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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Can offer these snippets from the sources
noted:</FONT></DIV>
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lang=EN-GB style="LETTER-SPACING: -0.15pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Article
by William Shepherd in </SPAN><I><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="LETTER-SPACING: -0.15pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt">Ringing
World</SPAN></I><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="LETTER-SPACING: -0.15pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt"> </SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="LETTER-SPACING: -0.15pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">1 May
1953 p.286 – bells all dated 1911, but not installed until March 1913. Bells had
been on display at the Festival of Empire at <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Crystal</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Palace</st1:PlaceName> in 1911, where they were played by well-known
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:City> ringer
Fred Newman. Intended to be sent to <st1:country-region
w:st="on">India</st1:country-region> for the Durbar, but this arrangement was
cancelled and the bells were conveyed instead to the <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Olympia</st1:place></st1:City> where they played
a part in Max Reinhart’s famous spectacle, ‘The Miracle’. Warners had many
offers for them (including one from a nobleman who wanted them for his mansion
in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Scotland</st1:place></st1:country-region>), but Warners stuck to their
original offer of first refusal on them to Oatlands. All inscribed “Cast in the
first year of the reign of King George V. 1911”. The tenor is 12-0-12 in
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lang=EN-GB style="LETTER-SPACING: -0.15pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Report of
dedication in </SPAN><I><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="LETTER-SPACING: -0.15pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt">Ringing
World</SPAN></I><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="LETTER-SPACING: -0.15pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 7.0pt"> </SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-GB style="LETTER-SPACING: -0.15pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">7 March
1913 p.168 – bells cast in 1911 and dedicated on 2 March
1913<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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is in the eastern side of Weybridge. Ring of eight in a tower built in 1911.
Bells cast by Warners for the celebration of the Durbar of 1911 in
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>, but the event was cancelled
owing to the death of King Edward VII. The bells were exhibited at the Empire
Festival at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Crystal</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Palace</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> and, when the original commission
fell through, Oatlands was given the first refusal on the bells. They were
dedicated on 2 March 1913 (Morgan and Schupke <I>Towers and Bells Around
Guildford</I> (1999) p.54 and notices in the tower)</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I haven't tried the <EM>Bell News</EM> CD, but it
would be worth looking for a report. The 1953 article would also be worth a
closer look (I've only summarised the details here)</FONT></DIV>
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