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<DIV><TT>Jim Hedgecock: <I remember there being a device to count the nu=
mber=20
of times that the <BR>tenor had struck - but it was 1971 when I rang=20
there.></TT></DIV>
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<DIV><TT><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>There is a story about the=20
counter.....</FONT></TT></DIV>
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<DIV><TT><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Pat Cannon was serving in S Wales =
;during=20
WW2 when the bann was lifted. </FONT></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>He took a band to Ebbw Vale and rang a=
peal of=20
Plain Bob Major I think, but in a very quick time... possible less than 3=20
hours.</FONT></TT></DIV>
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<DIV><TT><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Anyway the local tower captain took th=
e view=20
that Cannon had left a course or two out of this peal and had the counter m=
ade=20
and fixed to the tenor so that he could check in future. He was probably=20
right.</FONT></TT></DIV>
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<DIV><TT><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>There is another story about another b=
and that=20
included Cannon ringing a peal there in the 60's. </FONT></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>A certain Mr Thoday calculated that th=
e peal=20
would include his 1 millionth row in peal ringing and also that it would be=
a 65=20
roll-up.</FONT></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I think we might have been a touch gul=
lible=20
but, never the less, George was a big man with the stats so we worked out w=
hat=20
the counter would read at the millionth row and set off. </FONT></TT><=
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<DIV><TT><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>As we struck the landmark, a=
certain=20
Mr Bonham on the 6th, mouth wide open, staring at the counter all=20
agog, missed his dodge an consequently wrecked the row.</FONT></TT></D=
IV>
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<DIV><TT><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Thoday was incandescent. He ranted on =
about how=20
many peals he had carried someone through and how now he had wrecked t=
he=20
highlight of his career... or some such rubbish.</FONT></TT></DIV>
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<DIV><TT><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>All very funny and did we laugh? =
You were=20
allowed to enjoy yourself in peals in those days.</FONT></TT></DIV>
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<DIV><TT><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>awrw</FONT></DIV>
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