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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>There is certainly a band at St Botolph without Aldgate (must get that Dove’s Guide entry updated…) and there are – ordinarily – regular practices on a Friday together with some midweek service ringing. I remember attending Phil Corby’s memorial service there too.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>The ASCY used to hold regular practices here 2 or 3 times a year after the rehang, the first being on 17 Jan 1967.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>DrL<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> Bell-historians <bell-historians-bounces@lists.ringingworld.co.uk> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Andrew Wilby<br><b>Sent:</b> 02 February 2021 12:09<br><b>To:</b> Revd David Cawley via Bell-historians <bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Bell Historians] ringing at st Botolph Aldgate before 1966<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>If I remember correctly, Phil Corby knew the Rector through being on the Board of the Sir John Cass Foundation of perhaps via the Woolmen. He pledged himself to the Rector that if they were hung full circle he would see that they were rung on Sundays. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>That turned out to be a big undertaking. There was little support from CY circles as all available arms were in use at St Paul's and Cornhill at the same time.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>After Phil they were looked after by Bill Theobald I believe and the Whitechapel Foundry band. Bill's funeral was also there I recall.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> Is there a band of any sort there now?<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>AWRW<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;margin-top:15.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;min-width: 500px'><p style='margin-top:7.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#AAAAAA'>On 02/02/2021 01:25:23, Graham John <graham@changeringing.co.uk> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>David Cawley wrote:<br><br>"Enter Phil Corby, and it is to him that we owe the ringing peal<br>rather than the chime which was being envisaged. Whitechapel did a<br>super job tuning them. Sadly, the tower movement was not cured, the<br>fault of the tower rather than the bell installation. Phil arranged<br>that bands from the ASCY, SRCY, ULSCR, and MCA should ring on<br>successive Sundays, a rota that was adhered to until the MCA took over<br>the running of the tower. There was even enough money to permit the<br>addition of the electronic chimes for the weekday services!"<br><br>Yes, indeed. The West Wickham (Bill Hughes' home tower) ringers, of<br>which I was one, used to go and ring at Aldgate once a month during<br>the early 1970s as part of Phil's rota.<br><br>Graham John<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Bell-historians mailing list<br>Bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk<br>https://lists.ringingworld.co.uk/listinfo/bell-historians<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></blockquote><div id=DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellspacing=3 cellpadding=0 style='border:none;border-top:solid #D3D4DE 1.0pt'><tr><td width=55 style='width:41.25pt;border:none;padding:9.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient" target="_blank"><span style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=46 height=29 style='width:.4833in;height:.3in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D6F971.705E3090" alt="Image removed by sender."></span></a><o:p></o:p></p></td><td width=470 style='width:352.5pt;border:none;padding:9.0pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#41424E'>Virus-free. <a href="http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient" target="_blank"><span style='color:#4453EA'>www.avg.com</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>