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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>In his e-mail, Roger Stokes mentioned the =
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connection. In filing a copy, I came across a copy of a Stokes=20
advertisement with an extract from the <EM>York Herald</EM> of 4 April 1882=
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"Yesterday afternoon, Mr. H. Stokes, Church Bell Hanger of Woodbury, Exeter=
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completed the work of fixing the chiming apparatus invented by the Rev. H.T=
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Ellacombe ... whereby the peal of Twelve Bells in the south-west tower of Y=
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Minster are brought under the control of one person ..."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>So this gives the date and shows what was=
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done.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Hooper, of course, was Thomas Hooper. Stok=
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later in partnership (in 1881) with Mrs. C Hooper - presumably the widow -=
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before going into business on his own</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Chris Dalton and John Scott can probably a=
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great deal more. I just thought it worth passing on the York reference to s=
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anyone else from hunting for it"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Chris P</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>