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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Getting back to Bamford itself, the old st=
eel six=20
were in three separate wooden 2-bell frames, one above the other.=20
The materials were rather on the slender side as usual with NV, b=
ut=20
each unit was essentially complete. A 3-tier cast-iron frame (or three sepa=
rate=20
iron frames) could go in. The Derwent tenor was 40 1/2", the old Bamford te=
nor=20
39" although the weights differed by a greater margin.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>For a towering wooden frame, which in=
cluding=20
the construction which separates the three bell stages, makes 5 tiers=20
see St Margaret Lee, Kent (illustrated by Dickon on kent.lovesgui=
de)=20
and which until 1963 held a 14-cwt eight (now a 6-cwt 16-bell chime); and f=
or=20
the arch-peculiar of peculiarities, see St Andrew, Norwich, via David =
B's=20
home page (illustrated), or measured drawings in the late Gilbert Thur=
low's=20
<EM>Church Bells & Ringers of Norwich </EM>(1947/48). </FONT></DIV=
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I am sending separately a print of th=
e tower=20
at Derwent following the drought of 1947; it is taken two weeks beforew it =
was=20
blown up.</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:mike@m..."=20
title=3Dmike@m...>Mike Chester</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>=
</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, February 27, 2004 12=
:30=20
AM</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bell Historians] Der=
went=20
Woodlands</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><TT>--- In <A=20
href=3D"mailto:bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com">bellhistorians@yahoogroups=
.com</A>,=20
"David Cawley" <<A href=3D"mailto:dcawley@w...">dcawley@w...</A>>=20
<BR>wrote:<BR>>Derwent tower, like Bamford, had a very small internal =
area;=20
and <BR>whilst I'm sure the light six which replaced the steel bells at t=
he=20
<BR>latter are very nice, it would have been so much better if after the=
=20
<BR>war the Derwent bells could have gone there - especially as the <BR>f=
ormer=20
occupants of Derwent churchyard were reinterred at Bamford.<BR>>=20
<BR><BR>Having rung at Bamford I can say that they are a very nice 6 and =
an=20
<BR>cannot see how the Derwent bells could be successfully hung, with 2=20
<BR>trebles of course, at Bamford. When was the last 3 tier frame=20
<BR>constructed??????!<BR><BR>Mike<BR><BR></TT></BODY></HTML>