<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 30/10/2003 09:42:54 GMT Standard Time, Andrew.Marchant@d... writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Can anyone tell me anything about the Bristol founders Jeffries &Price? I<BR>
was speaking to my father at the weekend and he was asking me about them. We<BR>
got onto the subject of them because of the single 5cwt bell at Kenn near<BR>
Clevedon, Somerset, which he told me is a J&P bell of 1815. <BR>
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The bell at Kenn is by William Jefferies in 1815, not Jefferies & Price- they came later. The 2nd at Cloford, Somerset is dated 1854 by J&P. There was another bell by them at Vobster - the inscritions on their small bells being just:<BR>
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J & P<BR>
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There is a complete octave by W Jefferies, dated 1835/6 at St Matthew, Kingsdown. I am pretty sure this was his only complete ring.<BR>
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Matthew<BR>
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Matthew Higby & Company Ltd,<BR>
Church Bell Engineers,<BR>
Jasmine Cottage,<BR>
The Street,<BR>
Chilcompton,<BR>
Bath,<BR>
BA3 4HN.<BR>
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