[Bell Historians] Gilletts and Taylors

[David Bryant]

> Christ Church, Elbow Park, Calgary are a mixed Gilletts / Taylors
> ring. They were cast in 1955, I think (based on reading the
> inscriptions on the web a few moments ago). When I rang there I was
> told that the order was placed with Gilletts but that G stopped
> casting bells as the work was in progress. As a result the back three
> were cast in Croydon and the front five at Loughborough. I do not
> know where they were tuned.

They will have been tuned at Croydon - Taylor's only supplied Gilletts
with the unfinished castings.

David