<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Surely Great Peter is still in use. I certainly herd it tolling for evensong when I was in Gloucester in April. </div><div><br></div><div>I assume you meant Queen Camel tenor was the oldest heave change ringing bell?</div><div><br></div><div>R<br><br>Sent from Richard Offen's iPhone</div><div><br>On 10/10/2011, at 11:52 PM, "simon_a_bond" <<a href="mailto:simon.bond.lists@ibY7dxpw9HuqYe--h3J29ea0-ZtkiBxSTTbXWrmSwKAjDfRH8TPwFpRKYKXybcOatThmb3bqQ0rzAojjKPCFzmgfvCWArmw.yahoo.invalid">simon.bond.lists@e2v0RW_zCAVT2O_tLPCysLjuZZhw6P1mvXv41Vgppujz1LEArZv6mBPBMpxqM2GH5gng7FvitJYkBUEdIw.yahoo.invalid</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p>--- In <a href="mailto:bellhistorians%40yahoogroups.com"><a href="mailto:bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com">bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com</a></a>, Sue Marsden <erincaters@...> wrote:<br>
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> bell? Apologies if this has been covered before ir the information is<br>
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I would guess Great Peter at 59-3-14 and c1450 probably ticks this box. Sadly Great Tom in Oxford just misses your criteria (1680) but the 31cwt tenor in the ringing peal was cast in 1589. Queen Camel tenor is perhaps the heaviest bell before 1650 still in use.<br>
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