<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt">In the interests of historical accuracy, I was being fairly speculative about St. John the Divine, Fairfield; it's just that the dates matched and I knew that the Fairfield bell had been sold! Permission to climb the tower was refused when I asked in 1997. There had been a lot of talk of the spire being unsafe and it narrowly escaped demolition a few years ago. The then churchwarden said that the "bell's housing" was still in place. See <span><a target="_blank" href="http://fairfieldspire.co.uk/#">http://fairfieldspire.co.uk/#</a></span><br><br>Bryan McCahey<br><div><br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><div style="padding-left: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 5px; border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size:
12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Chris Pickford <c.j.pickford.t21@btinternet.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Mon, April 11, 2011 7:01:08 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Bell Historians] H & T Jones 46 Duke Street Liverpool<br></font><br>
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</p><div><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">Have been following this one for a
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Bell owned by
Oswestry dealer inscribed </span><span lang="EN-GB">waist (<i>Royal Arms</i>) / E
& T JONES / 46 DUKE STREET / LIVERPOOL Soundbow: 1853 (full inscription not
visible from photo). Diameter 17”. Peg argent cut off. (</span><span class="si"><span lang="EN-GB"><em>Ex.inf.</em></span></span><span class="si"><span style="font-style: normal;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">David Kelly, 13 January 2010)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">E. &
T. Jones, brassfounders, 46 Duke Street
listed in 1855 Directory (web search); There is only one Jones listed as a
brassfounder and that is Edward Jones & Co of 46 Duke Street, Liverpool.
This entry is in the Directory for 1851 and 1855 - we don’t have an 1853 copy
(</span><span class="si"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><em>Ex.inf.</em></span></span><span class="si"><span style="font-style: normal; color: black;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Liverpool Record Office)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Same bell
later appeared on eBay in ownership of Cannock dealer (UK Architectural Antiques
Ltd) priced at £1800. Photos show inscription exactly as above. Diameter 17”,
weight 55kg (1-0-9¼) (eBay, August 2010)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="2">Bryan McCahey thinks it could possibly have
come from <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">St. John the Divine, Fairfield ,
Liverpool was built 1851-53. The framing
survives, but the bell was apparently sold in
1980</span></font></font></span></p>
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