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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Richard Grimmett arrranged some rinigng th=
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around that time & battled with a fierce clock hammer !</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Simon</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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href=3D"mailto:andrew.bull@t...">Andrew Bull</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, January 19, 2005 =
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Bell Historians] Old=
bury,=20
West Midlands (was Monkton, Devon)</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#0000ff size=3D2><SPAN class=3D419322409-=
19012005>I=20
believe that the bells were ringable before the conversion took place. I =
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working in the Birmingham area in 1990, and A. J. Barnfield boasted with =
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pride that he had rung there; apparently there was a try-out in the=20
mid-1980s.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#0000ff size=3D2><SPAN=20
class=3D419322409-19012005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#0000ff size=3D2><SPAN=20
class=3D419322409-19012005>Andrew Bull</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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size=3D2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Paul Marshall=20
[mailto:paul&jean@p...]<BR><B>Sent:</B> 18 January 20=
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18:56<BR><B>To:</B> bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [=
Bell=20
Historians] Oldbury, West Midlands (was Monkton,=20
Devon)<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><TT><BR>Does anyone know the fate of the bel=
ls of=20
Christ Church, Oldbury West <BR>Midlands (10.5 cwt)? The church is stil=
l in=20
use (as a church), but the <BR>tower is let out to various companies as=
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offices. As far as I know the <BR>bells are still in the tower, but a=20
concrete floor has been installed <BR>directly beneath them. It is very=
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unlikely that they will ever be rung <BR>again (at least in that=20
tower).<BR><BR>It is one of the rings that is claimed by both the=20
Worcestershire <BR>Association (It is the only unringable tower in the=
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Northern Branch of <BR>that Association) and the St Martin's Guild.<BR>=
<BR>I=20
heard a rumour that the St Martin's Guild had looked into recovering=20
<BR>them.<BR><BR>Paul=20
Marshall<BR></TT></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>______________________________<BR>This =
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