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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
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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
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old tenor from Oldham (by Rudhall 1722) sold to Newton Heath in 1827 and recast
in 1854. </SPAN></DIV>
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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".</SPAN></DIV>
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