<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 04/05/02 22:06:39 GMT Daylight Time, djb122@y... writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">But wasn't the aim at Bath atleast to hang them without clappers and<BR>
use a simulator?<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">It was intednded to use them as a base for a ringing centre - the building is now used as a comunity hall and the ringing chamber is used for storing boxes. The bellchamber lies empty except for the base grillage of the bellframe and it was intended to build a bellframe on these as before. There was no support from the localbranch which was then (and still is) in serious decline from what it used to be.<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">On the subject of Bath, I should think the six from there were a real<BR>
loss - 1894 Taylor's and by all accounts of good tone, and in the end<BR>
serving as no more than a supply of scrap metal for Midsomer Norton's<BR>
augmention.<BR>
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You have to blame the diocese for that - it would never happen these days. David Purnell told me that he bought the entire Lyncombe installation in 1975 for £500.<BR>
Just as a point of interest - the peal boards from Lyncombe (including somemade from slate) are now at St Matthew, Widcombe.<BR>
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If I had been there - I would have done my best to stop the destruction of these bells - the only decent 6 in the city - I was 2 years old at the time:-(<BR>
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Matthew<BR>
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