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<DIV>In a message dated 05/02/2008 17:38:43 GMT Standard Time,
bill@TB-dVSjlh4NyMtECgh18dst0sHjsDwnO-bNUdpe1hXzXuA4caR1ULrnOwcXCQqrx3_UHxvDmys3UNhM.yahoo.invalid writes:</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Georgia color=#000000 size=2>One of
Chris' memorials must be his photographs. They are to be found <BR>in church
guidebooks in the most unexpected places. His photographs of <BR>bells, under
difficult lighting and access conditions, are
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<DIV>Yes they are exceptional and his Church Bells of Dorset will
stand as part of his legacy , perhaps we should also remember his wit , which
sometimes surfaced in his more scholarly enterprises . He was rightly opposed to
what he believed would be inferior work , and in vol.1 of CBOD comes this
comment on a fine Gillett bell hung ( for ringing ) in Bournemouth being sounded
by an Ellacombe and an electrical tolling hammer " If the people of Bournemouth
insist on having their bells sounded without human effort , they would do well
to have them swung , rather than tolled , electrically as is done extensively on
the Continent " . He also had the ability to argue a point successfully with a
one line comment . In the early seventies there was a proposal to replace a
certain ring with a light six . The letter from a foundry finished as
follows " We think that you would like our 2 cwt ring of six " . Read out with
disdain and he added " Oh no we wouldn't Vicar " , and all thoughts of having
this replacement were immediately discarded .</DIV>
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<DIV>Christopher was a one in a generation ringer , and he cannot be
replaced</DIV>
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<DIV>Jim Shepard</DIV>
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<DIV>ps Was it Christopher in a letter many years ago who in reply to a letter
about what the bell at Blandford Town Hall was made of said " It
is no made of cast iron than it is of icing sugar " .
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