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<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Bell Historians] Carrs of Smethwick</font>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">It’s a complicated story, but the firm continued with some involvement in bells and bellhanging well into the 1950s – but by then (and from the later 1920s
really) it was only a small sideline to a business dealing mainly with other metalwork. The firm finally closed down in 1963/4 and the site was sold for redevelopment.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">As a simple answer to Mike’s main query, Bill Butler says in his accou8nt of the firm (in
<i>Musical Handbells</i> pp.96-102):</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal">Their advertisements for church bells and bell hanging continued weekly in
<i>The Bell News </i>till the final issue of that paper on Christmas Day 1915, and in copies of
<i>The Ringing World </i>from the first in 1911 to the 999th in May 1930. After this date they ceased to take an interest in bells, although the firm was still advertising in trade journals up to 1960.<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#1F497D"></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">The bellfounding side was really the speciality of J.J.W. Carr who was in charge from the time of Charles Carr’s death in 1891 until his own demise in 1924.
After that the firm cast very few bells, although J.J.W. Carr had supervised the casting of a 35 cwt bell for Demerara only shortly before his death. The sale of his 1891 theatre bells – a maiden peal of six of which he was especially proud! – to Pensnett
and the addition of two ill-tuned trebles there in 1926 really marked the end.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">I know of no
<i>dated</i> bells after 1926 (Pensnett and Small Heath / Sheldon as Mike says), but they supplied a blank bell to Norton (Stourbridge) in 1929.</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">Taylors provided some bells for Carr’s (and its subsidiary the Non-ferreous casting company) in the late 1930s, but the orders always stated “please do not
cast your name on this bell” and Taylors were never told where the bells were to be hung. Tyseley is one example, 1939</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">But they continued with Bellhanging, doing work (mostly minor) at Aston Cantlow (1932), Aymestrey (1938), Wolverley (19148) and Cookley (1949) – and they tendered
for St.Chad’s, Birmingham, in 1939. A letter to Taylors regarding Ipsley bells in 1957 came from V.H. Horsley who was church treasurer and also a director of Carr’s. By then the Smethwick firm, still proud of its bell work, had more or less given up any interest
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">There’s a lot of work behind this hasty summary. One day, I might find time to write it all up!</span></p>
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