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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>They had certainly been hung with ringing fitting before they were sent to Whitechapel in in 1971 for tuning and the supply of new ringing fittings. As to the date of the old fittings I don’t know.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Richard<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><img width=321 height=144 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D602F0.9EB29A80" alt="cid:image001.png@01D40F8F.50BED290"></span><span lang=EN-AU style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";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"'> Bell-historians [mailto:bell-historians-bounces@lists.ringingworld.co.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mike Chester<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 25 March 2020 5:41 PM<br><b>To:</b> Bell Historians Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Bell Historians] Auckland<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>That is one thing that I am asking for information about. From the description is seems that they were at least hung in a ringing frame, as this was reused, but were there any ringing fittings?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The alternative is a chime to a ring. They are not in that list either<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Mike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="98%" align=center></div><div id=divRplyFwdMsg><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> Bell-historians <bell-historians-bounces@lists.ringingworld.co.uk> on behalf of Roderic Bickerton <rodbick@gmail.com><br><b>Sent:</b> 25 March 2020 09:37<br><b>To:</b> Bell Historians Mailing List <bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Bell Historians] Auckland</span> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal> Is s transfered ring correct, in there previous installation they were not a "ring".<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, 25 Mar 2020, 08:58 Mike Chester, <<a href="mailto:mikechester@hotmail.com">mikechester@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Being at home for however long this takes, I have been randomly trawling the internet and have come across a history of St Marthew's bells in Auckland, NZ.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="https://www.stmatthews.nz/bishop-selwyns-bells" target="_blank">https://www.stmatthews.nz/bishop-selwyns-bells</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>This states:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>"</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The eight bells were cast by John Warner & Sons Ltd at Spitalfields, London in 1862. They were cast for the 1862 International Exhibition, London.</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2A25'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='outline:0px;background-position-x:0px;background-position-y:0px'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2A25'>Funding for the bells was the work of Mrs Selwyn aided by Lady Lucy Herbert and her friends.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='outline:0px;background-position-x:0px;background-position-y:0px'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2A25'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='outline:0px;background-position-x:0px;background-position-y:0px'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2A25'>They arrived in Auckland in 1863, aboard the good ship "Nimroud", and hung for many years in a wooden tower at Bishopcourt, Parnell. No. 4 bell was returned to London and recast by Warners in 1883.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='outline:0px;background-position-x:0px;background-position-y:0px'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2A25'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='outline:0px;background-position-x:0px;background-position-y:0px'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2A25'>In 1906, the bells, in their original oak frame, were re-installed in the tower of St Matthew-in-the-City. "<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='outline:0px;background-position-x:0px;background-position-y:0px'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2A25'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='outline:0px;background-position-x:0px;background-position-y:0px'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2A25'>Does this make them a transferred ring? They are not in the lists as such.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='outline:0px;background-position-x:0px;background-position-y:0px'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2A25'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='outline:0px;background-position-x:0px;background-position-y:0px'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#2C2A25'>Mike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br>Bell-historians mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk" target="_blank">Bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk</a><br><a href="https://lists.ringingworld.co.uk/listinfo/bell-historians" target="_blank">https://lists.ringingworld.co.uk/listinfo/bell-historians</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></div></body></html>