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wasn't aware that the original message was aimed at one individual but I, l=
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everyone else I suspect, didn't, for one moment, believe it was other =
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a 'wind up'.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=3D860023608-07072004><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#0000ff si=
ze=3D2>I was=20
simply stating that it was hard going just trying to hold the cla=
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in place.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=3D860023608-07072004><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#0000ff si=
ze=3D2>No=20
offence taken though.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=3DTahoma size=3D2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> jimhedg=
cock=20
[mailto:jameshedgcock@h...] <BR><B>Sent:</B> 06 July 2004=20
23:03<BR><B>To:</B> bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Be=
ll=20
Historians] Pier Head tenor clapper (was Liverpool Cath.=20
bells)<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><TT>--- In bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com, "Pe=
ter=20
Humphreys" <pfh@w...> <BR>wrote:<BR>> As one of two people tryin=
g to=20
hold the clapper to feed the crown <BR>staple<BR>> through the headsto=
ck (a=20
little while back now), I can assure <BR>anyone it<BR>> is definitely =
not=20
made of low density material such as 'plastic'.<BR>> <BR>The sto=
ry=20
was put about for the 'benefit' of one individual. <BR>Everybody el=
se=20
knew that it was a 'wind up'.<BR><BR></TT><BR></BODY></HTML>