[Bell Historians] Re: William Eldridge

[Peter Whisker]

Chertsey Museum have an Eldridge bell hanging outside their front door!
However, I don't think that it is even known for certain where the foundry
was located in Chertsey, unless someone can put me right on this.

It does seem strange that we only have one Eldridge bell - all the others
being London bells from Robert Mot onwards, and the 6th being a Wokingham
casting of 1380.

Any details on the Eldridges would of course be of great interest to us.

Thanks
Peter Whisker
Chertsey

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "grhaywarduk" <doublehandler at h...>
To: <bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 10:37 PM
Subject: [Bell Historians] Re: William Eldridge


> IIRC Eldridge also had branch foundries at Reading and somewhere in
> Warks(?). I did some research into the families with the aid of
> Canons Clayton and will dig out what we found.
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> I believe that the last Eldridge ended up penniless and had to sell
> his foundry to Rudhall(?). Someone correct me if I'm talking
> rubbish - I'm not really a historian!
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> GRH
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