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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>Very interesting. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>But is that the bell? We shall see; alas, the lad=
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rising through the central hatchway at St Saviour's is not one which I woul=
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trust, so if some silth-like member gets in touch, I can make the arrangeme=
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for him to see the bell at S Saviour's which sounds and feels much too ligh=
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even for 7-cwt!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>DLC</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<A title=3Dj.greenhough@w...=20
href=3D"mailto:j.greenhough@w...>">John Greenhough=20
<j.greenhough@w...></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=
.com</A>=20
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 13 December 2002 16:44</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bell Historians] St=
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Saviour's, Leicester</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><TT>I was informed last night by E&S that the small be=
ll=20
they provided was<BR>one of a pair of JT bells they acquired that were in=
=20
store in the<BR>former school of Holy Innocents, Fallowfield, Manchester.=
The=20
origin<BR>of these bells is unknown; their details I have as 1862, 7 cwt=
=20
and<BR>1914, 10 cwt.<BR><BR>--- In <A=20
href=3D"mailto:bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com">bellhistorians@yahoogroups=
.com</A>,=20
"D Cawley" <<A href=3D"mailto:dave@d">dave@d</A>...> wrote:<BR>>=
=20
Leicester, St Saviour<BR>> <BR>> The church is still in use, and st=
ill=20
in good condition; a noble<BR>example of Sir Gilbert Scott's work. =
The=20
Rector is Fr Alan Hawker, as<BR>pleasant a person as you could wish, and =
who=20
much regrets the loss of<BR>the bells two incumbents ago.<BR>> <BR>>=
; The=20
sad story very briefly is that the church did need to raise<BR>money at a=
=20
critical time. The then incumbent had no time for ringers<BR>(he=20
subsequently came to St Mary's and tried to stop ringing here) and<BR>dis=
liked=20
bells. They had been the subject of increasingly adverse<BR>reports=
, the=20
last dated 1982, by which time they were 105 years old<BR>with only TLC=20
bestowed on them. Though not condemned by the founders,<BR>the bell=
s=20
were silenced on that pretext, and within two years had been<BR>sold to=20
Taylors. With all those other bells lying around they were<BR=
>the=20
most vulnerable of Leicester's lost bells, but they weren't broken<BR>up =
until=20
there just was no room and no takers.<BR>> <BR>> Taylor's actually=
=20
recommended the parish to sell the back 7 and<BR>leave the treble as a se=
rvice=20
bell, and there were other offers to<BR>take them out at no cost to the p=
arish=20
and purchase them at scrap<BR>value - all of which was ignored or=20
rejected. The parish got =A314K for<BR>the bells, spent =A32.5K on =
getting=20
them out and then a further sum on<BR>purchasing from E&S a 3-cwt=20
Eijsbouts bell, hung for swing chiming<BR>with a lever. The remaini=
ng=20
money was spent at was admittedly a<BR>critical time in the life of St=20
Saviour's.<BR>> <BR>> The frame and many of the peal boards remain =
in=20
the tower.<BR>> <BR>> DLC <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> --=
---=20
Original Message ----- <BR>> From: andrewmbull=20
<a.bull@s...> <BR>> To: bellhistorians@y...=
om=20
<BR>> Sent: 09 December 2002 11:48<BR>> Sub=
ject:=20
[Bell Historians] St Saviour's, Leicester<BR>> <BR>>=20
<BR>> As some group members know to their cost, I have for=
some=20
time<BR>been <BR>> updating my list of towers visited with=
more=20
conscise information <BR>> than was available at the time,=
with=20
respect to founders, weights, <BR>> diameters, history of =
the=20
individual ring. For much of this <BR>> information I am=20
indebted to the great kindness of some members of <BR>> th=
is=20
list.<BR>> Over the weekend I was writing up some Leiceste=
r=20
towers visited <BR>> during an open-day in 1982. Among the=
se=20
was St Saviours, a heavy <BR>> eight. I have full details =
of=20
the bells themselves, and noted at<BR>the <BR>> time that =
these=20
bells had in recent years been restored from an <BR>> =20
unringable state. I have since noted from Dove and the list of<BR>lost=20
<BR>> rings available on the Keltek website, that these be=
lls=20
were<BR>scrapped <BR>> in 1984.<BR>> Do any=
list=20
members know why these bells were removed and scrapped<BR>?=20
<BR>> Is the church still open, or has it been closed and/=
or=20
demolished<BR>?<BR>> It would seem that 1984 was a bad yea=
r for=20
ring of bells in <BR>> Leicester, the rings at All Saints =
and=20
St John the Divine also<BR>being <BR>> removed in that yea=
r,=20
but at least those rings went to new homes.<BR>> <BR>> =
=20
Andrew Bull<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> This message was sent t=
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via the Bell Historians' Mailing<BR>List. To unsubscribe from the list se=
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