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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>1. How did I remember it ? I didn't, but th=
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there must be something appropriate on a Briant ring and immediately=20
thought of St Alkmund's. No, they're not Rudhallian but Wildingian; M=
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Wilding, of High Ercall being the author of numerous of these attractive=20
couplets.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>2. An interesting account of your visit to the tower, w=
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ties in well with the removal of the bells on the E&S video.  =
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What strikes me as pretty appalling is that a small portion of the pro=
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of the sale of the bells was not set aside to wire out the birds. Ugh=
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>There was a front cover article of St A's in the Comic =
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?early 70's following a T&BC inspection by the late Fred Sharpe. =
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that poccasion the bells were rung for the first time for decades and the l=
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time ever. That fine frame is, I think, by George Day of Eye wh=
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rehung the bells about a century ago.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>Forgive all these approximations.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>DLC</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>Has anyone been to Shrewsbury Abbey ? What is the=
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and what are the reasons ?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 14 August 2002 19:37</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bell Historians] FW:=
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<A href=3D"http://www.tenorbox.org.uk">www.tenorbox.org.uk</A>=20
inscriptions</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><TT>> From: D Cawley<BR>> Or, for the less adventuro=
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member, try the treble at Honolulu Cathedral:<BR><BR>> OUR LIFE IS=20
CHANGEFUL VIEW US NOW=20
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SEDATE WE ROSE<BR>IN SIX ; WERE GAY<BR>> IN EIGHT<BR><BR>> Ex St=20
Alkmund's Shrewsbury: founder John Briant.<BR><BR>It does as well (just d=
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out my photocopies of Walters' Shropshire). How<BR>did you remember that?=
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how did this discussion get round to that subject<BR>anyway? Probably bes=
t not=20
to ask!<BR><BR>On a more practical note, St Alkmund's now only has one li=
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bell (21")<BR>from the village of Preston Gubbals, near Shrewsbury, where=
most=20
of the<BR>church was demolished and the remainder vested in the CCT. The =
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is<BR>inscribed 'PEACE AND GOOD NEIGHBOVRHOOD (border) 1720 / (border) A=
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(bell) R<BR>(border)', according to Walters. It is hung for swing chiming=
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the 3rd pit<BR>of the timber 8 bell frame (which is actually in quite goo=
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condition) and<BR>is kept company by vast number of pigeons (alive and de=
ad),=20
and large piles<BR>of pigeon shit! For our more recent members, there are=
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piccys on the<BR>pictures page of the Yahoo page, which I put there a few=
=20
months ago.<BR><BR>David<BR><BR></TT><BR><BR><TT>This=20
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