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<DIV>"The Lighthouse Stevensons" is indeed a fascinating book. I bought min=
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after a Quarter at St Mary's Basilica, Sydney in 2000 (we rang it while the=
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Pentathlon was in progress outside). It's a good read, I got through the wh=
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thing during the flight back to England.</DIV>
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<DIV>It is of course quite possible that the 1881 bells were sent back (and=
not=20
replaced) as foghorns had come in by the 1890's (a significant example bein=
g the=20
adaption of the fiendish Diaphone stop invented by Robert Hope-Jones for th=
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organ). As can be seen from some of these TH bells now floating around (no =
pun=20
intended), these marine bells take some punishment from their external hamm=
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and the ironwork suffers terribly - the fourteen years in question wou=
ld=20
have been quite long enough for both bells and ironwork ro suffer, as =
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have noted on a number of not very old TH bells which Keltek sensibly did n=
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buy.</DIV>
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<DIV>DLC </DIV>
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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title=3Dmatthewhigby@a...>matthewhigby@a...</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> Saturday, September 04, 2004=
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PM</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bell Historians] Edd=
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lighthouse</DIV>
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<DIV>My brother gave me a surprisingly interesting book the other day - T=
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Lighthouse Stevensons by Bella Bathhurst. ISBN 0 00 257006 8 (Publis=
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in 1999).</DIV>
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<DIV>There is a lot of information about the building of the first Eddyst=
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lighthouse (Now on plymouth hoe) as well as information on the Skerryvore=
,=20
Bell Rock (including a cross section drawing showing bells) and=
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several others. I am told that there is also a large bell on the=20
breakwater lighthouse at Plymouth.</DIV>
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<DIV>There are (or were) bells at Skerryvore and also Dublin=20
Lighthouses.</DIV>
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<DIV>There is a lot of info on the Eddystone lighthouse at: <A=20
href=3D"http://www.btinternet.com/~k.trethewey/eddyvisit.htm">http://www.=
btinternet.com/~k.trethewey/eddyvisit.htm</A></DIV>
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<DIV>Matthew</DIV>
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<DIV>DLC writes:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I recall raising this subject earlier =
- but not=20
where I raised it. Perhaps not on this site and therefore privately.=20
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I wonder if the bells cast into the Cr=
oydon=20
ones were the bells of the Smeaton light - assuming it had any. The not=
e=20
says "some" of the metal came from Eddystone, while there was anough in=
the=20
83-cwt of metal hung in the 1882 light to cast the whole Croydon=20
chime.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Not only are there the G&B ad=
verts,=20
there is also a painting/engraving of one of the bells being raise=
d=20
into position, and another of the light with the two bells clearly visi=
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below the gallery. Richard Bowden drew my attention to these.</FONT></D=
IV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>The bells no longer hang there; even i=
f they=20
did they would sooner or later be superseded by electronic devices as i=
s=20
progressively happening with most Trinity House and Gas Accumulato=
r Co=20
bells. Getting them down must have been as difficult as putting them up=
- on=20
the other hand, 2 tons is as nothing considering the size of some of th=
e=20
materials sent out to the rock.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial lang=3D0 size=3D2 PTSIZE=3D"10" FAMILY=3D"SANSSER=
IF">Matthew=20
Higby & Co Ltd,<BR>Church Bell Engineers.<BR>Jasmine Cottage,<BR>The=
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Street,<BR>Chilcompton,<BR>Bath,<BR>BA3 4HN.</FONT></DIV></FONT><BR></BOD=
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