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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>The succession of Great Bells at Beverley=
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was:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Old Great Bell, 39-2-15 - believed medieva=
l, recast=20
by Smith 1703</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>2nd Great Bell, 35-1-4 - Samuel Smith 1703=
recast=20
and enlarged 1900 by JT into</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>3rd Great Bell, 113-0-21 Ab (later, as Gre=
at Bede=20
of Downside, 106-3-4 in G)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Great John (the only bell to bear this nam=
e),=20
140-3-1 in G, John Taylor & Co 1901</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Smith actually weighed his Great Bell at 3=
5-1-10,=20
in 1703: clearly the scales at that time were not so bad!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>DLC</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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m:</B>=20
<A href=3D"mailto:c.j.pickford@t..." title=3Dc.j.pickford@t...=
m>Chris=20
Pickford</A> </DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A=20
href=3D"mailto:bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com"=20
title=3Dbellhistorians@yahoogroups.com>bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com</A>=
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, August 06, 2003 7=
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AM</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bell Historians] St =
Giles,=20
Cheadle and RC rings</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Okay, Jim - I'll act as your virtual mem=
ory on=20
this one. You wrote to the RW about Speke and Ditton Hall in 1970, and yo=
ur=20
letter is 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 (hen=
ce my=20
interest, and why the reference wasn't hard to find), inscriptions and=20
diameters 1 St.Raphael (29.5"), 2 St.Gabriel (32.5"), 3 St.Michael (35"),=
4=20
St.Bartholomew (36.5"), 5 St.Joseph (40"), and 6 The Great Mother of God,=
Mary=20
Most Holy (44.5") - key between E and F. Hung for ringing, but=20
derelict.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Another earlyish RC ring was the origina=
l six -=20
also by Blews, and dated 1877 - at Leamington. The tenor was 44.25 inches=
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14-1-8 (scrapping weight) - all recast and replaced by the present eight =
in=20
1905.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>On another matter - Beverley - it's wort=
h=20
reminding people that Canon Nolloth's big bells has a worthy=20
predecessor, the original "great John" of 1703 by Samuel Smith, weig=
hing=20
35-1-10 (scrapping weight) </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Chris Pickford<BR>Gorse Farm, Snitterfie=
ld Road,=20
Bearley, Stratford on Avon, CV37 0EX<BR>Tel: 01789 731296 or (mobile) 078=
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453525<BR>E-mail: <A=20
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