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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Who cast the bell at St Silas before the e=
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>David</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A=20
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, April 27, 2002 7:3=
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Bell Historians] Re: Tem=
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Church, Bristol and Holy Trinity, Blackburn</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><TT>--- In <A=20
href=3D"mailto:bellhistorians@y">bellhistorians@y</A>..., "David Bryant" =
<<A=20
href=3D"mailto:djb122@y">djb122@y</A>...> wrote:<BR>> Does anyone h=
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details of what remains on the towers of the <BR>redundant<BR>> church=
es of=20
Holy Trinity, Blackburn, and the Temple church, <BR>Bristol? The<BR>> =
rings=20
of 8 have been transferred from both, and I wondered what in <BR>the=20
way<BR>> of framework remained in the tower - I believe that the Brist=
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<BR>tower, at<BR>> least, still has its frame - what type is it? I've=
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looked around <BR>the ruins<BR>> of the church on several occasions, b=
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the tower has always been <BR>securely<BR>> locked, and on the one occ=
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I wrote to English Heritage (who <BR>own it), I<BR>> received no=20
reply.<BR>> <BR>> David<BR><BR>I was led to believe that a composit=
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frame was installed at Holy <BR>Trinity and it was left in place when the=
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bells were transferred to <BR>S.Silas,Blackburn(the single bell and cast =
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framesides from <BR>S.Silas were scrapped about the same time as the Tayl=
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eight(ex Holy <BR>Trinity) were installed there-they were hung at S.Silas=
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1984 and <BR>are in a ten bell frame).<BR>I shall probably be seeing a fe=
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the people involved with the <BR>removal of the Holy Trinity bells at the=
next=20
Branch meeting(4th May)<BR>and will endevour to confirm that the frame is=
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