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Cheers Dave, as we are hoping to have a lie in tomorrow i think I might give st Michael's a miss thanks for the offer though hopefully I might be able to pay you a visit when I'm next in the area!. </div>
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Regards Oliver Lee</div>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="">George Hawkins was a ringer at St Michael’s and Bath Abbey until he died a few years ago. He had rung at St James and at St Andrew’s pre-WW2. Neither were unringable prior to being destroyed in the Bath blitz. Tomorrow
you might manage a ring at Christ Church, Julian Rd (9.15-10am) and St Michaels, Broad St (if enough ringers 10.05-10.30) prior to ringing at the Abbey. Walking between towers is a few minutes and St Michael’s less than 5 minutes to the Abbey.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">This weekend I'm going over to bath for my cousin's wedding and naturally I have researching a couple of the towers locally as well as the abbey which I will be ringing at this Sunday for morning service, I have however noticed that there
isn’t much anywhere about the 24cwt eight which where destroyed in the blitz and I was if anyone on list might have rung with older ringers who might have remembered them?. My 1936 B and W report gives them as having a regular practice ( where they only seem
to have rung grandsire ) but for whatever reason they don't seem to have been that popular for peal ringing with the last recorded one being in may 1931 !. </p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">P/s the same also seems to be true with the rudhall eight at st James ( also destroyed) and as there is no mention as to weather ringing was possible I'm tempted to believe that they where unringable</p>
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