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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>The other key point to make about these be=
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that they are not listed in Taylors records for the period - for the parish=
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for Llewellins and James, for Petter or anyone else. Pretty conclusive, I t=
hink,=20
that they were not cast at Loughborough</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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m:</B>=20
<A title=3Ddalton.family@v... href=3D"mailto:dalton.family@v...=
et">Susan=20
Dalton</A> </DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A=20
title=3Dbellhistorians@yahoogroups.com=20
href=3D"mailto:bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com">Bell Historians</A> </DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, April 02, 2003 8:=
17=20
PM</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Bell Historians] Glaston=
bury St=20
John ex-7/8</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><TT>Further to MRTH's note here is a list of bells that I =
am=20
aware of by this <BR>founder:<BR>Cherington (Glos) 4/5, 1870, for JW Gard=
ner=20
of Tetbury<BR>Yeovilton, 6/6, 1872, for Petter of Yeovil<BR>Glastonbury S=
t=20
John ex-7/8 and ex-8/8, 1872, for L & J (the latter recast by<BR>Tayl=
or as=20
early as 1877)<BR>Lamphey, (Pembs), 2/4. 3/4 and 4/4, 1874, for L &=20
J.<BR><BR>All these bells are (or were) good castings and well shaped. Th=
ey=20
certainly<BR>bear no resemblance to what Taylors were doing in the early=
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1870s, and<BR>frankly they are superior to bells being turned out by any =
of=20
the mainstream<BR>foundries at that time. I have wondered about a founder=
in=20
Bristol or<BR>Bridgwater (earlier bells cast there also had radial canons=
).=20
But whoever he<BR>was, he was content to put other firms' names on his be=
lls=20
rather than his<BR>own. All very mysterious.<BR><BR>L & J were certai=
nly=20
casting large bells themselves in the 1860s. Charlynch<BR>was probably on=
e of=20
them and there are others at Middlezoy, Stapleton<BR>(Bristol) and St=20
Nicholas, (Glam). But they also went on buying in bells<BR>until the latt=
er=20
part of 1874, by which time they were turning out (fairly)<BR>decent shap=
ed=20
and competently cast bells of their own.<BR><BR>Christopher=20
Dalton<BR></TT><BR><BR><TT>This=20
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