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bells retain their canons?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=3D2>David</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=3DTahoma size=3D2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>=20
matthewhigby@a... [mailto:matthewhigby@a...] <BR><B>Sent:</B> 04 Ap=
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2003 18:47<BR><B>To:</B> bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com<BR><B>Subject:</B=
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[Bell Historians] High Ham<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT=20
face=3Darial,helvetica><FONT size=3D2>In a message dated 04/04/2003 18:27=
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Daylight Time, djb122@y... writes:<BR><BR><BR>
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TYPE=3D"CITE">I see that this week's RW mentions the restoration of the h=
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five at High<BR>Ham (which, in true Somerset fashion, proved quite a bi=
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lighter than<BR>reputed!) Does anyone know exactly what was done? it=20
mentions that the 4th<BR>was badly cracked, and I wonder whether this w=
as a=20
recent development. I<BR>rang there a few times three or four years ago=
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I don't remember<BR>noticing that it sounded=20
cracked.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>The 4th was welded and the treble tuned.=
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five have been rehung with new fittings in the old frame. The 4th had bee=
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badly cracked for years - see tower advisors report in past B&W=20
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