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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">Brian Meldon notes "<FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman">old bell wheels at Canewdon have the garter holes at the
12 o-clock position when the bells are down"</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">A short handstroke, yes - but what you
had at Canewdon is a set of bells hung for deadrope ringing. Not the same thing
as the sort of short handstroke under discussion. Deadrope ringing has, though,
been mostly forgotten about as a now obsolete style of bellhanging / ringing of
which not-too-many examples now survive</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">CP</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>