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<div>John Mills were once founders of all sorts of things like Warners.</div>
<div>They now do bespoke castings in brass mainly for the petro chemical industry like oil platforms.</div>
<div>I believe they have about 5 moulds for casting bells but they are of the "admiralty" pattern - not church bell shape.</div>
<div>They said that they would cast me new bells to that pattern in any metal that I chose.</div>
<div>I will put info up about church bells that they cast in C19 & C20 at a later date. It is no use asking them because all their old records are lost or destroyed.</div>
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<div>regards Howard Smith</div>
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From: Peter Rivet <peter@plrivet.plus.com><br>
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<div class="yiv0431298302MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;">John Mills of 509 Shields Road, Newcastle upon Tyne cast ships bells, or were doing so as recently as the 1970s : </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.businessmagnet.co.uk/company/johnmillssonnewcastleltd-104131.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">https://www.businessmagnet.co.uk/company/johnmillssonnewcastleltd-104131.htm</a></span></div>
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<div class="yiv0431298302MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;">They are a very long established firm and in the mid/late 19th century they cast a few church bells as well, for example at Ellingham (1864) and Doddington (1865) in Northumberland. According to correspondence I had with them they also used to cast things like brass lecterns.</span></div>
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