<div dir="auto">Hi Chris<div dir="auto">Thats interesting to hear that early Taylors handbells have been indexed. Is it possible to find out when the Almondsbury handbells were manufactured & supplied?</div><div dir="auto">Regards</div><div dir="auto">Gerry</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 14 Aug 2023, 17:34 c.j.pickford--- via Bell-historians, <<a href="mailto:bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk">bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-GB" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_1443612450892194798WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span>Taylors supplied a few large handbell sets to the USA, Canada and Australia – and perhaps other places overseas too. The dates are from the 1870s onwards, including several sets of three chromatic octaves and others (e.g. 47 and 125 bells). I’ve only had a very quick look at the index but there are certainly some big export orders<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>It’s only thanks to the efforts of one of the Museum volunteers – Chris Birkby – that we can now find information on these quite easily. He has been painstakingly indexing the sales daybooks, and his index now covers the years 1848 to 1914. So, for the first time handbell sales – and replacements and repairs – for particular places and clients can be traced. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:#1f3864">Chris Pickford</span></i></b><span style="color:#1f3864"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f3864">Archives team – Loughborough Bellfoundry Trust<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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