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<BODY bgColor=#ffffff background=""><FONT face=Arial size=2>By dedication date
(rather than - generally unknown - casting date) the final G&J jobs
were:<BR><BR>24/12/1954
Cranleigh, Surrey (8 - complete new
ring)<BR> <BR>?/?/1955
Wetherden, Suffolk (6 - old bells
rehung)<BR>26/6/1955
Calgary, Canada (3 - new bells, cast at Croydon) later augmented to six and
afterwards to
eight<BR> <BR>6/2/1956
Stoke D'Abernon, Surrey (5 - rehang and
augmentation)<BR>16/3/1956
Goxhill, Lincs (6 - complete new
ring)<BR>8/7/1956
Calgary, Canada (6 - the three new bells actually cast at Loughborough) later
augmented to
eight<BR> <BR>24/2/1957
Addington, Surrey (6 - rehang and
augmentation)<BR>11/8/1957
Calgary, Canada (8 - the two new trebles cast at Loughborough). First rung
8/9/1957<BR><BR>So the answer to Mark's question depends on what you mean!
Calgary being completed in three stages complicates the picture. The last
complete "pure" G&J octave was Cranleigh - but Calgary was still a G&J
job even though five of the bells were cast at Loughborough. Take your pick.
Alternatively, Goxhill was the last complete ring - although only six (not
eight) and also cast at Loughborough. <BR><BR>Robert Lewis might also have
mentioned the article “G&J – the final years from a JT perspective” by
Andrew Higson in <EM>Ringing World</EM> 9 May 2003 pp.435-6 which clarifies the
involvment of Taylors in the later work of the Croydon
firm<BR><BR>CJP</FONT></BODY></HTML>