<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 29/10/02 19:39:45 GMT Standard Time, a.bull@s... writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">According to the notes in my "towers grabbed" records, compiled from <BR>
Ringing World articles and correspondence with Whitechapel, the tenor <BR>
was rehung "between the wars", and in 1946 the remaining bells had <BR>
their canons removed in the tower, and were fitted with new metal <BR>
headstocks. As you say, it is strange that there isn't an exact <BR>
weight for the ninth, though the tenor weight could be seen as having <BR>
been rounded to the nearest eighth hundredweight.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">The tenor and 9th were rehung in 1945 (the tenor with a new headstock made to the smale pattern as Sherbourne). The other bells were fitted with cast iron headstocks when the 6th was recast in 1969 - hence the most recent design of WBF headstocks. There is a photograph in the tower of the back bells outside the Cathedral in 1891 (Blackbourne & Greenleaf are also in the photo) so the bells definately left the Cathedral then. I seem to remember the weight on the 1891 peal board is 57+cwt - Ill check when I next go.<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Perhaps MRTH could get up there with a large spanner and a set of <BR>
industrial scales, like they did at Congresbury ?</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Just bide your time - they may leave the tower for a while in the not too distant future............<BR>
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