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<div>When we removed the old Chilcompton bells in 2000, I remember the 5th, tenor and treble stays looking as if they were original (the 1895 rehang).</div>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 3px">At least one of the stays at Beccles is one of the originals (August 1909). Strangely enough, the tenor stay is not original. It does make me wonder who was incompetent enough to break a stay on a 25cwt. bell!<br>
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JBP<br>
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<div>At least one of the stays at Beccles is one of the originals (August 1909). Strangely enough, the tenor stay is not original. It does make me wonder who was incompetent enough to break a stay on a 25cwt. bell!<br>
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JBP<br>
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> From: Sue Marsden <<A href="mailto:erincaters%40googlemail.com">erincaters@8mT0K5uw4HVOY-A3VhtGRZdNADhuvJTkDrLWyjbSDZuWoIrGk161BoAbAnR4ZmM8Ho16fBApKo4QmN1LziPO.yahoo.invalid</A>><br>
> Subject: [Bell Historians] Stays<br>
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> We have just had to replace our tenor<br>
> stay which, athough not actually<br>
> broken, had become cracked. We think this stay is the one<br>
> Taylors<br>
> fitted when they rehung the bells. I must admit we are<br>
> quite<br>
> disappointed at the length of its life .........<br>
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> Can anyone come up with a stay which has seen longer (and in regular use) service?<br>
> Sue Marsden<br>
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