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face=Arial size=2>I can offer the following extract from the Croydon foundry
records - although the places aren't specified very closely in the tuning books
(e.g. might just say Wigan - which is what's in Alan Buswell's index) and I may
have associated this set of bells with the wrong church</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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St.Paul, Goose Green, Lancs: Gillett & Johnston foundry records, 1934 –
clock chimes of five bells, 1 (5051) 13</SPAN><SUP><SPAN
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0-2-5 E, 2 (5103) 15.125</SPAN><SPAN
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0-2-24.5 D, 3 (5053) 16.875” 1-0-9 C, 4 (5054) 22.25</SPAN><SPAN
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2-1-16</SPAN><SPAN
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G, 5 (5055) 32” 6-1-17 C</SPAN></DIV>
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face=Arial size=2>However, the Catholic Directory (2003) doesn't list a church
of the Holy Cross in Wigan</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The most notable bell in a Catholic church in Wigan
is at </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>St.Patrick's - a Taylor slow-swinger of
1955, <SPAN
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49-1-27</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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