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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>No, Alan - I was still a boy at school then. I was
at Sprowston 1972-75. Good to have your remuiniscences of St Catgherine's where
I was once told off for wearing a coloured stole!</FONT></DIV>
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<P>Hello David,<BR><BR>Probably. :-) One of a number of senior
choir boys. Probably the only one who ever attempted Plain Hunt!
That would have been roughly early 1956 to mid 1957 when I gave up the
choir.<BR><BR>Don't remember a Stanley Plunkett, but there was certainly a
'Plunkett' there. The Rev'd Bell was vicar.<BR><BR>Best
wishes<BR><BR>Alan<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> <BR><BR>David Cawley wrote:<BR>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>St Catherine's: As Alan says, the tower is just
not suitable in plan, elevation or situation to take them as a ring. They
were hung by M&S at St Catherine's when the present church was
built in 1937 after thirty years on the floor of St Mary Coslany following
the removal of the (remains of) the upper stage of that tower.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>St Andrew's: the ropes fall in the order
1-3-2-7-10-5-<WBR>4-6-9-8. The first peal of London Major was rung there,
bad enough without the back eight ropes falling 1-5-8-3-2-4-<WBR>7-6!
Otrher such examples in East Anglia included Beccles and Horham. Both since
rehung. Last ringing at St Andrew's was 1902.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>St George Tombland. Rehung in 1975 in the old
frame, for chiming. I was DAC Adviser on Bells for Norwich at the time and
also the NDA's first Technical Adviser. It was quite by chance that the
money became available simply to hang them 'dead' on the old frame. The
NDA at the time had no significant bell fund, and like St Andrew's the tower
needed extensive work.They are a pleasant sounding minor five, probably
not rung in the last 150 years. </FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Alan: were you the lad who was chiming at Mile
Cross in Stanley Plunkett's time - i.e. when I was curate of
Sprowston?</FONT></DIV>
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