<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> </head> <body><div class="auto-created-dir-div" dir="auto" style="unicode-bidi: embed;"><style>p{margin:0}</style><div>Hello Chris,</div><div><p><br></p><p>thanks for this. Will watch them.</p><p><br></p><p>I'm thinking of writing something for the RW about Richard Smith's articles.</p><p><br></p><p>At one extreme you could say that this is a good examle of a new dataset being mined in a not particularly valid way, given that the bells have to have survived to be in the sample. Will this become even less valid if he looks at individual founders, given that survival may possibly be related to quality.</p><p><br></p><p>Another point is that by no means all of the output of foundries was for churches in this country, which he partially acknowledges in terms of his analysis being only for bells in Dove. But equally important for Mears is possibly the Canadian business, and for Warners clock and school bells and for Taylors and G&J carillons. A large carillon has as many bells as seven or eight change ringing rings.</p><p><br></p><p>What do you think?</p><p><br></p><p>best wishes,</p><p><br></p><p>Phil<br></p></div><br><blockquote style="margin: 0 auto; padding: 0 2em; border-left:2px solid #00ADE5; white-space: pre-wrap "><br><br>------ Original Message ------<br>From: pickford5040@gmail.com<br>To: "'Bell Historians Mailing List'" <bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk><br>Sent: Sunday, 18 Apr, 21 At 09:29<br>Subject: [Bell Historians] Upcoming talks<br><br><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">If anyone is interested, I’m doing three new bell history talks in the new month or so.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">The first (for the Bedfordshire Association) is next Wednesday at 7.30pm. It’s “Exploring Bedfordshire belfries with Chris Pickford”. It's been advertised on the BACBR website as follows: <a href="https://www.bacbr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Wednesday-21-April-Online-talk-Chris-Pickford.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.bacbr.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Wednesday-21-April-Online-talk-Chris-Pickford.pdf</a>. The link for singing up is <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-bedfordshire-belfries-with-chris-pickford-tickets-149406574085" target="_blank">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-bedfordshire-belfries-with-chris-pickford-tickets-149406574085</a> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">The other two haven’t been advertised externally yet, but the dates (and hosts) are:</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Wednesday 28 April (St Martin’s Guild) – “Brummagem bells – the history and work of Blews, Barwell and Carr”</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Thursday 20 May (Ely Diocesan Guild) – “The St Neots foundry 1733-1821”, looking at the bellfounding and other activities of Joseph Eayre, Islip Edmunds, Edward Arnold and Robert Taylor </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I’ll post further details of these future talks when they are available</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: rgb(31,56,100);">Chris Pickford</span></i></b><span style="color: rgb(31,56,100);"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(47,84,150);">Kinver (UK)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(47,84,150);">Tel: 07811-453525</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(47,84,150);">e-mail: </span><span style=""><a href="mailto:pickford5040@gmail.com"><span class="wt_Email">pickford5040@gmail.com</span><span></span></a> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><hr>_______________________________________________<br>
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