<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">On 30/05/2013, at 12:41 AM, "David Cawley" <<a href="mailto:davidl.cawley@...">davidl.cawley@...</a>> wrote:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">
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</p><div><font size="2" face="Arial">This is the John S Goldsmith Memorial Bell, which
was presented when the first part of the Cathedral was being built; it was hung
for chiming in the turret at the east end when the Lady Chapel was being
built in the 1960's. Cast at Whitechapel. There is a photograph of it on the
back cover of the Golden Jubilee issue; the inscription reads THIS BELL IS GIVEN
BY THE GUILDFORD / DIOCESAN ASSOCIATION OF CHURCH BELL RINGERS / AS A
MEMORIAL TO THEIR FIRST CHAIRMAN / JOHN SPARKES GOLDSMITH. / WHO DIED 1ST JUNE
1943. This reading is taken from the rather grainy picture so is O&OE and
does not include any Foundry data there will be - no doubt the Whitechapel
Foundry would oblige; and perhaps the Editor can tell us a bit more about
his great predecessor's memorial bell.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">DLC</font></div>
<div><br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">The web site of the Guildford Diocesan Guild says the following:</span><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"The Guild’s biggest challenge, the provision of a ring of bells for the new Cathedral, faced the membership from the early ’30s. A Cathedral Bells Fund was set up in 1933, before construction of the new Cathedral had even started. It received little support for many years but a Sacring bell, cast as a memorial to John S Goldsmith, was hung in the incomplete building in 1947 and a further bell, the ninth of the present ring, provided as a memorial to Alfred H Pulling in 1961."</span></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">R</span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Sent from Richard Offen's iPad</span></div></body></html>