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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Cheadle bells were invoiced out from White=
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15 October 1845. However, they weren't the first ring of bells in a Roman=20
Catholic church in England since the reformation. That honour goes (though =
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correct me if I'm wrong) to the ring of six of 1844 by C & G Mears at=20
St.John the Evangelist at Kirkham, Lancs.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Other early rings in RC churches include T=
hurnham=20
(1848), Rainhill (1848), Clapham (1851) and the original steel eight (=
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at Sheffield later transferred to Moseley</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Chris Pickford</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, August 04, 2003 5:20=
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Bell Historians] st Gile=
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cheadle staffordshire</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><TT>I am posting this question on behalf of john cummins=20
ringing & <BR>catholic historian of murwillumbah n.s.w. <BR>john want=
s to=20
know the date of the 1st peal of bells installed for <BR>saint Giles chea=
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staffordshire United Kingdom<BR>john has this information for the group r=
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these bells they were cast <BR>by mears of whitechapple<BR>in 1939 they w=
ere=20
sent to loughbourgh where taylors added 2 bells to <BR>augment up to a ri=
ng of=20
8 at this time they were 1/2 turned<BR>he belives they were only the 2nd =
peal=20
of bells in a catholic church <BR>in england since the reformation..<BR>a=
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help on any details at all on these bells gratefully accepted ..<BR>and i=
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pass it along to john .thanks. john maloney<BR><BR></TT><BR><=
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