Kensington

[alantaylor]

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Yes,and no Jim.

The last church on the site of the present church had 8 bells. The present =
9th was the tenor of the old 8. Warner's added the present tenor and treble=
(plus some tuning and recasting of other bells) and made them into a 10. T=
he 9th is a dreadful bell. 5 of the old 8 remain.

Alan
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From: jim phillips=20
To: bell historians=20
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 8:01 PM
Subject: [Bell Historians] St Stephen, Rosslyn Hill, Hampstead.


I rang on these bells in the fifties and DLC has confirmed what I had
thought. They were made as an octave with two trebles stuck on later, an=
d
it certainly showed. The trebles did not fit in at all! One practice ni=
ght
a group of the vintage Middlesex ringers turned up ie Sidney Wade,
Glasscock, Millar, Armstrong etc and set themselves up for a course of
Bristol on the back eight. I went outside to listen to some superb ringi=
ng
which told me that the back eight were a good octave and with perhaps a b=
it
of tuning would have made an excellent transplant in a tower that could t=
ake
them. I think these bells were in the key of D rather than Csharp.

Were St Mary Abbotts originally an eight? I heard the Middlesex ring the
back eight there at Richard F B Speed's wedding, and with some good ringi=
ng
at a measured pace they sounded rather grand.

Another senseless destruction was the Dobson of Downham Market octave at =
St
George's, Camberwell. With a reasonable band they played a pretty tune
particularly to Stedman triples. It was quite a live church in those day=
s
being very popular for weddings. The canal was still there at that time
with a very humped back bridge beside the church.



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