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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Hearing Jim's account of course reminds me=
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another ring which survived the blitz - namely the Temple Church bells, Bri=
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which were taken down the summer after the blitz. (and are now in Bristol=20
Cathedral). The 1887 Taylor High-A frame is still in the tower. See my arti=
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in the Chredition of the RW.</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:jim@p..."=20
title=3Djim@p...>jim phillips</A> </DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A=20
href=3D"mailto:bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com"=20
title=3Dbellhistorians@yahoogroups.com>Bell Historians</A> </DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, January 21, 2005 10:=
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PM</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Bell Historians]=20
Southwark.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><TT>DLC wrote:-<BR>>St Andrew, Plymouth, I believe, rem=
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in the undamaged tower - the <BR>>church being gutted.<BR><BR>They did=
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indeed and had a remarkable escape. I rang there with Tom Myers <BR=
>and=20
his dad G Harry Myers when the church was just a roofless shell with <BR>=
only=20
the outside walls remaining. Tom told me that on the night of 21st=
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<BR>March 1941 there was the most ferocious attack on Plymouth which foll=
owed=20
<BR>one the previous night in which the church had been damaged. &nb=
sp;=20
When the fire <BR>brigade reached the church it was well ablaze and they=
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realised they could <BR>not save it. However, across the rear of th=
e=20
church, where it met the base <BR>of the tower, there hung a heavy dossal=
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curtain to keep the drafts out. The <BR>fireman played their hoses =
on=20
this curtain in a determined effort to save <BR>the tower and when the cu=
rtain=20
finally went due to the intense heat, the <BR>fireman then played the hos=
es on=20
to the wooden bell hole cover in the stone <BR>vaulting at the base of th=
e=20
tower. Fortunately the medieval craftsman who <BR>built the tower h=
ad=20
constructed a stone vault at its base where it entered <BR>the church, an=
d=20
also had made the tower louvres of stone and close together. <BR>The morn=
ing=20
after the raid Tom and his dad went up to the belfry and found <BR>all th=
e=20
louvres blocked up with burnt wood and ashes. St Andrew's was the=20
<BR>mother church of Plymouth and meant a lot to the residents of that=20
city.<BR><BR><BR>>There is a photograph of the new 1911 tenor (then=20
50-0-21<BR><BR>I was told that after the war the bell was tuned from B to=
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B-flat in order <BR>to compete with St Paul's. Is this correct?=20
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