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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>The bells still hung in the hald tower whi=
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survived until the Royal Engineers pulled it down. They were recovered from=
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rubble except the tenor which went exactly as David said. The new church wa=
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designed with a tower which was never built. 1-8 and the remains of the ten=
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were indeed scrapped and the ninth rehung for electrical chiming on th=
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tripod thingy by John Taylor & Co</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<A title=3Ddavidbryant@h...=20
href=3D"mailto:davidbryant@h...">David Bryant</A> </DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A=20
title=3Dbellhistorians@yahoogroups.com=20
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, March 21, 2005 6:22=
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PM</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bell Historians] St=
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Sidwell, Exeter</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>John Oldham, of John Taylor & Co, wr=
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Aubrey Bennett of Buckfastleigh on the subject of St Sidwell, Exeter,&nbs=
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5th January 1943, added:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#ff0000 size=3D2>What's he say about St S=
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then. All I know of their fate is that the 9th is now hung dead in a trip=
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thingy at the east end of the new church (I've seen it several times - ca=
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seem to be off - who hung it there?), and the tenor was recovered from th=
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rubble by the demolition contractor who secretly broke it up and sol=
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as scrap, an act for which he was taken to court. Rumour has it that the =
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eight were scrapped.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#ff0000 size=3D2>The post-war church was =
a few years=20
ago converted into flats and a cafe, with part remaining as a=20
chapel.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#ff0000 size=3D2>David</FONT></DIV><BR></=
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