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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Oh yes. I have been there whilst chaplaini=
ng a=20
Church Lads & Church Girls Brigade camp and have eyed the bells. A most=
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extraordinary place. Too cramped for photos, but the four Bolee bells hung =
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balanced swinging. They are fine sounding bells, too. A kindly monk gave me=
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print of the bells when they were hung on the ground (? for dedication) - i=
f I=20
can find it, I'll scan it through.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Just remembered - it wasn't a kindly monk =
at all,=20
it was Ron Dove, about 1992.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>As for Bollee, there a vast quantities of =
their=20
bells in France. There was a good article on their work in Actes des =
1eres=20
Journees Nationales de Campanologie held at Chalons-sur-Marne, France, 31st=
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August-1st September 1989 (published by les Amis du Carillon de=20
Chalons-sur-Marne, June 1992, ISBN 2-9506811-0-7). The Chalons carillon is =
one=20
of their principal works. In another even more recent and very substa=
ntial=20
and well-illustrated brochure published for the celebrations of 500 ye=
ars=20
of a carillon in Mechelen (1998) and entitled Vijf eeuwen klokkenkunst te=20
Mechelen - whose exposition I attended - there is an advertisement:</FONT><=
/DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>De Pere en Fils depuis 1715</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Dominique Bollee</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Fonderies de Clockes d'Orleans</FONT></DIV=
>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>F-45800 Saint Jean-de-Braye</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Orleans</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Tel 33 238 862947</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>There are three photographs - one of the b=
ourdon of=20
Chartre (Indre) surrounded by four generations of Bollees, one of an assmbl=
ed=20
mould (very much the sort of thing that Cornille-Havard use/used), and one =
of a=20
highly ornate bell being lifted from the pit. The advert goes on to say=20
that the firm "s'est specialisee au moulage et a la coulee 'sur place'=
de=20
plusieurs cloches d'un poids minimum de 1200 kg et d'un poids maximum de 21=
00=20
kg."</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>The advertisement (two pages) is one =
of=20
many - including in their company John Taylor Bellfounders and The=20
Whitechapel Bell Foundry Ltd!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>The brochure in an excellent read; if it i=
s still=20
in print (there is no ISBN) one can probably obtain it - or information how=
to=20
get it - from the Royal Carillon School 'Jef Denyn' in Mechelen,=20
Belgium.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>DLC</FONT> </DIV>
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title=3Ddickon.love@a...>LOVE, Dickon</A> </DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A=20
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title=3Dbellhistorians@yahoogroups.com>bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com</A>=
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, March 16, 2005 3:=
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PM</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Bell Historians] Re:=
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Abbey</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><TT>ADH<BR>> isn't Kent near France, perhaps Dickon cou=
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leave G&J alone<BR>> and chase these instead!!!<BR><BR>Too near! M=
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you, there is a certain attraction in the prospect of going<BR>through so=
me=20
foundry records that neither Cawley nor Pickford have eyed! (or<BR>have I=
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soon?)<BR><BR>DrL<BR><BR><BR>____________________________________________=
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