------=_NextPart_000_0036_01C56231.A6422740 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Apart from the extant 3rd bell (Edington 5th), the remainder were=20 supposed to have been used to provide additional metal for Edington.=20 However Fred Slatford (former SDGR secretary) from North Bradley was=20 visiting the foundry, while Edington's ten were there, and discovered=20 the ex-Imber bells still there as well. Whatever bell-metal was used to=20 cast the Edington bells couldn't have come from Imber, if Fred is=20 correct and he is still adamant this is the case. [Quite probably. It reinforces the point which I made in a letter to the RW= a few weeks ago, that the basic concept of a recast bell is bollocks. Each= one is a new casting, which may or may not include some or all of the meta= l of its predecessor and / or have its predecessor's inscription reproduced= in facsimile or modern lettering.] Incidentally, Edington were second choice as a new home for the=20 bells.The original plan was that they should provide a ring of 6 for St=20 Francis' church in Salisbury, but funds ran out after the tower was=20 completed. Neil Skelton will have more details than I on this plan. [I understand that the intention was to "recast" them (i.e. scrap them and = cast new ones - see above!) and cast a treble to make six.] David ------=_NextPart_000_0036_01C56231.A6422740 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable