<div dir="ltr"><div>Here's some early references from the CC's collated newspaper extracts</div><div><i><br></i></div><div style=""><i>The Two new Trebles for St. Giles's (Norwich) here are so curiously hit by Mr. Newman the Founder, and the rest so greatly improved by the Direction of Mr. William Goddard, that </i>Every body<i> must acknowledge them to be the most Tuneable Peal of Eight in this City.</i><br>(Norwich Gazette, Sat. 30 Sept. 1738)<i></i></div><div style=""><br></div><div style=""><i>Whereas the Peal of Bells at Long-Stratton in Norfolk, have been lately put in Tune by the famous Mr. COLLETT of Diss, and are thought (by those that are very good Judges of Ringing) to be the most musical Peal of Five Bells anywhere near them; notwithstanding they were so very much out of Tune before...</i></div><div style="">(Norwich Gazette, Sat. 9 Feb. 1745 - advert)<i></i></div><div style="font-style:italic"><i><br></i></div><i>Yesterday the Drapers Company held their annual election dinner at their hall in Throgmorton Street. They went first to the parish church of St. Michael, Cornhill, upon which occasion the twelve fine bells in the steeple of the said church were rung for the first time since they have been new tuned.</i><br>(Lloyd’s Evening Post, Wed. 3 Aug. - Fri. 5 Aug. 1763)<div><br></div><div><i>Last Tuesday Morning a Peal of Five Thousand One Hundred and Thirty Grandsire Cators, (which lasted 3 hours and 40 minutes,) was compleatly Rung by the Nottingham Change Ringers upon the 10 Bells at Grantham, Lincolnshire, which are the only Peal of 10 in the County and allowed to be as compleat in all respects as any in the Kingdom; the 1st, 2d, 3d, 9th, and Tenor, are all new Bells, cast by Mr. Pack and Co. of White Chapel, London; the other 5 are part of the old set of 8, the new Tenor weighs 30 C. 26 lb. and her Pitch is in D – the Peal was Tuned and hung by Mr. John Wright of Nottingham.</i><br>(Leicester and Nottingham Journal, Sat. 23 Sept. 1775)</div><div><br></div><div><i>On Friday last the peal of eight bells at Chesterfield was opened by the Sheffield Society of Ringers, who on that occasion, as well as on all others, merited the greatest applause. The sixth bell which has been recast, is an exceedingly good one and very well answers the rest of the peal, which has been hung, tuned and put in order, by Thomas Hilton of Wath in Yorkshire.</i><br>(Derby Mercury, Fri. 6 Jan. 1775)</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 18 May 2026 at 19:48, Richard Smith 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:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">When did the practice of retuning rings of bells begin? I can't <br>
immediately think of a single instance where a ring was retuned before <br>
the twentieth century, though I find it extremely hard to believe there <br>
are no such examples, particularly when rings were remodelled? For <br>
example, when Kensington were topped and tailed by Warner's in 1879, <br>
were any of the retained Janaway bells retuned?<br>
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RAS<br>
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</blockquote></div><div><br clear="all"></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Many Thanks <br>Neal Dodge<br></div></div></div>