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name=_Toc195501224><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><EM><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT color=#000080>The Kentish Express, Ashford.<SPAN
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</SPAN>9 May 1952.<SPAN
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face="Times New Roman"><FONT color=#000080><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></B><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">THE BELLS OF ALL SAINTS </SPAN></B><?xml:namespace prefix
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/><st1:place><st1:City><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">Boughton
Alup</SPAN></B></st1:City><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">,
</SPAN></B><st1:country-region><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">Kent</SPAN></B></st1:country-region></st1:place><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">, which pealed across the countryside for over 400 years,
have been carted off to a </SPAN></B><st1:City><st1:place><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">London</SPAN></B></st1:place></st1:City><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"> scrap heap.
</SPAN></B><st1:country-region><st1:place><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">Kent</SPAN></B></st1:place></st1:country-region><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"> archaeologists say the sale was “a mistake,” and they
are trying to rescue them. </SPAN></B><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">The bells
– five of them, were sold to pay for church repairs. They brought in about £300,
which was, the archaeologists say, fantastic, because the bells are
priceless.</SPAN></B><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">One of them, a 40in called
“The Great </SPAN></B><st1:City><st1:place><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">Bell</SPAN></B></st1:place></st1:City><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"> Gabriel”, was cast just after 1500 and could possibly be
worth £1,000 on its own. All the bells had been hanging in All Saint’s belfry
since 1540.</SPAN></B><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">Permission for the sale
was given by </SPAN></B><st1:City><st1:place><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">Canterbury</SPAN></B></st1:place></st1:City><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"> Diocesan Board of Faculty. Now Canterbury Archaeological
Society have decided to find out if they have been melted down, and if not
whether they can be bought back to ring out once again across the valley of the
Stour.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></FONT></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><o:p><FONT size=2>Any one know what the ourcome
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