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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. <div>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.</div><div>After Phil they were looked after by Bill Theobald I believe and the Whitechapel Foundry band. Bill's funeral was also there I recall.</div><div> Is there a band of any sort there now?<br><div><br></div><div class="mb_sig">AWRW</div>
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<p style="color: #AAAAAA; margin-top: 10px;">On 02/02/2021 01:25:23, Graham John <graham@changeringing.co.uk> wrote:</p><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">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<br></div></blockquote></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br />
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