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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Modesty being one of my virtues, I almost hesitate
to say that the best article on tubular bells which has been published in recent
years was entitled "Strange Noises from the Belfry" and is to be
found</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2> in the Christmas Edition of <EM>The
Ringing World, </EM>No.4730/31, pp 1260-63, 21/28 December 2001. It is
illustrated <EM>inter alia</EM> with scan of the cover of one of their
catalogues, which gives The Butts as their address.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Howard's email states "After 1909 until
<EM>c.</EM>1925 Harrington & Latham</FONT> <FONT face=Arial
size=2><EM>(sic) </EM>were at the Tube Chime Works, 4 Fleet Street Coventry".
Not "until <EM>c.</EM>1925" I think. I have Xeroxes of the correspondence
between the firm, which by then was styling itself HARRINGTON,
HOLLAND & CO, and the then Vicar of St Alphege, Seasalter,
Kent, regarding the installation of the eight tubular chimes there in 1920.
By that time the sole proprietors were Joseph W. Holland and A. Holland. Mr
Latham seems to have disappeared but the original Harrington name was presumably
retained for commercial reasons. The office address given is 164 Earlsdon
Avenue, Coventry, and their works as White Friars Street. The earliest
testimonial sent in conection with the Seasalter job is dated 1914 and addressed
to "Messrs Harrington, Latham & Co., Earlsdon, Coventry." The rest are
all of 1919 and addressed to "Harrington, Holland & Co.,
Coventry."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Their telegraphic address was "Cradle,
Coventry" which presumably alludes to the name of John Harrigton's first
premises, which Howard interestingly gives, the Enamel & Cradle Spring
Works, The Butts.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'd like to learn more about John Harrington, the
late Mr Latham, and Joseph W. and A Holland who carried on the works - and
when they actually ceased production. I give the last date as <EM>c.</EM>1925,
when they put up an octave at Christ Church, Luton, Chatham, now scrapped. Are
there any later ones than can be positively dated; indeed, when is the
earliest?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sorry to hear of Richard's troubles with the
tubulars at Swan Bells. They ought not to have "scaffolding poles" type
sounds: the intonation ought to be quite soft as they are struck, or ought to
be, by lignum-vitae plugs in the hammer heads. Richard will remember the quaint
plonking sounds which emanated from the tower of St Alphege, Seasalter:
he successfully interceded forty years ago for my release from my father's
shop in order to show him the things. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>DLC </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Hi Mike, I have the adress of John Harrington between 1884 -1909 as
Enamel & Cradle Spring Works, The Butts, Coventry. After 1909 and up to
c1925 Harrington & Latham were at the Tube Chime Works, 4 Fleet Street,
Coventry. - Howard E.J.Smith</DIV></FONT>
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