<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp89a2812yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">But it could not have been part of the 9-bell chime installed in the Highmoor Bell Tower in the same year, because those bells were made by Van Aerschodt of Belgium, and they weren't scrapped until 1920. Where else in Highmoor might this little bell have been hung?<br></div><div><br></div><div class="ydp89a2812signature"><div style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">Carl Scott Zimmerman, Campanologist <br>Saint Louis, Missouri, USA -<br> - 19th c. home of at least 37 bell founders or resellers <br>Tel. +1(314)821-8437 <br>Webmaster for www.TowerBells.org<br> * Avocation: tower bells<br> * Recreation: handbells<br><div> * Mission: church bells</div><div><span class="ydpb3b8dea8pasted-link"><span class="ydp73140da6pasted-link">Webmaster for www.TSCChapter134.org</span></span><br></div></div></div></div>
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On Monday, February 3, 2020, 11:08:47 AM CST, Mike Chester <mikechester@hotmail.com> wrote:
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<div>http://www.carlisleshistory.co.uk/page42.htm</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Says it was cast for Highmoor House, 1884.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Mike</div>
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<div class="ydp296dd72fyiv5531779165yqt4502595151" id="ydp296dd72fyiv5531779165yqt05325"><div dir="ltr" id="ydp296dd72fyiv5531779165divRplyFwdMsg"><font style="font-size:11pt;" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Bell-historians <bell-historians-bounces@lists.ringingworld.co.uk> on behalf of Julian Perfect <julianperfect@hotmail.com><br clear="none">
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 3, 2020 5:02:17 PM<br clear="none">
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<b>Cc:</b> RON EAST <ronald.east@btinternet.com><br clear="none">
<b>Subject:</b> [Bell Historians] Mears and Stainbank Re: Bell history</font>
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You may already be aware of this. Mears and Stainbank was a former company/trading name for the Whitechapel Bell Foundry ("WBF"), see <a shape="rect" href="http://www.whitechapelbellfoundry.co.uk/Past.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.whitechapelbellfoundry.co.uk/Past.htm</a> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;">and
other pages on the website. </span></div>
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When WBF closed the foundry in Whitechapel three years ago, they stated (see "Our records" at, <a shape="rect" id="ydp296dd72fyiv5531779165LPNoLP113114" href="http://www.whitechapelbellfoundry.co.uk/news.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.whitechapelbellfoundry.co.uk/news.htm</a> )</div>
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that their archive was being transferred to the London Metropolitan Archives. </div>
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If you are interested, you can search the LMA collections catalogue at, <a shape="rect" id="ydp296dd72fyiv5531779165LPlnk956193" href="https://search.lma.gov.uk/scripts/mwimain.dll/256199115?UNIONSEARCH&APPLICATION=UNION_VIEW&LANGUAGE=144&simple_exp=y&HISTORY=LMA_DESCRIPTION&ERRMSG=[WWW_LMA]err.htm&REPORT=WEB_SUMMARY" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a></div>
<a shape="rect" id="ydp296dd72fyiv5531779165LPlnk498655" href="https://search.lma.gov.uk/scripts/mwimain.dll?logon&application=UNION_VIEW&language=144&file=[WWW_LMA]home.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://search.lma.gov.uk/scripts/mwimain.dll?logon&application=UNION_VIEW&language=144&file=[WWW_LMA]home.html</a>
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<div dir="ltr" id="ydp296dd72fyiv5531779165x_divRplyFwdMsg"><font style="font-size:11pt;" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Bell-historians <bell-historians-bounces@lists.ringingworld.co.uk> on behalf of RON EAST via Bell-historians <bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk><br clear="none">
<b>Sent:</b> 03 February 2020 16:15<br clear="none">
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<b>Cc:</b> RON EAST <ronald.east@btinternet.com><br clear="none">
<b>Subject:</b> [Bell Historians] Bell history</font>
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</span><div>Could anyone discover the history of this bell, please? </div>
<div>It was hung outside St Aiden’s Church in Carlisle in 1901. The only inscription (no date) is ‘Mears and Stainbank’. It is 46<span>¾</span> inches in diameter and sounds the note Eb (633.5 Hz - 31 cents sharp). Weight about 16 cwt. </div>
<div>It may have been cast originally for Highmoor House in Wigton, Cumbria.</div>
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