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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">06.08 2018 <b>Alnwick
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Definitely not currently ringable - no wheels</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">All eight have stays
- tenor only without slider</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">In 1892, prior to a peal of Kent T.B. the bells had
not raised for a number of years.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Eight D.& N. members in 1900 who were excluded
from D.& N. membership in 1905 for non payment of subscriptions</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">My letter to Bell Historians <u>24/4/2007</u></span></div>
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had a short ringing history and the year 1901 was the last record that I have
of any ringing on the eight.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Maybe a
ringing meeting and a peal that year were so bad it shut the tower !</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">In any
event someone with a huge amount of clout in the town had the wheels sawn off
leaving only the two main upright spokes. </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">1,4 and 8
are by Charles and George Mears in 1846 and then J. Taylor cast 2,3,5,6,& 7 in 1874.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">When I
arrived in the North East in 1972 the story was that the tower was unsafe due
to the fact that there was a stream running under the tower on sandy soil thus
washing away the foundations. It has however never been established if there is
any "foundation" to this story. In fact perusal of the plans for the
Church show that this must have been known about as the Church is built on what
resembles the hull of a boat.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The
installation is on a substantial Taylor Grimthorp frame.</span></div>
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that the idea of selling the bells was mooted. I understand that someone found
out how much an 18cwt ring of eight would cost to install and imagined that the
scrap value would bring in scores of thousands of £s. The idea has since been
dropped.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Howard E. J. Smith - Newcastle Diocese bell
advisor.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">UPDATE</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Since
this letter I was informed by Norman Johnson that the bell wheels</span></div>
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lying against the Churchyard wall for maybe thirty years quietly rotting away.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The bells
would have been tremendously loud in the immediate vicinity of the Church due
to enormous louvres with large openings. The sound would reverberate round the
oblong square that the Church is situated in.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">In <u>2010</u>
I approached the Priest offering to repair the Ellacombe chiming rack. He was aghast
at the idea as he said it was as much as he could do not to be sued for the
noise that the clock chime made.</span></div>
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