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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Don't know about the British Museum, but t=
here are=20
or were certainly a number in the courtyard of the V&A. Also there is k=
ept=20
the Warner Collection of Founders' Marks and bits of a lot of interesting b=
ells=20
(including one or two pieces of pre-1920 Mangotsfield !) - RWMC made a cata=
logue=20
of them.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Bells which come to mind immediately to me=
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are:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Canterbury, Heritage Centre (the Poor Prie=
sts'=20
Hospital):</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Former tenor of 3 from St Giles, Kingston,=
Kent - W=20
le Belyetere, Canterbury c1325. Full details of Kingston are on <A=20
href=3D"http://kent.lovesguide.com">http://kent.lovesguide.com</A> - a=
lost=20
ring of three.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Former tenor of three (2-1-8) ex St Mary B=
redin,=20
Canterbury (destroyed in Blitz) R Kerner, Canterbury, with arabic date 1505=
-see=20
my Christmass article in the RW, "The lost churches and bells of Canterbury=
". It=20
is just about to appear on lovesguide, I am assured :)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Part of the inscription band and a canon o=
f the=20
former Boughton Aluph tenor - full details in Lovesguide. A lost 5, scrappe=
d by=20
G&J.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Dover Museum used to have the former Marke=
t House=20
Bell (J Clifton c1630) and the bells from Kearsney 'Abbey' (Mears). Museum=
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relocated, bells in store.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>St Peter Hungate, former Church Museum. Th=
e 3 bells=20
ex Burlingham St Andrew, on view since c1935 are going to be rehung for chi=
ming=20
in the old 6-bell frame at New Buckenham, whose 6 bells are to be augmented=
to 8=20
and hung lower down the tower. The crown of the old St George Colegate 2nd =
of 3=20
and the old St Peter Hungate former 2nd of 3 are in store; the sanctus bell=
is=20
still up the tower.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Bristol Museum has the medieval West Hatch=
bell in=20
store now - oh that it was welded and sent back there to replace the indiff=
erent=20
specimen of L&J's workmanship. Also now in store the Eastville Union=20
Workhouse bell. The small bell ex St Ewen, Bristol, now removed from the mu=
seum=20
store and hung in Christ Church as a sacring bell. In the main hall of the=
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museum the huge Chinese bell (several tons of it) from Berkeley=20
Castle.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Leicester Museum doesn't believe in bells =
and is=20
just putting its interesting collection of turret clocks into store - not t=
he=20
one from St Mary de Castro, though. We are collecting it in the next couple=
of=20
weeks (the oldest turret clock in the city I think) and going to set it up =
in=20
the church.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>There must be hundreds of bells in museums=
up and=20
down the country.</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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<A href=3D"mailto:andrew@w..." title=3Dandrew@w...>Andrew W=
ilby</A>=20
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<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> Tuesday, July 06, 2004 1:28=
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PM</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Bell Historians] Bells i=
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museums</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><TT>There are of course quite a few from around the world =
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the British Museum.<BR>They must be listed somewhere?<BR><BR><BR></TT><BR=
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