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<div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>For any information??<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>G<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> David Knight [mailto:david.knight@churchofengland.org] <br><b>Sent:</b> 24 March 2014 14:32<br><b>To:</b> 'George Dawson'; 'John Baldwin'<br><b>Subject:</b> FW: Enquiry from the Embassy of Finland in London<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Do either of you know anything about the bells described below?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>David<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><br><b>Subject:</b> Enquiry from the Embassy of Finland in London<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hi everyone,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span style='color:#1F497D'>We have had an enquiry from the Embassy of Finland, who are trying to trace some Finnish bells in London. They told us:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText>A Finnish historian has contacted us with regards to some old church bells that went missing from a Finnish rural church a very long time ago, ie circa 1700 - 1721. It was the time of the Great Nordic War and the Russian troops had occupied Finland. During the occupation, Russians took everything that was worth taking and it is rumoured that the aforesaid church bells somehow ended up in the UK. Naturally there is no paper trail or any proper photographic evidence of this, but in around 1962 an article appeared in one of the Finnish newspapers that a Finnish woman who was then living in London had seen the church bells before the World War II in a museum she had visited. The article does not mention which museum, only that it was in London.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The church bells belonged to the church in a village called Isokyrö in the western part of Finland near the city Vaasa. Apparently the lady who spotted the bells noticed that in the museum there was a text next to them mentioning 'Storkyrö' which is the Swedish name for Isokyrö - Finland being a bilingual country.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:115%'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Anyone got any ideas? 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