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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>There is a story that Bill Theobald was no=
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pleased at having to make up Hastings stays and wood stops for=20
the surviving radius slides. It may be apocryphal but made a good stor=
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when by Harry Parkes</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 title=3Dc.j.pickford.t21@b...=20
href=3D"mailto:c.j.pickford.t21@b...">CHRIS PICKFORD</A> </DIV>
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title=3Dbellhistorians@yahoogroups.com=20
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<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, March 24, 2005 1:5=
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AM</DIV>
<DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Bell Historians] Re: Cly=
st St=20
George</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>The old bells were rehung in an H frame =
(still=20
there) by Taylors in 1937. As restored, they were:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>1. Warner 1862 27" 4-0-14</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>2. Warner 1859 28.125" 4-1-9</FONT></DIV=
>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>3. Warner 1888 29" 4-0-11</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>4. Warner 1862 32.125" 5-3-1</FONT></DIV=
>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>5. i b of Exeter, C15th 35.75" 8-0-4</FO=
NT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>6. Warner 1864 40" 11-1-11 (it weighed 1=
2-1-13 as=20
supplied in 1864)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>After the War, the bells were recast by =
M&S=20
who reused five of the stocks (providing a new stock for the fifth) and T=
aylor=20
frame, supplying new wheels, clappers, stays and ball bearings etc. The n=
ew=20
bells are 4-1-18, 4-2-12, 5-1-18, 6-0-13, 7-3-22, 10-2-21 in A flat (I do=
n't=20
have diameters)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Clyst St George was, of course, where th=
e Rev.=20
H.T. Ellacombe was incumbent in his later years.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I worked in the tower with Arthur Fidler=
in 1972=20
- my student summer vacation job - when he overhauled the clappers and=20
bearings. But I've never rung there!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>CP</FONT></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>