Perkins Institute for the Blind, Watertown, Mass. U.S.A.

[jimhedgcock]

Having 'stirred the coals' about Poona, does anyone have details 
about why these bells were installed in the Institute for the Blind?
I rang on these bells in 1986 but by then peals had stopped. In 1994 
I asked for permission to ring there again but permission was not 
forthcoming. The Boston ringers considered that I had been extremely 
lucky to have even got a reply. I remember them as being a pleasant 
Whitechapel eight of the early C20 hung in plain bearings. I remember 
that most of the huge louvres were shuttered. I passed the 
magnificent tower again last summer on a bus tour. It stood adorned 
in bright sunlight against a very dull and thunder cloud background. 
Very impressive. When were they last rung?