[Bell Historians] Canon retaining bells

[Chris Povey]

Richard Offen wrote:-


> > "Why did the new bells have Doncaster heads instead of canons?
> Whitechapel
> > initially refused to cast bells with canons (hadn't done so since
> 1954 or
> > so, apparently)"
>
> Don't know where that rumour came from, but it's not true!
> Whitechapel cast quite a number of full size replicas of the Liberty
> Bell, complete with canons, for the American Bicentenary and some
> more since I believe.
>
> R

No rumour. I was involved with the project. That's what was said.

In fact, I misquoted the date. The write up of the augmentation in RW
(29/9/95) said 1952. This was written by one of the people who dealt
directly with Whitechapel.

Chris Povey