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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There is a whole chapter on this great Bell in
the forthcoming book about Cyril Johnston, "England's Child", by Jill
Johnston. Last I heard this is being published in America at the end
of January 2008 and in the UK in March or April.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>DLC</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, January 30, 2008 1:19
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Bell Historians] Wanamaker
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<P>Further research has unearthed the following (from the Friends of the
<BR>Wanamaker Organ website). It casts some doubt on the supposed first
<BR>casting date for the Wanamaker Bell of 1923 - it reads as if both
<BR>attempts to cast occurred in 1926.<BR><BR>"The ... bell that rings from
the belfry of the PNB-First Union bank <BR>building on North Broad Street and
Penn Square in Philadelphia was <BR>commissioned by Rodman Wanamaker in 1926
as a memorial to his father, <BR>John Wanamaker ... The bell was cast by the
distinguished Gillett and <BR>Johnston foundry in Croydon, England ...
Production delays caused its <BR>dedication to be postponed from the Fourth of
July until New Year's <BR>Eve 1926-27."<BR><BR>Bill H<BR><BR></P></DIV><!--End group email --></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>