Liverpool Cathedral Bells

[jimhedgcock]

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> > There is another story about Liverpool Cathedral. Some feel very 
> > stongly that it is true and people also feel very strongly that 
it 
> is 
> > rubbish.
> > 
> > When the bells were hoisted into the tower, the 9th bell fell 
from 
> > the hoist, dropped all the way through the bell traps, killed two 
> > blokes and smashed on the floor of the nave. The bell hangers 
were 
> > very embarressed at this and got some sort of injunction that it 
> > could not be published what had happened. The bell was then 
recast 
> > with the original date on.
> > Apparently there was a blank page in the Liverpool Echo where the 
> > story was going to be published and it was stopped going to print 
> at 
> > the last minute.
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If I wanted to be scurrilous about this, I could say that the report 
contains one inaccuracy in that it was the tenor that crashed to the 
floor. And that in fact Whitechapel were unable to recast the bell 
and it was sent to Loughborough for recasting. How do I know - see 
Bell Ringing by John Camp Snr. photo opposite page 109 ' Enmmanuel 
the tenor bell of Liverpool Cathedral on the tuning machine at the 
Loughborough Bell Foundry'. Also Bell Tales by Stan Smith page 
10 'Some famous bells have been cast at Loughborough ----. The 
foundry are proud of producing the 82cwt. Emmanuel tenor bell of 
Liverpool Cathedral- the heaviest round-ringing bell still in use in 
England'. 
Presumably there were other heavier round-ringing bells that are no 
longer in use.
Does the two different sources make my story true?


> > 
> > 
> > 
> > --- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, "jimhedgcock" 
> > <jameshedgcock at h...> wrote:
> > > --- Doesn't alter the fact that the cross is in the same place!
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, "Ernie Runciman" 
<ernie at m...> 
> > > wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > > The Pro- Cathedral stood where Woolworth's Store (? - 
> memory 
> > is 
> > > > > failing!)is now. 
> > > > 
> > > > When were you last in Liverpool. That bracnh opf Woolworths 
> > closed 
> > > > in the 1970's.