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<DIV><BR><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D3> Richard Offen writes=
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<DIV><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D3>Probably not on this occasion,=
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should have seen the pair of <BR>us struggling, many years ago, to get the=
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future treble for Preston-<BR>next-Wingham (ex-Burham treble) into the back=
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Ford van I'd <BR>borrowed and up the steps into the vestry of DLC's church =
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Dover! <BR>It was an extremely wet and stormy night and I seem =
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remember the <BR>reverend gent uttering some most unclergymanlike oaths abo=
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the <BR>design of Ford 5 cwt vans and vestry steps!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>This reminded me of the time when Lis Bowden took the solid iron heads=
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from the seventh bell at Pip & J. Bristol, to Eyre & Smith for a ne=
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gudgon to be fitted.</DIV>
<DIV>We loaded the headstock, weighing over 20 stone according to bathroom=
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scales, into the rear of her Mini car and she drove, at night, up the M5 wi=
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the lights shining into the sky, not on the road! So she said.</DIV>
<DIV>Dennis Powney.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>