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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I've certainly seen something about Wormhi=
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and the foundry, but there's nothing (at a quick look) in Halls / Dawson or=
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the RW articles of 15 March 1996 and 11 Dec. 1998 on the recent=20
restoration.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>It might be worth looking at the Wormhill =
entry in=20
Llewellin Jewitt's series on "Church Bells of Derbyshire", but I don't have=
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ready access to a copy</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=3Dfartwell2000@y... href=3D"mailto:fartwell2000@y...">=
Alan=20
J.Birney</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> Friday, September 27, 2002 1=
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AM</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Bell Historians] Re: Tod=
ays R.W=20
front page tower</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><TT>--- In <A=20
href=3D"mailto:bellhistorians@y">bellhistorians@y</A>..., "Mike Chester" =
<<A=20
href=3D"mailto:mike@m">mike@m</A>...> wrote:<BR>> > 3 Did Taylor=
s have=20
a light transportable exibition/demonstration <BR>> ring <BR>> >=
in=20
the middle to late 1800s?<BR>> > <BR>> <BR>> I've been told b=
y=20
someone, I cannot remember who, that the bells <BR>now <BR>> at Wormhi=
ll=20
were originally such a ring. Perhaps someone could <BR>> confirm=20
this?<BR>> <BR>> Mike<BR><BR>I had heard such a story years ago-I h=
ave=20
asked Barry Pierson<BR>(churchwarden and now a Wormhill ringer) about fif=
teen=20
years ago and <BR>he knew nothing of it.<BR>However,the Wormhill bells we=
re=20
apparantly ordered by a vicar who had <BR>connections with the hamlet of=
=20
Wormhill,and I think the tenor was <BR>taken from stock and the rest cast=
=20
separatly-I think the tenor is a <BR>year older than the front five-The b=
ells=20
were reasonably thick <BR>castings and have responded quite well to=20
retuning,and the bells are <BR>very easy to ring now they have been rehun=
g-a=20
well known Yorkshire <BR>ringer has stated (within the last Fifteen years=
)=20
that a ring of six <BR>should have a tenor of no less than 3cwt-having a =
ring=20
on Wormhill <BR>bells blows that theory out of the water.<BR>The late Gor=
don=20
Halls and everyone else connected with the Wormhill <BR>rehang have done =
an=20
excellent job.<BR>Alan<BR> The two sm=
all=20
bells in the tower previous to the ring of six <BR>were I=20
believe,scrapped.<BR><BR><BR></TT><BR><BR><TT>This=20
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