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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>My own policy is, if you can get at them, =
or if=20
they are visible in a gable through binoculars, details are not out o=
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place under the appropriate parish. And of course, you come across th=
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occasional treasure: such as the former school bell at Eastryk Kent, now in=
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ringing chamber - a Victorian village school with a 14thC bell with "=
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heads" - and no-one knows how they got it !</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>At the very least, the existence of the be=
ll ought=20
to be recorded if it has been noticed; its presence is then a matter of rec=
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details or not.</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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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, September 14, 2003 2=
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Bell Historians] school=
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bells</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><TT>Another 'what's your opinion' question for my York=20
book.<BR><BR>Like many cities, York has a large number of Victorian prima=
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schools with<BR>little bells hung in turrets. Those which I've looked at =
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binoculars are<BR>almost all uninscribed, brass-foundry castings, peg arg=
ent,=20
swing chiming.<BR>If I try to include very such bell it will take a=20
considerably amount of<BR>time and effort to track them down and look at=
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them.<BR><BR>My question, therefore, is whether people think it is worth=
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including school<BR>bells in surveys. Opinions=20
please!<BR><BR>David<BR><BR></TT><BR><BR><TT>This=20
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