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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>No Rudhall bells in Kent. The nearest now
must be St.George's, Borough High Street, Southwark, unless any of the Rudhalls'
Sussex jobs are east of that.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Have fairly recently completed putting
details of all known Rudhall bells past and present - correlated against the
catalogues of 1705, 1715, 1751, 1788 and 1804 - into a spreadsheet. Did all this
on paper some 25-30 years ago, but putting it on the computer has enabled me to
update it and also do a better analysis. The spreadsheet produces figures by
date of casting and also by historic county, and can be sorted and edited to
produce lists of various types</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Intend to use some of this information in
the book on Swan Bells (i.e. the old Rudhall bells from St.Martin in the Fields)
shortly, and have longer-term plans for a comparative account of the work of
certain key founders against "national output" in the C18th and C19th. Although
I have spreadsheet lists for many of the founders of this period (including
Whitechapel!) there's still more work to do on some of the provincial founders
before the "big picture" can be fully assessed. On the face of it, a
statistical account of bellfounding from 1700 to 1900 may not sound that
appetizing - but the results and findings are often quite
surprising!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>CP</FONT></DIV>
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