About us

Big Wilf and his team started making muffles in 2004 and has pioneered the use of modern techniques in designing new revolutionary church bell muffles. It has been a very successful business manufacturing over 1000 sets of muffles for churches throughout the world.

During 2021 Big Wilf handed the reins to Philip of Avon Ropes Ltd in Bristol who have purchased the enterprise, including several very large industrial sewing machines, industrial riveter, embroidery machinery, tooling and the intellectual property to continue making the same great product, using the same techniques. Avon Ropes Ltd have a great reputation for manufacturing high quality and cutting-edge bell ropes.

Whilst Big Wilf’s intent is to retire from making muffles, his advice and assistance is still available and never very far away.

All the legacy orders and job sheets supplied by Big Wilf’s Bell Muffles have been passed as a hard copy archive to Avon Ropes Ltd to facilitate the manufacturing of full muffles. Please bear with us if we ask a few questions about previous orders to enable us to search the archive more effectively.

“Big Wilf’s Bell Muffles” is now a trading name of Avon Ropes Ltd and registered in England 11552159.

Please DO NOT send anything to our Registered address as it is unlikely to be responded to, it goes to our accountant, but we are required to publish it to meet regulations. Our registered address is 65 Bristol Road, Redwood House, Keynsham, BS31 2WB, United Kingdom. DO NOT SEND ANYTHING TO THIS ADDRESS – Please see the Contact Us page.

Whilst we will do our very best to honour any legacy products not supplied by Avon Ropes Ltd’s brand “Big Wilf’s Bell Muffles”, we aim to provide and honour any warranty claims on products supplied prior to November 2021 but only in collaboration with Big Wilf himself.