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<DIV></DIV>> > is for Thornborough. I seem to recall seeing an alternative weight of </DIV>
<DIV></DIV>> > 11-0-8 for Thornborough, but I can't remember where.
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<DIV></DIV>>I think that is it quite unlikely that the weight before and after the
<DIV></DIV>>rehanging would be the same. I don't know if it was weighed, but I
<DIV></DIV>>should have thought that this would be likely. There was an article in
<DIV></DIV>>The RW about the rehanging, I wonder if it was quoted here?
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<P>What year was it? I have the RWs to hand and can look - I think it was a front page article.</P>>I bet there are! On the other hand, IIRC, the canons were knocked off
<DIV></DIV>>the 8 at Rugby, bells remaining in the tower, a decade or so ago and
<DIV></DIV>>therefore the tenor weight should be approximate and not exact!
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<P>Lots like that - front six at Southwark discussed on here recently. Ringers like an exact weight rather than an approximate one, and therefore such weights are often perpetuated even when known to be incorrect. On this subject, isn't the tenor weight at Christ Church Oxford one of these?</P>
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