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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>That explains it then!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>AAJB</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, January 16, 2010 11:11
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bell Historians] Fire at
Sheering, Essex</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Alan,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>No Quarters because the bells are hung
dead!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>DS</FONT></DIV>
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title=aaj.buswell@VJD_KcQj0KlBFNq8etqQ4H59fMKrRlWen8jC0PFkuUUr7NeZ0YMPMSetkPPN2onMbfr1_7TGJGSxHeDeTc1xsRX-xKn4CyQAHg.yahoo.invalid
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, January 16, 2010 10:27
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bell Historians] Fire at
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Glad to hear the bells are ok. No quarter peals
rung here.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>But, does any one know the frequency of church
fires over the years? It may show some alarming figures. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>AAJB.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, January 15, 2010 5:36
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Bells are OK, but much smoke and water
damage to church.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>DS</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, January 15, 2010 1:16
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this?<O></O></SPAN></FONT></P>
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href="http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/efnews/4846841.SHEERING__Church_life_will_go_on_despite_blaze_vows_vicar/">http://www.guardian<WBR>-series.co.<WBR>uk/news/efnews/<WBR>4846841.SHEERING<WBR>__Church_<WBR>life_will_<WBR>go_on_despite_<WBR>blaze_vows_<WBR>vicar/</A><O></O></SPAN></FONT></P>
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href="mailto:bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com">bellhistorians@<WBR>yahoogroups.<WBR>com</A>
[mailto:bellhistori<WBR>ans@yahoogroups.<WBR>com] <B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of </SPAN></B>Robert
Lewis<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Friday 15
January 2010 10:47<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B>
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Historians] Fire at Sheering, <ST1>Essex</ST1></SPAN></FONT><SPAN
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<P><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Does anyone have details of the fire damage at
Sheering, <ST1>Essex</ST1> <BR>reported briefly with a picture in this
week's Church Times (p.4).<BR><BR>The Church's website has nothing about
it yet, but says this about the bells:<BR><BR>"There are four bells in
the bell tower. The first and third are by <BR>Miles Graye 1619; the
second is probably by William Wightman dated <BR>1682 and the fourth
probably by Richard Keene 1702. The bells were <BR>not heard for about
thirty years as the tower was considered unsafe <BR>for change ringing,
but in 1998 they were repaired and re-hung by the <BR>Whitechapel Bell
Foundry with a chiming mechanism, as part of our <BR>year 2000
preparations.<WBR>"<BR><BR>RAL<O></O></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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