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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Okay, Jim - I'll act as your virtual memor=
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one. You wrote to the RW about Speke and Ditton Hall in 1970, and your lett=
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in RW 18 Sept.1970 p.734.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Ditton Hall are a Blews six of 1878 (hence=
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interest, and why the reference wasn't hard to find), inscriptions and diam=
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1 St.Raphael (29.5"), 2 St.Gabriel (32.5"), 3 St.Michael (35"), 4 St.Bartho=
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(36.5"), 5 St.Joseph (40"), and 6 The Great Mother of God, Mary Most Holy=20
(44.5") - key between E and F. Hung for ringing, but derelict.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Another earlyish RC ring was the original =
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also by Blews, and dated 1877 - at Leamington. The tenor was 44.25 inches a=
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14-1-8 (scrapping weight) - all recast and replaced by the present eight in=
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1905.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>On another matter - Beverley - it's worth =
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people that Canon Nolloth's big bells has a worthy predecessor, the=20
original "great John" of 1703 by Samuel Smith, weighing 35-1-10 (scrapping=
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weight) </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Chris Pickford<BR>Gorse Farm, Snitterfield=
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Bearley, Stratford on Avon, CV37 0EX<BR>Tel: 01789 731296 or (mobile) 07811=
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453525<BR>E-mail: <A=20
href=3D"mailto:c.j.pickford@t...">c.j.pickford@t...</A></FONT><=
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