<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br>--- On Sat, 5/3/11, John Harrison <john@UKcKGyUpWGp4Uq9HkV-gEkuhRBycnVeMwyMmBAmZ-7ZK8d666fweAZHn84yfbiv4LtGfq4zX_-r5eq0_.yahoo.invalid> wrote:<br><br>> Bells filled with ale ... may have happened elsewhere. <br><br>I came across a reference to it somewhere in Oxon/Berks, but can't remember<br>where.<br><br>John Harrison<br><br><br>It's Blewbury. The 7th was cast by Edward Read 1752 . When it returned from Aldbourne in 1753 it was dedicated by being "set upside down in a hole in front of the School and filled with beer, and many of the company were exceedingly intoxicated therewith"<br><br>Sharpe Church Bells of Berkshire page 37.<br><br>David<br></td></tr></table><br>