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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> David of course means 1/<STRONG>5</S=
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(the present 2/6, as he says), at All Saints, Norwich. In 1914 JT&=
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fitted the three old bells all with wooden stocks, complete with=20
traditional supporting ironwork and traditional stays and sliders; the new=
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second with a cast-iron box-section stock and a traditional stay and slider=
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the treble with a wrought iron 'bar' stock with Hastings stay and radius sl=
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The reason was and it that a little room was saved thereby, the bell being=
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squeezed into the north-east corner of the tower.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>For the same reason, the tenor of the new =
ring of=20
eight at Felixstowe has a Hastings stay and radius slide, and the rest=20
traditional traditional stays and sliders. But I can't remember seeing Hast=
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stays fitted to timber stocks, as I was telling someone who asked me only l=
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week! </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>DLC</FONT></DIV>
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<A href=3D"mailto:david@b..."=20
title=3Ddavid@b...>David Bryant</A> </DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A=20
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title=3Dbellhistorians@yahoogroups.com>bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com</A>=
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, August 11, 2003 9:45=
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bell Historians]</DI=
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<DIV><BR></DIV><TT>> Been to have a look at the three at Kirkby Overbl=
ow,=20
just south of<BR>> Harrogate. They are hung in a Taylor cast-iro=
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four bell frame and have<BR>> modern fittings except they are on woode=
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headstocks - presumeably to<BR>> preserve the canons (and use them) -=
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though the treble has a broken canon<BR>> and is drilled through the=20
crown. BUT here is the unusual thing they have<BR>> Hastings=20
stays.<BR>><BR>> Is there anywhere else out there with wooden heads=
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and hastings<BR>stays?<BR><BR>Some of the bells at Ambrosden, Oxon - I th=
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What date are Kirkby<BR>Overblow? Presumably it was before canon retainin=
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headstocks came in.<BR><BR>All Saints, Norwich (1914), as I recall, had w=
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stocks on the back<BR>three, and traditional stays and sliders on all exc=
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1/6, which had a<BR>Hastings. Don't know why. Since restoration, the back=
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three are on canon<BR>retaining stocks, and the Hastings stay remains on =
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is now 2/6.<BR><BR>David<BR><BR></TT><BR><BR><TT>This=20
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