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Have any pictures of the wood or joints or signatures that you mention?

• kweks 8y ago
  My partner shot the inside of the spire, but I have a few quick shots. On one of the sides I did - there were the traces of what we could only assume to be some type of explosion (probably a stray explosive from WW2 ..?). There are also the eagles that were halfway up the spire. Curiously enough, there were six, each one had a number stamped on its head - if you traced the numbers, it made a star composed of 2 equilateral triangles. It seems the North Tower has since caught fire as well - so the bells will have gone, and all of the stored relics too - so some photos of those. https://imgur.com/gallery/Z9YOErf https://imgur.com/gallery/Z9YOErf
  • bobwaycott 8y ago
    The bells are in the South Tower, iirc.
    • kweks 8y ago
      No, they're in the North Tower. The bells are suspended in a wooden structure that is free-standing, and free moving inside the stone structure. This allows free movement when the bells are ringing, without stressing the stones. It was a priority to extinguish the north tower fire to prevent the bell structure from collapsing - the falling bells would have destroyed the stone structures on the way down, presumably triggering the collapse of both towers..