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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Don't think I'm going to spend any more=20
time quoting chapter and verse more than I have. As Richard said earli=
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on, it's a great shame about the old bell and there was very little which c=
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be done - sadly it was never recovered. As stated the two Phelps bells are =
in=20
regular use elsewhere.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>As Richard said about architects.....well =
the one=20
at Burham was the same as the one he mentions in East Kent. Richard will=20
remember that he waxed lyrical about the "wonderful old timbers" which supp=
orted=20
the frame at Mersham, and Harry Parkes was with difficulty dissuaded from=20
telling him that he would personally deliver the b.....s to the architects=
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garden if they were so wonderful, then he could look at them every morning =
when=20
he got up.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>A pity because the gentleman in question i=
s one of=20
the most charming, learned and able men. His record of Canterbury following=
the=20
blitz is remarkable, and he was personally responsible for saving a great d=
eal=20
which would either have been destroyed subsequently or by the iconoclasts o=
f=20
later years.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I have personally been fortunate with=
my=20
Inspecting Architects: at Dover, we had Peter Marsh (also Surveyor to the D=
ean=20
& Chapter of the Cathedral); in Bristol I inherited the excellent firm =
of=20
Oatley & Brentnall, who had designed the church in 1900 / 26 and still =
gave=20
sterling attention to it - when they packed up, we got Philip Mann, an exce=
llent=20
Bristol Architect; and here I have Peter McFarlane, formerly of Bond & =
Read=20
of Grantham, and we could not have better in every respect.</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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m:</B>=20
<A href=3D"mailto:neil.tcct@v..." title=3Dneil.tcct@v...>Neil=
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Skelton</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> Friday, February 25, 2005 11=
:04=20
AM</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Bell Historians] Bixley =
or more=20
to the point Burham</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>So there you have it.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Well not quite!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>The second date in my message (11th July=
, 1981)=20
should have been deleted. Both photograph and rubbing taken on 11th July,=
1980=20
when the de Wymbish bell was on the floor of the old church. DLC's handwr=
itten=20
notes on the Kent Messenger copies showing the bells being removed from t=
he=20
'new' church: "Removing the bells 1981". Further, he says "Part-Medieval =
frame=20
(disintegrated on removal 1981)". Presumably just before demolition of th=
e=20
'new' church? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>The thick plottens!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Neil Skelton.</FONT></DIV><BR></BODY></H=
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