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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">I saw this bell in the tower on 31
May 1971. I was travelling from Leicester with Andrew Wilby to a ringers'
get-together at <EM>chez</EM> David Wilford at Hilton, near Burton. Driving past
the church - which had already been partially demolished - we found that the
site was more or less unprotected and saw that the tower door was open. No
H&S in those days! We climbed up the steps to the bell chamber, where we
found someone else up there already - clearly not working for the demolition
contractor as it was a Sunday afternoon on a Bank Holiday weekend! He
offered to sell us the bell for some ridiculously cheap price</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">At the time I noted: </FONT><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'" lang=EN-GB>“At the church of the
Holy Trinity, <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City
w:st="on">Burton</st1:City>, which was being demolished, there was a large
single bell cast by <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Taylors</st1:City></st1:place> in 1887 weighing 40-0-26. It was fitted
with TW/EH/PG/PB/ECA. It had not been swung for many years, and its sale is now
imminent”. </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"
lang=EN-GB><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><FONT size=2>I later saw the bell
</FONT></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'" lang=EN-GB>(marked 40-0-5 in
chalk) in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Taylors</st1:City></st1:place>’ foundry at Loughborough, on 28 June
1972. </SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'" lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"
lang=EN-GB></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'" lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'" lang=EN-GB>The previous Holy
Trinity bell (Taylor 1869) later became the tenor as Goole, as already
noted.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'" lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"
lang=EN-GB></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'" lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'" lang=EN-GB>There is a
contemporary account of the spire and bell: </SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'" lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'" lang=EN-GB><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"
lang=EN-GB>The handsome spire of this church has now been completed. It cost
£1000; and is the gift of a parishioner. A magnificent bell, weighing 42 cwt,
has been placed in the tower. The entire cost (£300) was collected by a
committee of working men, resident in the town of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Burton</st1:City></st1:place> and neighbourhood (<I>Lichfield Diocesan
Church Calendar</I> 1888 “record of the Diocese 1887”
p.151)</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'" lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"
lang=EN-GB></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'" lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'" lang=EN-GB>Another story about
this bell concerns Ron Dove, who worked at one of the Burton breweries in the
1920s. I think it concerns this bell (not completely sure as I don't know
whether Holy Trinity had a clock), but certainly a large bell in
Burton. Being over 2 tons, the Holy Trinity bell was in the Great Bells
list in earlier editions of Dove. I once asked him about it, and he said "I
remember that bell. I was 'nesting' with a redhead in a house nearby, and when
the clock struck 2 I thought I had better leave. I rushed out, and it was
only when I got home I realised I'd left my bicycle
behind"</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'" lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"
lang=EN-GB></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'" lang=EN-GB><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"
lang=EN-GB>CP</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>