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<DIV><SPAN class=338260618-09042007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Yorkshire Arch. Journal:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=338260618-09042007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>1.
THOMAS DUGDALE JOHN WEBSTER JOHN GUY JOHN TOWNSON
CHURCHWARDENS</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=338260618-09042007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>2.
SERVAVIT ME CUM SERMONE</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=338260618-09042007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>3. IN
DONO CONFIDO 1567</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=338260618-09042007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>No
diameters given.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=338260618-09042007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>As the
third is the same date as the 4th & 5th at Mitton, it is also probably by a
French founder.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=338260618-09042007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>It
would be interesting to know WHEN the 4 churchwardens on the treble were
serving.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=338260618-09042007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>GAD</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com [mailto:bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com] <B>On
Behalf Of </B>Alan Birney<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, April 09, 2007 6:51
PM<BR><B>To:</B> bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Bell
Historians] Slaidburn<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<P>Does anyone have details of the ring at Slaidburn prior to the 1843 T
<BR>Mears II ring of six please?<BR><BR>Local legend has it that a new,
heavier six were installed in the <BR>old lowside frame for six in 1843, but
I'm not so sure. The bells are <BR>certainly tightly packed in on one level,
with bells 2 and six having <BR>a gallow end on their pits, and some
frameheads having gouges cut to <BR>allow bells to swing.<BR><BR>At the time
of the 1927 rehang, the second was recast, canons <BR>removed from the
remaining five bells, and all new fittings apart from <BR>some wheels which
were reused and a slender RSJ fitted under one <BR>foundation beam and the
frame strengthend. More recently, the frame <BR>recieved additional
strengthening by Taylors Eayre & Smith Ltd.<BR><BR>For what they are, they
sound quite grand and go quite well, <BR>remembering that they are quite a
heavy, slow turning six.<BR><BR>Alan<BR><BR></P></DIV><!--End group email --></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>