[Bell Historians] Re: Fwd: bellfounder/clockmakers

[A Willis]

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Offen [mailto:richard.offen at o...]
Sent: 03 March 2004 22:52
To: bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Bell Historians] Re: Fwd: bellfounder/clockmakers


--- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, Carl S Zimmerman
<csz_stl at s...> wrote:
> The following inquiry came to me today, and I don't have a good
> answer. The inquirer is aware that G&J was a maker of both tower
> clocks and tower bells. Is that dual capability unique to them?


The Bilbies of Chew Stoke were both bell-founders and clock makers. There
is a book on them, which IIRC is called 'The Bilbies and the Chew Valley
Clock Makers; Roy Rice is one of the authors.

AW