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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>At Whitechapel=
, they used=20
to call then Denison heads - not Doncaster heads. </FONT>Either Alan or Bil=
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Hughes once told me that the first Mears & Stainbank bell with a flat t=
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was at Bishops Cannings (Wilts) in 1897. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Barwell of Birmingham produced bells with =
Doncaster=20
heads from 1880 and continued to use them occasionally until the eve of Wor=
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War I. Some of their rings have Doncasters on the lighter bells and flat to=
ps on=20
the tenors. There are flat topped bells from 1894, if not earlier</FONT></D=
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Carrs of Smethwick cottoned on to the adva=
ntages of=20
flat tops by about 1903, and most of their bells thereafter were cast witho=
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canons</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>CP</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Re-sent - as first attempt scrambled</DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>