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<b>Reasons for installing bells</b> (from a local newspaper
editorial, 1863)<br>
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... because the bells will throw their pleasant sounds to a great
distance, charming the ear by their special melody with its
memory-bringing faculty, and leading up to profitable musing and
pleasant thoughts ... We are not campanologically scientific, and so
cannot enlarge on the glories of bell-ringing, but we are as pleased
as other men at the solemn harmonies which these great ministers of
sound awaken<br>
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<b>Reasons for installing a chiming apparatus</b> (from an
advertisement, c.1866)<br>
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... Unmanageable ringers are got rid of.<br>
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Two rather interesting and contrasting Victorian viewpoints, of
similar date - the first bizarrely sentimentalist, the second
delightfully blunt and ruthless!<br>
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