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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, March 03, 2007 2:51
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bell Historians] Gloucester
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<P><BR><WBR><BR><FONT face=Arial>Richard wrote:</FONT><BR>As has so often been
the case, I think you'll find they were retained <BR>because of lack of funds
to do anything else. I also seem to remember <BR>Gilbert Turlow telling me
that the Cathedrals Advisory Committee <BR>desired them to be
retained.<BR><BR><FONT face=Arial>An interesting recollection, but I don't
think it was the CAC but Gilbert himself! 9,10,11 were retained on the grounds
of historic interest. The 8th and the tenor were kept because they were
Gloucester bells. Douglas Hughes told me at the dedication that he wished
they could have recast the tenor "what a poor breathless thing"), but it was
Gilbert's own wish that it should be retained. As Richard says,
and Gilbert also told me, money for the work was not easy to
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<P><FONT face=Arial>Whatever they do to the 11th now, perhaps the opportunity
will present itself to replace the poor weak tenor with something worthy of
the Dean who as Vicar of Yarmouth presided over the installation of
those fine bells.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial>DLC</FONT></P>
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