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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>David may be right about the ringing tradi=
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persisting longer in the country than in the towns and cities, but two thin=
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>1. You'd be surprised (by today's standard=
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used to be rung! There are late nineteenth century photographs of the bells=
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Elstow (Beds) with a beaten up old frame and all sorts of old fittings -&nb=
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least one peal was rung on them in that condition</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>2. The sorts of installation you describe =
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exist from the mid nineteenth century, but they weren't the norm. They need=
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be placed in context</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>CP</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>