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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Chris Pickford <c.j.pickford.t21@WPJiaeu-YxbQtiPvwnWPZyiofvhlzCtSlBwNCfmpfeg9oJh_QUt0xUlGto3LlwAWXa7lFzVWcl-JFBqXNWg0j8yhDqZdW68.yahoo.invalid><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Mon, 19 July, 2010 18:14:42<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Bell Historians] Burton Holy Trinity<BR></FONT><BR><SPAN style="DISPLAY: none"> </SPAN>
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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 lang=EN-GB>“At the church of the Holy Trinity, Burton , which was being demolished, there was a large single bell cast by Taylors 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 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 lang=EN-GB>(marked 40-0-5 in chalk) in Taylors ’ foundry at Loughborough, on 28 June 1972. </SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><SPAN lang=EN-GB>The previous Holy Trinity bell (Taylor 1869) later became the tenor as Goole, as already noted.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><SPAN lang=EN-GB>There is a contemporary account of the spire and bell: </SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" 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 Burton and neighbourhood (<I>Lichfield Diocesan Church Calendar</I> 1888 “record of the Diocese 1887” p.151)</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS"><SPAN 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>
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