But you can’t complain to anyone about it lol (obviously this was not in Britain).