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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">Several things in Sue's
posting:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">Bells filled with ale: This is said to
have happened at Hatton, Warwicks, when the six new bells arrived in
1809</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">Harts of Brinkley: The VCH repeats the
claim that they were bellfounders, but they were bellhangers. There is a printed
list of their work, produced in about 1850, listing various jobs in Cambs,
Essex, Suffolk and Herts in the period 1820-1850. I've mentioned them in a
forthcoming article for the "What's up that Tower?" series</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">Early peals of Doubles: So far as I can
recall, the earliest known peal of Doubles was rung at East Haddon on 31
December 1756, and the <EM>Northampton Mercury</EM> certainly records several
others in that area in the later C18th (all in <EM>Order and Disorder</EM> - the
Wratten newspaper collection - of course). There may be earlier ones - can't say
I've made a thorough search</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">In haste (E&OE)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">CP</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>