<div dir="auto">🙂</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 25 Mar 2020, 09:42 Mike Chester, <<a href="mailto:mikechester@hotmail.com">mikechester@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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?</div>
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The alternative is a chime to a ring. They are not in that list either</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> 25 March 2020 09:37<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Bell Historians] Auckland</font>
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<div dir="auto">Â Is s transfered ring correct, in there previous installation they were not a "ring".</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Wed, 25 Mar 2020, 08:58 Mike Chester, <<a href="mailto:mikechester@hotmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">mikechester@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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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.</div>
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<a href="https://www.stmatthews.nz/bishop-selwyns-bells" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.stmatthews.nz/bishop-selwyns-bells</a><br>
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This states:</div>
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"<span style="background-color:initial;font-size:14px">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>
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<span style="margin:0px;outline:0px;background:0px 0px;font-size:14px">Funding for the bells was the work of Mrs Selwyn aided by Lady Lucy Herbert and her friends.</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;outline:0px;background:0px 0px;font-size:14px">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
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<span style="margin:0px;outline:0px;background:0px 0px;font-size:14px">In 1906, the bells, in their original oak frame, were re-installed in the tower of St Matthew-in-the-City. "</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;outline:0px;background:0px 0px;font-size:14px">Does this make them a transferred ring? They are not in the lists as such.</span></p>
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