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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you all for the detailed information
submitted on the Rudhall ring at Oldham.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, September 09, 2008 2:35
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bell Historians] St Mary's
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Pleased to see this detailed information from
Derek, as I was just about to have a rummage in my files for the details.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Nothing to add on the main details, except that
the diameters of the two Rudhall bells were St.James (31.25") and St.Peter
(36"). The tenor (i.e. the Newton Heath bell) would have been about
41"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I can offer a snippet regarding the old tenor and
Newton Heath. </FONT><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">The present bell at
Newton Heath is by C. & G. Mears, 1854 - weight 11-2-15. The Whitechapel
records indicate that the previous bell weighed 12-1-16. This
was </SPAN>almost certainly<SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> the old tenor
from Oldham (by Rudhall 1722) sold to Newton Heath in 1827 and recast in 1854.
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<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">The eight bells (tenor
16-2-16) cast by William Dobson for Newton Heath in 1818 were sold to
St.Luke’s, Liverpool in about 1825 (having been advertised for sale in the
<I>Manchester Mercury</I> in Feb/March 1825) and hung by George Gillebrand in
1828. The story is told in Bryan McGahey's "Peace and Good
Neighbourhood"<WBR>.</SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>CP</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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