[Bell Historians] 20th Century Founders

[Mike Chester <mike@m...>]

--- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, "David Bagley" <bells at r...> 
wrote:
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> Richard Bowditch/Matthew Higby
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> Arthur Jopp

Richard Bowditch/Matthew Higby were alive and still casting last time 
I checked!

Did Arthur Jopp or Walter Dobbie actually cast bells that are hung 
for ringing "in churches"? Also, I thought Walter was still alive 
and could therefore, technically, still cast bells.

On another point, wasn't Walter in the young person's peal of Bob 
Major in c.1934 that stood as a record for many years? Percy Stone, 
the one in shorts in the well known picture of the band, rings at my 
home tower and is still ringing peals. I hope to persuade him to 
ring one towards the end of the year to celebrate 70 years since his 
first peal. Not many ringers could claim to have done that!

Mike