[Bell Historians] Manchester Town Hall and Dates

[Chris Pickford]

The weights of the chime bells are in the BCS newsletter I mentioned - I'll
exchange them for confirmation of the date!

C

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Aspland" <aaspland at y...>
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Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 11:19 AM
Subject: RE: [Bell Historians] Manchester Town Hall and Dates


> Just to stir up the date thing a bit - Guernsey St Peter Port were cast in
> the year before their inscription date - of course everything had to be
> ready and finished before the commemoration of the liberation of the
> Islands. The date on an inscription of a bell cast for a specific event
may
> well not be the date of casting. However the Town Hall argument seems to
be
> a sort of retrospective celebration of the Jubilee if they were cast in
> 1937!
> Do we have the weights of all the chiming bells as well as the ringing
> peal?
> Andrew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Pickford [mailto:c.j.pickford at t...]
> Sent: 28 March 2002 14:34
> To: bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Bell Historians] Manchester Town Hall
>
>
> The 1936 date comes from Thow - but Jim Hedgcock (in commenting on my
Great
> bells list) assures me that the bells are dated 1937. The date 1936 (for
> King George V's silver Jubilee) is also the date given in an article in
the
> BCS Newsletter of Feb.1980
>
> It would be good to have independent confirmation, since there is
obviously
> some doubt. If Thow is wrong, then the error is likely to be
oft-repeated,
> as it is the most convenient reference book, but having checked my
> information again I'm starting to think he may be right
>
> CP
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "oakcroft13" <bill at h...>
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> Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 12:29 PM
> Subject: [Bell Historians] Manchester Town Hall
>
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> > Now come on, you guys. David Bryant's page on rings and chimes, and
> > the MUG website, both give the Town Hall as 1936. Michael Wilby's
> > site (and presumably Thow, though I haven't checked) gives them as
> > 1937. Which is it to be? Had I known the experts were falling out
> > like this, I would have looked at the inscriptions when I recorded
> > them last night.
> >
> > The devil is in the details!
> >
> > Bill H
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