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<DIV><BR>With Whitwell on the Hill, perhaps if levers had been fitted to al=
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the<BR>bells then they could be classed as a lost ring like Ketton and Giss=
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but<BR>the present situation renders them part lost and part unringable so =
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feel<BR>they should remain listed in Dove.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Rupert Burgess has seen them, and from wha=
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said I believe the front 3 have full wheels, but with the bit below the lip=
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the bell cut out to prevent them being rung full circle (rendering them, in=
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effect, chiming levers). The back three, I think, just have Ellacombe hamme=
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no levers or wheels. I believe the front 3 also have Ellacombe hammers=
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do you classify them then?!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>David Potter tells an amusing story of the=
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time all six were rung. Apparently they were ringing bob minor, and he was =
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the tenor. The wheel somehow stopped, but the bell kept going and smashed a=
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the spokes to pieces. A few years later they went back, hoping to ring the =
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5 as Pete Sanderson wanted to grab them, but another grabbing party had alr=
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been there and the wheels of the front five were in a similar state to the=
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tenor!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>David</FONT></TT></DIV></BODY></HTML>