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<DIV><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman">My Dad (Old Bristolian) still thin=
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there were bells in situ at Eddystone until at least the 1930's. He claims =
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have a photo in an encyclopedia with a contemporary 1930's ship sailing pas=
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said lighthouse clearly showing one of the bells. I wonder if the pict=
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had been doctored at all, but I'll get him to dig it out and see if it will=
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scan.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman">Nick</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=3Ddcawley@w...=20
href=3D"mailto:dcawley@w...">David Cawley</A> </DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A=20
title=3Dbellhistorians@yahoogroups.com=20
href=3D"mailto:bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com">bellhistorians@yahoogroups=
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, September 04, 2004=
10:10=20
PM</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bell Historians] Edd=
ystone=20
lighthouse</DIV>
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<DIV>"The Lighthouse Stevensons" is indeed a fascinating book. I bought m=
ine=20
after a Quarter at St Mary's Basilica, Sydney in 2000 (we rang it while t=
he=20
Pentathlon was in progress outside). It's a good read, I got through the =
whole=20
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 (a=
nd=20
not replaced) as foghorns had come in by the 1890's (a significant exampl=
e=20
being the adaption of the fiendish Diaphone stop invented by Robert Hope-=
Jones=20
for the organ). As can be seen from some of these TH bells now floating a=
round=20
(no pun intended), these marine bells take some punishment from their ext=
ernal=20
hammers and the ironwork suffers terribly - the fourteen years in=20
question would have been quite long enough for both bells and ironwork ro=
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suffer, as I have noted on a number of not very old TH bells which K=
eltek=20
sensibly did not buy.</DIV>
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<DIV>DLC </DIV>
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<A title=3Dmatthewhigby@a...=20
href=3D"mailto:matthewhigby@a...">matthewhigby@a...</A> </DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A=20
title=3Dbellhistorians@yahoogroups.com=20
href=3D"mailto:bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com">bellhistorians@yahoogrou=
ps.com</A>=20
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, September 04, 20=
04 7:01=20
PM</DIV>
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Eddystone lighthouse</DIV>
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<DIV>My brother gave me a surprisingly interesting book the other day -=
The=20
Lighthouse Stevensons by Bella Bathhurst. ISBN 0 00 257006 8 (Publ=
ished=20
in 1999).</DIV>
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<DIV>There is a lot of information about the building of the first Eddy=
stone=20
lighthouse (Now on plymouth hoe) as well as information on the Skerryvo=
re,=20
Bell Rock (including a cross section drawing showing bells) a=
nd=20
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://ww=
w.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 earlie=
r - but=20
not where I raised it. Perhaps not on this site and therefore private=
ly.=20
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I wonder if the bells cast into the =
Croydon=20
ones were the bells of the Smeaton light - assuming it had any. The n=
ote=20
says "some" of the metal came from Eddystone, while there was anough =
in=20
the 83-cwt of metal hung in the 1882 light to cast the whole Cro=
ydon=20
chime.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Not only are there the G&B =
adverts,=20
there is also a painting/engraving of one of the bells being rai=
sed=20
into position, and another of the light with the two bells clearly vi=
sible=20
below the gallery. Richard Bowden drew my attention to these.</FONT><=
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>The bells no longer hang there; even=
if they=20
did they would sooner or later be superseded by electronic devices as=
is=20
progressively happening with most Trinity House and Gas Accumula=
tor=20
Co bells. Getting them down must have been as difficult as putting th=
em up=20
- on the other hand, 2 tons is as nothing considering the size of som=
e of=20
the materials sent out to the rock.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=3D0 face=3DArial size=3D2 FAMILY=3D"SANSSERIF" PTSIZE=
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Higby & Co Ltd,<BR>Church Bell Engineers.<BR>Jasmine Cottage,<BR>Th=
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Street,<BR>Chilcompton,<BR>Bath,<BR>BA3=20
4HN.</FONT></DIV></FONT><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>