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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Derwent Woodlands, Church of SS John &=
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James</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Ancient site.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Rebuilt church consecrated 18.8.1869</FONT=
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Tower and spire added 1873</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>4 bells with CI stocks & frame Taylor=
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1901</FONT></DIV>
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size=3D2> =
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Treble 31" C 6-0-17</FONT><=
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial=20
size=3D2> =
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2nd 32 1/2" B 6-1-27</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial=20
size=3D2> =
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3rd 36 1/4" A 8-2-16</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial=20
size=3D2> =
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Tenor 40 1/2" G 11-3-6</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>1920 Derwent Valley Water Act </FONT></DIV=
>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>1935 Building of the Ladybower Reservoir=20
begins</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>1937 Water Board puchases Church</FONT></D=
IV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>1938-40 Human remains removed to Bamford (=
of steel=20
bells fame) churchyard</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>March 17th 1943 Last service in Derwent ch=
urch.=20
Fittings including bells removed, and all except tower & spire demolish=
ed in=20
1944.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>September 5th 1945 Ladybower Reservoir ope=
ned by=20
King George VI. The high water level was to be just below the belfry window=
s of=20
the church tower.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>December 15th 1947 During abnormally low w=
ater, the=20
tower was reunited with dry land. The Water Board panicked an blew it up. L=
ast=20
year the Ladybower was again very low and BBC2 <EM>Learning Zone </EM>had a=
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programme on Sheffield and its water, which followed much of the progress=20
related above. The lower walls of the church were quite accessible.</FONT><=
/DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>The book Bill refers to is I think "Silent=
Valley"=20
by V Hallam, but the photograph in it of the "tower being blown up" is a mo=
ck up=20
with the intact structure at 45 degrees - the film actually showed it colla=
psing=20
vertically on its base.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Bells certainly went to Chaddesden (1) and=
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Scarcliffe (2, as 3/5), and the other two were recast. What a shame, vintag=
e=20
Taylor and they look a nice chunky lot. Derwent tower, like Bamford, had a =
very=20
small internal area; and whilst I'm sure the light six which replaced the s=
teel=20
bells at the latter are very nice, it would have been so much better if aft=
er=20
the war the Derwent bells could have gone there - especially as the former=
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occupants of Derwent churchyard were reinterred at Bamford.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>DLC</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style=3D"BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>Fro=
m:</B>=20
<A href=3D"mailto:bill@h..." title=3Dbill@h...>Bill=20
Hibbert</A> </DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A=20
href=3D"mailto:bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com"=20
title=3Dbellhistorians@yahoogroups.com>bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com</A>=
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, February 26, 2004 =
3:11=20
PM</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Bell Historians] Derwent=
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Woodlands</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><TT>I was looking at the list of lost rings on the Keltek =
site=20
and <BR>happened to notice the following entry:<BR>Derwent Woodlands: Bel=
ls=20
dispersed;2 recast; 2nd at Scarcliife<BR><BR>I seem to remember from some=
where=20
that some of the bells went to <BR>Chelmorton - possibly from a book abou=
t the=20
Derwent reservoir. I can <BR>look it up if needed.<BR><BR>Bill=20
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