<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>I was told a tale about these bells by an ex London ringer and </DIV>
<DIV>wonder if it is correct . </DIV>
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<DIV>As a result of bomb damage there is crack in the tower which opens</DIV>
<DIV>and closes as the bells ring . A ringer hanging his coat on the peg has</DIV>
<DIV>to ensure that no part of it slides into the crack because , if at the end of the </DIV>
<DIV>last touch the crack has closed , you have to leave your coat there until</DIV>
<DIV>next week !</DIV>
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<DIV>I last rang well before rehanging and several of the bells made trouble</DIV>
<DIV>for each other in making them either drop or go over the balance without</DIV>
<DIV>warning . I assume the rehang fixed all that ?</DIV>
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<DIV>David</DIV>
<DIV>--- On <B>Mon, 11/3/08, John Paul Adams <I><J.Adams@M1FgybugxQ06kp-E7ZNmwkK0_y5bWwGb096TpWgMyBqKQ5smegkKQ-gm4_afGJDO1MeBawXklicUq9I.yahoo.invalid></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid">From: John Paul Adams <J.Adams@M1FgybugxQ06kp-E7ZNmwkK0_y5bWwGb096TpWgMyBqKQ5smegkKQ-gm4_afGJDO1MeBawXklicUq9I.yahoo.invalid><BR>Subject: [Bell Historians] Bishopsgate.<BR>To: bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com<BR>Date: Monday, November 3, 2008, 10:47 AM<BR><BR>
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<DIV>Alan Taylor:<BR><BR>>> I am sure that John Adams would be happy to let anyone interested see the<BR>>> bells. They are rung every Wednesday from 12.30 to 1.10.<BR><BR>Thanks to Alan for keeping everyone informed, I have been away in<BR>Pembrokeshire for the weekend. Alan Hughes did the test last Wednesday,<BR>so we should have the report soon with the full details. Should be no<BR>problem with getting it fixed at Soundweld but it's not going to be an<BR>easy task getting it out of the tower!<BR><BR>As Alan says, if anyone wants to come and look, we ring every Wednesday.<BR>The chalk has been left on the crack so I will try and do some pictures<BR>this week and possibly another sound file.<BR><BR>As to the cause of the crack, we shall probably never know. With such a<BR>small sample of cracked bells, no work has ever been done to find the<BR>cause of cracking, especially in our case where there is no obvious<BR>reason or defect in the
bell.<BR><BR>Cheers,<BR>John.<BR><BR>-- <BR>John Paul Adams, Medical School IT Support Section, Cruciform Building<BR>University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT.<BR>Work: 020-7679-6867. Mobile: 07970-150707. Email: <A href="mailto:J.Adams%40ucl.ac.uk" target=_blank rel=nofollow>J.Adams@ucl. ac.uk</A><BR>WWW: <A href="http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ccaajpa/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>http://www.homepage s.ucl.ac. uk/~ccaajpa/</A><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></td></tr></table><br>