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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 27/04/2016 15:57, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:lauradi@rcn.com">lauradi@rcn.com</a>
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meant to send the query about a clapper to this list. I
didn't mean to send one about theme-park England (that was
supposed to<br>
go to the Ringing chat). I'm really sorry.<br>
Laura Dickerson<br>
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<font face="Times New Roman">But, to someone from Waltham Abbey, it
was quite interesting.<br>
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I'm 6' 5" tall and have long hair and wiry beard, and though it
hasn't happened yet, I keep intending to go to the "King Harold
Day" festival held here every October garbed up as a Viking, with
"Harold and Will's grandad" written on a placard or a badge.<br>
<br>
Things would certainly have been very different, but both the
Peacemaker and the Bastard were descended from 'Nor(se)men' - and
not too many generations back in either case. Maybe the biggest
difference would be an English language with lots of Scandinavian
words in it, rather than French. And we'd all be living in turf
huts.<br>
<br>
It is perhaps curious that the blood of Harold's veins does
continue to flow in many of Europe's leading royal houses, but not
a drop of Tudor blood does.<br>
<br>
As a token of goodwill to the rest of the list:<br>
In Waltham Abbey church is a Miles Graye II bell (1668), the
treble from of a set of three originally from Pattiswick in Essex.
Its now hammer-rung as a service or sanctus bell, and brings the
tower's total complement of bells up to 14. All three of the Essex
churches shortlisted to become the cathedral of the new diocese of
Essex, formed about a century ago, had rings of twelve installed
in anticipation of the outcome.<br>
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I could see both Peacemaker and Bastard as being good names for
bells!<br>
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Lawrence Greenall<br>
Waltham Abbey Hysterical & Operatic Society<br>
oops - I mean -<br>
Waltham Abbey Historical Society</font>
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