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c. 1840-1950
For many years it was the dinner bell at Grefsheim that set the rhythm of the working day.
Work began at seven in the morning. At eleven the bell rang for dugurd, a larger mid-morning meal. At half past twelve it was back to work, and at five the bell rang for dinner.
It was also used to warn of fire and accidents.
The bell hung in a tower on the farmhands' house, a building from around 1830 also described as a storehouse and brewhouse. After the farm fire of 1902 the building was moved about 100 metres north of the main house, and in 1904 it got a new bell tower in Swiss chalet style. The farmhands' house and the tower were demolished around 1960.
As working life on the farm changed, the dinner bell lost its old role. But the tradition of ringing in Whitsun was kept.
Grefsheim got a new bell tower in 1993, raised on the former stable building.
Source: County Governor of Innlandet: Dinner-bell towers in Hedmarken, record for Grefsheim. Gunhild Kolstad: Nes bygdebok (1995).