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[Samuel M. Austin]

Hi All,
just wondering if anyone knows about two bells in Liverpool.
One is in Fazakerley Town Hall, Incribed Potts of Leeds 1891. About 15cwt in 
F
The second is in St Aloysious RC Huyton with Roby, I believe it is big but 
cant get access to it.

Sam






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> 1. Fw: Harry Stokes, bellhanger
> From: "David Bryant" <djb122 at y...>
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> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 22:58:40 -0000
> From: "David Bryant" <djb122 at y...>
>Subject: Fw: Harry Stokes, bellhanger
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>Hello All,
>
>I recently received the following email from Mr Roger Stokes, who is the
>Great Grandson of the bellhanger Harry Stokes. I thought both his email and
>its attachments are likely to be of interest to a number of people besides
>myself. The attachments are rather large so I'll upload them to the 
>pictures
>section of the Yahoo page. Does anyone know anything about the 'Hooper'
>mentioned in the email?
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>David
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Roger Stokes" <rstokes at w...>
>To: <djb122 at y...>
>Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 7:09 PM
>Subject: Harry Stokes, bellhanger
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>Dear David,
>
>Whilst doing a search on the internet for variants on the Stokes family I
>stumbled across your website which contains references to our family. I
>myself am the GGson of Harry Stokes (the 1st.), who was later followed by
>Harry Stokes (2nd.) and later my late father also Harry Stokes! However he
>was not a bellhanger but a farmer. My line of the family have lived in the
>village since 1535, and we have a family tree back to then!
>
>I looked at your entry on West Buckland, and see that you were requiring
>some information on the 1902 bell repairs. I have all the day books of the
>bellhanging and general repairs for a period from approx. 1898 - 1930's, 
>and
>have looked up the West Buckland entry which was dilligently recorded, as
>was everything those days. I have attached a shrunken down scan of this
>entry which may be of interest to you. It is still rather large for e-mail,
>but if made smaller becomes inelligible. The full size copy is quite clear,
>and if you wanted one I would be happy to send you one.
>
>I have also attached a picture of the Stokes Bellhanging team of 1906, 
>which
>may be of interest to you. The team travelled what were great distances in
>those days, and I believe that they may have done some work on York 
>Minster.
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>Prior to 1900, I believe that HS 1st. was in partnership with a chap called
>Hooper, but I do not have any detail of this. If you have any I would be
>interested to know the details.
>
>Whilst I am not a campanologist, my mother was the daughter of William
>Arthur Hughes of the Whitechapel Foundry, and my cousin (as you probably
>well know) carries on the business. He is of course Alan Hughes. My mother
>and father originally met due to the contact between the two families - so
>there you are!
>
>In 1999 I compiled a book "Woodbury -the Twentieth Century Revisited" to
>record all the available old photographs of the period. I currently now 
>have
>a digital collection of some 1500+. Amongst those are a few "bell" ones, 
>and
>some of Harry Stokes workshop here in Woodbury. However, somewhere in my
>loft I probably have the internal measurements of the towers of half the
>churches in the country!
>
>I like you am currently trying to put together a website - mine of Woodbury
>today and yesterday. At the moment there are approx 100 old Woodbury
>postcards on line, but I hope to add many more in due course. It all takes
>time in between everything else!
>
>Hope the attached is of interest.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Roger Stokes
>Sunnybank
>The Arch
>Woodbury
>Exeter
>Devon UK.
>EX5 1LL.
>Tel: (+44) 01395 232350 (Home)
>Tel: (+44) 01395 232276 (Park)
>e-mail: rstokes at w...
>web: www.webbersfarm.co.uk
>web: www.woodbury-devon-uk.eclipse.co.uk
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