In 1993 I had a phone call from the head gardener of Chantmarle Manor, then a Police training college. He told me that a swarm had emerged from a chimney in the Manor House and that, by banging on a sheet of galvanised iron, he had persuaded them to land on a tree in the garden.  So I collected the swarm with an audience of police officers.  I placed it in a hive in a field about a furlong from where I'm now sitting. The following year they swarmed and established a home in the nearby Church tower. They're still there despite varroa as I check each year before the swarming season to see if they have survived the winter.
Chris

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