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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>The earliest c1903 perhaps (see their website), which i=
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used at Bow in ?1907. The 1912 catalogue illustrates the recast 1911=
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Southwark Cathedral tenor with the heavy version of what was to become thei=
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standard CI stock. Is that stock still on that excellent bell ? =
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on p.7 a "Peal of six bells in Iron Framework on Steel Girders". Only=
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layer of foundation girders, sawpit plan frame with "slab" castings=20
incorporating uprights for gallows-ends and jack-braces. Iron stocks,=
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canons on bells. So pre-1912; anyone who has seen the photo know wher=
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is ?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>Looking at the frame I said, Blackbourn would have been=
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of it - which reminds me that Thomas Blackbourn of Salisbury should be adde=
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your list of 20th-century bellfounders now defunct.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>DLC</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 10 January 2003 22:34</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bell Historians] Re:=
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Obscure questions of the week</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><TT>Dave wrote:<BR><BR>2. Whitechapel cast-iron=20
headstocks.<BR>(a) The earliest I have seen of the present-day type desig=
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at<BR>Goodnestone-by-Adisham in Kent, where they added a treble to make s=
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in<BR>1937. Everything else, excepting two old bells, is of 1911.<BR><BR>=
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