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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=588431815-14042008>Why do they
sound so good?</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=588431815-14042008>I thought I
knew exactly what to expect from a 3/4 Tn 1873 Whitechapel
8.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=588431815-14042008>Wrong, they
are very good.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=588431815-14042008></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT><FONT size=2><SPAN class=588431815-14042008>Is
anything known, were they some sort of experiment, tuned by someone different,
cast by someone else under contract or what</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT
size=2>?<SPAN class=588431815-14042008> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=588431815-14042008> </SPAN></FONT><FONT><FONT size=2><SPAN
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=588431815-14042008>NBR </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT><SPAN class=588431815-14042008></SPAN><FONT face=Arial><FONT
size=2><SPAN class=588431815-14042008> " </SPAN>Denbigh, Clwyd<BR>S
Mary<BR>Bell Weight Nominal Note Diameter Cast Founder Canons<BR>1 4-2-10
F 27.00 " 1873 Mears & Stainbank Y<BR>2 4-2-26 E 27.56 " 1873 Mears
& Stainbank Y<BR>3 5-1-23 D 29.75 " 1873 Mears & Stainbank Y<BR>4
6-2-1 C 32.00 " 1873 Mears & Stainbank Y<BR>5 7-1-2 Bb 34.25 "
1873 Mears & Stainbank Y<BR>6 8-2-3 A 36.25 " 1873 Mears &
Stainbank Y<BR>7 10-0-11 G 39.50 " 1873 Mears & Stainbank Y<BR>8
14-2-11 F 43.94 " 1873 Mears & Stainbank Y<BR>Source: Chris Pickford
(WBF 1873 data); Tim Jackson</FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>Contributed by: John Baldwin<BR>Last updated:
13/04/2008 <SPAN
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have been told that they are on offer for
£22,000.<BR>The funds raised after removal costs and making good would be about
£5,000.<SPAN class=588431815-14042008> </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=588431815-14042008>That's not even the
cost of one new bell. </SPAN><BR>The cost of installing a similar new peal
of bells would be around £150,000 </FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>These bells are of interest being
possibly the best toned Victorian ring <SPAN
class=588431815-14042008> of this weight </SPAN>to come out of
Whitechapel<SPAN class=588431815-14042008>.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=588431815-14042008> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The tower and bells were designed and built to
complement each other all being designed at the same time.<BR>Tower foundation
stone 6 July 1871, bells cast 1873, church consecrated 7 December 1875, although
complete December 1874.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bell installations are usually compromised by
having to fit bells into an early tower not designed for them.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The unity of design so very well exercised has
produced to my mind a unique example of Victorian excellence.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It is shocking to find that a chiming apparatus was
fitted, probably before the 1914/18 war which has prevented these bells from
being rung, full circle to produce the sound of ringing, which is part of
the heritage of these lands.<BR>In place the town has had the sound of a crude
chiming device, which produces a thin poor tone reminiscent of continental
bells.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The excellence of the engineering results in the
bells still being capable of ringing as intended and capable of being restored
to a condition of being regularly rung for fairly modest expense<SPAN
class=588431815-14042008>, despite 100 years of neglect</SPAN>.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2>I hope that this asset is not destroyed for
such a small financial gain.<SPAN
class=588431815-14042008> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=588431815-14042008></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=588431815-14042008>I have taken
recordings inside and outside and provided they are o/k, can be made
available. </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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