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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>There was a good account of Grassendale be=
lls by=20
Peter Furniss (who lives nearby and maintains occasional contact with the=20
church) in RW 9 Dec.1988 p.1157. The bells were retuned by G&J in 1938,=
but=20
rehung dead - in the old fittings - as a chime. 17 peals were rung there be=
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1909 and 1927.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>By the sound of it, the status - chime or =
"lost=20
ring" - does stretch definitions a bit</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Peter told me - when I was in Liverpool ea=
rlier=20
this year - that the church had no interest in having the bells restored fo=
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ringing.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>CP</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<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@yahoogroups=
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, August 29, 2002 11=
:56=20
AM</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Bell Historians]=20
Grassendale</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FON=
T><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2> GRASSENDALE (St Mary) Liverpool</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>This is currently listed as a 'lost' tower, and havin=
g read=20
John Fidler's inspection notes of 1956, I wonder if it still is, despite =
Dove=20
saying in 1962 (Foreign Bells), that the bells were "rehung dead abo=
ut=20
thirty years ago". In 1956, JPF said that "The general condition of the b=
ells=20
and framework is the same as when I last visited this place...since my vi=
sit=20
an electric driven chime barrel has been fixed by G&J, the old clappe=
rs=20
have been replaced by newer ones" and goes on to describe the way the bar=
rel=20
works.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>He "last visited" in 1933 when he found the ring=
of six=20
bells by Hodges of Dublin, 1853, tenor 37.5/8" diam with "dirty, clumsy"=
=20
fittings,"no doubt still serviceable if the frame were good". It is=
not=20
good. Front four above fifth & tenor, rather a poor d=
esign=20
and not in a good state.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>This implies that in 1956 they would better have been=
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described as Unringable., and might still be so described to-day.</FONT><=
/DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>Anyone been up to possibly the only surviving=20
Irish <STRONG>ring</STRONG> in the UK outside Ireland ?</FONT><=
/DIV>
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