P0Ring out wild bells

The campanille Grantown on Spey. The town bell was originally housed alongside the town clock in a bell tower situated on the orphanage in the Square. The bell and clock were purchased and thevtower was built in 1824 using money which was collected for the relief of soldiers during the Napoleonic Wars but which was never sent. The bell was used to inform townspeople of the opening of shops and to summon them to church. It was removed, along with the clock when the orphanage was converted to flats. The campanille was built to house the bell in 2006 and is outside Grantown Museum.

The extra is the opposite side of the Inverallan Cross slab to the side in yesterday's Blip.

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