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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Thanks for that. I have found a good site =
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Noyes on the Isle of Wight bells <A=20
href=3D"http://www.noyes.org.uk/iw/towers">www.noyes.org.uk/iw/towers</A></=
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>which list the towers and bells =
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Island. The older bells, 17th century mostly, come from Chertsey, Salisbury=
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Gloucester, and Romsey, but there are a few by 'RB' and 'Anthony Bond' whos=
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foundries are not known it seems, and there is a John Higden who moved arou=
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well.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I now have two documentary references to b=
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being cast in Romsey, where archaeologists have found two foundries of the =
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date but no evidence of bell production, and good archaeological evidence o=
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foundry in Southampton but no written records. C'est la=20
vie! </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>