[Bell Historians] RE: [Bell HistoriansPeal at Romsey

[Neil Skelton]

Actually, it's 212 years old!

Neil Skelton.
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Subject: [Bell Historians] RE: [Bell HistoriansPeal at Romsey


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> Sorry if this is old news.
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> From The Salisbury Journal, July 25th 1791
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> Monday last, a new and exceedingly musical peal of eight bells, cast by Mr
> Mears of Whitechapel, was opened at Romsey, by the Society of College
Youths
> from London, with a peal of Oxford Treble Bobs [sic], consisting of 5248
> changes, being the extent of thirteen courses, and which was completed in
> three hours 13 minutes, with that accuracy which distinguishes the
> performances of that company, and to the entire satisfaction of the
> inhabitants of the town, as well as a numerous concourse of hearers
> assembled from different parts of the country.
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> Anne Willis
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