[Bell Historians] Cathedrals and bells (a different angle)

[David Bryant]

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From: LOVE, Dickon [mailto:DrLove at s...]
While this is true, quite often the bottom line is whether there is any
interest in having the booklet published. There used to be a book on the
bells by David Cawley and Anne Oakley (written in the days when Canterbury
bells sounded glorious across the City). Once the print run had finished and
the book became necessarily out of date, the Cathedral Book Shop refused to
invest in a new book. There was no shortage of enthusiasm by people to put a
booklet together - if you can't get a publisher, then you don't get a
booklet.

Canterbury therefore made do with a bad A4 photocopy of the details of the
bells sold for about 10p each - all very dry stuff!

[djb122] Depends on the profile of bells within the cathedral, I suppose. I
can't help thinking that this may be unusual, though - the cathedrals with
booklets usually seem to be the ones with one or more ringers interested in
bell history. Incidentally, David Potter intends at some point to write un
updated version of his York book - quite a lot more bells have been
installed since it was written. I think he's waiting until the stocks of the
current one run low, and there are still several hundred left at the moment.

David
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