[Bell Historians] Cast maker's plates from Mears & Stainbank.

[David Cawley]

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Founders' name-plates - the most favoured location seems to have been the E=
llacombe Chiming Apparatus. They were very much a Victorianism, carried ove=
r. Many founders used them, but they are not un-collectable. I recently acq=
uired a Warner one from St Mark's, Jersey, where I had avised on the bell i=
nstallation in 1970, the bells being rehung in 1974. The old Ellacombe was =
chucked up in the church roof. I mentioned its former existence to Jack Wor=
rall, who knew exactly where it had gone and kindly rescued the plate and g=
ave it to me - 30 years on! It is a standard one, in this case of cast iro=
n, painted black. Warners did do some quite elaborate ones with the Royal A=
rms - there was a beuatiful one at Ash-by-Sandwich, Kent until the bells we=
re removed for rehanging & augmentation. I was amongst the KCA members part=
icipating in the work and it was still there when bells and frame had gone,=
but not when they returned. Most plates that I have seen look as if they =
are cast iron or brass but the ones on Harrington's tubes are of the same m=
etal as the tubes (80:20). Mears & Stainbank plates are I think not all tha=
t common.

DLC
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Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 11:29 PM
Subject: [Bell Historians] Cast maker's plates from Mears & Stainbank.


At my home tower,Holt, Wiltshire, we have a bell-metal? founders=20
plate which was discovered in the bell-chamber, and is now displayed=20
in the ringing chamber. It reads "MEARS AND STAINBANK BELL-FOUNDERS,=20
WHITECHAPEL RD.,LONDON", the background being green, and was=20
obviously supplied when the bells were re-cast in 1925.=20
Four questions. Are plates like these common? Were they peculiar to=20
Whitechapel? Are they in fact bell-metal? & was the background always=20
green?
Phil Lucas


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