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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bells for Trinidad</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Whitechapel Foundry printed
catalogues:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1880 - No mention found.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1884 - West Indies.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2> Trinidad Catholic
Church 8 bells 13 cwt</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2> Trinidad New
Church 6 bells 16 cwt</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2> Trinidad English
Cathedral 5, to complete set of 8 bells 16cwt</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1890 - To America (!)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2> Trinidad
Cathedral, Port of Spain, 8 bells tenor 16 cwt, total 72 cwt</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2> Trinidad, R. C. 8
bells, tenor 13 cwt, total 56 cwt</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1895 - To Colonies and British
Possessions</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2> 1880 TRINIDAD
CATHEDRAL 8 ... 16 cwt</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2> 1830 Trinidad
Catholic Church </FONT> <FONT face=Arial size=2>8 ... 13
cwt</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2> 1878 Trinidad
Presbyterian Church ... 1 bell, 6 cwt</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1912 - To Colonies and British
Possessions</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2> 1880 TRINIDAD
CATHEDRAL 8 ... 16 cwt</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2> 1830 Trinidad
R.
C. 8
... 13 cwt</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2> 1902
Trinidad, Aruca Church 1 bell, 6 1/4 cwt</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2> 1878
Trinidad, Presbyterian Church 1 bell, 6 cwt</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1919 - As in the 1912 catalogue with addition
of</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> </FONT> <FONT
face=Arial size=2> 1914 Trinidad, St
Mary's 1 bell, 7 1/4
cwt</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>That is the last of their 'everything
in" catalogues - the next one was 1925, which contains nothing more than
"Trinidad Cathedral" among the Cathedrals containing Bells from the
Foundry.</FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Nothing in my copies of Warner, Taylor or G&J
catalogues / brochures.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a feeling that the "New Church" referred to
in the 1884 catalogue is possibly Sir Ralph Woodward's church of 1823; if so the
foundry had not realised this when they supplied five new bells (two new and
three recast) to make the chime of eight in 1880. Most of these dates
are at variance with the GCNA site; so it would be interesting to know ther
source for their dates of 1819 [1] 1871 [1] 1880 [2] and unknown
[4]. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This only partially answers Malcolm's questions -
if at all - but is I hope not entirely devoid of interest.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>DLC</FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, October 25, 2008 9:10
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bell Historians] Trinity
Church bells, Port of Spain, Trinidad.</DIV>
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<P>There's some more information at :-<BR><A
href="http://www.gcna.org/data/TTPORTSP.HTM">http://www.gcna.<WBR>org/data/<WBR>TTPORTSP.<WBR>HTM</A><BR><BR>David<BR><BR>-----
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href="mailto:bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com">bellhistorians@<WBR>yahoogroups.<WBR>com</A>><BR>Sent:
Friday, October 24, 2008 11:26 PM<BR>Subject: [Bell Historians] Trinity Church
bells, Port of Spain, Trinidad.<BR><BR>While I was doing some family history
research at The Society of<BR>Genealogists, I came across the following
intriguing story:<BR><BR>On 23rd May 1823, Sir Ralph Woodford, Governor of
Trinidad attended the<BR>consecration of Trinity Church, Port of Spain,
Trinidad.<BR><BR>The following extract is taken from “The History of the West
Indian Islands<BR>of Trinidad & Tobago 1498 - 1900” by Gertrude
Carmichael<BR><BR>“Woodford was very generous to the new church. He … gave … a
peal of six<BR>bells. The bells he was unable to hear, for though they were
mounted with<BR>wheels and ropes, there was no one in the colony who could
ring… Later a <BR>Mr<BR>Fuller and six others “who felt inclined to learn the
art of ringing” and <BR>who<BR>had gone to the expense of purchasing a set of
sixteen handbells and who “<BR>expected a ringing tutor from England”, came
forward with proposals for <BR>organised<BR>bell-ring. In spite of this
Woodford was destined never to hear his bells<BR>ring, for the great
earthquake of September 20th, 1825, damaged the church <BR>and<BR>the tower
had to be rebuilt, the bells not being rehung for some years.”<BR><BR>1. Do we
know who cast these bells?<BR>2. Who hung them?<BR>3. How the project was
completed without Governor Woodward, or his project<BR>co-ordinator being told
that trained ringers would be required to ring the<BR>bells?<BR>4. Who rehung
the bells years after the earthquake?<BR>5. What happened to these bells. Are
they still there and/or in use?<BR><BR>Malcolm Bland<BR><BR></P></DIV><!--End group email --></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>