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<DIV><FONT color=3D#0000ff size=3D2>Adding a line to that, it's worth notin=
g that=20
despite Big Ben going to Mears, the 3rd quarter recasting was done by Warne=
r -=20
what date he put on the bell as Chris says ought to be checked.</FONT></DIV=
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<DIV><FONT color=3D#0000ff size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=3D#0000ff size=3D2>DLC</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=3Dc.j.pickford@t... href=3D"mailto:c.j.pickford@t...=
">Chris=20
Pickford</A> </DIV>
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title=3Dbellhistorians@yahoogroups.com=20
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 23 April 2002 09:28</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bell Historians] Bel=
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Recordings</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Just to add a note that Chris Dalton rec=
ently=20
found some material in the John Harris collection (at Devizes Museum) to=
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indicate that the 3rd quarter bell was recast in 1858. The present bell i=
s 33=20
2 22.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I wish I'd taken rather more notice of t=
he dates=20
when I went up to see the bells a few years back!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>CP</FONT></DIV>
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rom:</B>=20
<A title=3Ddave@d...=20
href=3D"mailto:dave@d...">D Cawley</A> </DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A=20
title=3Dbellhistorians@yahoogroups.com=20
href=3D"mailto:bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com">bellhistorians@yahoogrou=
ps.com</A>=20
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, April 22, 2002 10:=
06=20
PM</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bell Historians] B=
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>Just for the record, Warner's catalogue of 1911=20
gives:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>1st quarter: 3' =20
9" 1 ton 1=20
cwt =20
A</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>2nd quarter: 4' =20
0" 1 ton 6=
=20
cwt &n=
bsp; =20
G &=
nbsp;=20
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>3rd quarter: 4' =20
6" 1 ton 15 cwt 0=
=20
qr 6 lb F</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>4th quarter:=20
6' 0" =
=20
3 tons 17 cwt 3 qr 24 lb C</FONT><=
/DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>Big Ben: 9' =20
5.1/2" 16 tons 11 cwt 2 qr 20 lb* &n=
bsp;=20
E</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2> &=
nbsp;=20
7' 10.1/2" high</FONT></DIV=
>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2> &=
nbsp;=20
9.5/8"&n=
bsp;=20
soundbow</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>* Weight with clapper. The net weight was=20
15-18-1-22</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>"Those great tough Warner quarter chimes" as Chris =
Dalton=20
once called them; the enconia of <EM>The Times </EM>and of the organist=
of=20
Westminster Abbey were still being printed over 50 years after the disa=
ster=20
of the first Big Ben!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>For purely sentimental reasons I wouldn't want to l=
ose the=20
raucous sound of the present bell; but I'd have loved to have heard the=
=20
original. I still have a suspicion that Denison had it flogged to =
death=20
(whatever he might have said in the Press re casting faults) because of=
the=20
possible difficulties in getting it up into the tower, although the sha=
ft is=20
11' 4" x 8' 2". Significantly the Mears bell is reduced to 9=
' 0"=20
diameter and 7' 6" high. The two cracks don't go =
right=20
through the bell as I found when up there recently, the square "hole" (=
said=20
to be to stop the cracks speading, but originally made to provide sampl=
es=20
for the litigious parties of 1859) being about 2" deep. I guess t=
he=20
present bell sounds now much as it has always done.</FONT></DIV>
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>From:</B>=20
<A title=3Djohn.ketteringham@n...=20
href=3D"mailto:john.ketteringham@n...">john ketteringham</A> =
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 22 April 2002 19:19</DIV=
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Bell Historians] Bel=
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Recordings</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><TT>Can anyone tell me the weight of the largest of th=
e=20
clock chime bells of the<BR>Houses of Parliament (not Big Ben!) =
=20
Thanks<BR><BR>From : John Ketteringham of Lovely Lincoln in Lincolnsh=
ire,=20
England<BR><BR><A=20
href=3D"http://homepage.ntlworld.com/john.ketteringham">http://homepa=
ge.ntlworld.com/john.ketteringham</A><BR>Friends=20
of Lincoln Cathedral : <A=20
href=3D"http://www.eccentrix.com/misc/lincoln/">http://www.eccentrix.=
com/misc/lincoln/</A><BR>Bell=20
Recordings : <A=20
href=3D"http://www.eccentrix.com/personal/johnketteringham/">http://w=
ww.eccentrix.com/personal/johnketteringham/</A><BR><BR></TT><BR><BR><TT>Thi=
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