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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wind indeed! Thanks, Andrew!!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Three more candidates have occurred to me - all
very good, but perhaps not so well known as some of the others:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1. A.H. Cocks "Buckinghamshire" - surely the very
best of the early county books (rather more thorough and better researched than
Essex in my view), and ahead of its time in presentation of inscriptions,
inclusion of documentary material and coverage of old frames and
fittings</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2. J.R. Nichols "Bells thro' the ages" - a rather
better general work than Walters "Church Bells of England", largely because
Nichols was a ringer and understood ringers and ringing, and also appreciated
the technical aspects of the craft better than HBW</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>3. Bryan McGahey's "Peace and Good Neighbourhood"
about St Luke's, Liverpool - a model of its kind, and one of the very best
"single tower" histories</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>CP</FONT></DIV>
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