[Bell Historians] William Starmer

[David Bryant]

> A letter from Peter Jordan of Bourneville refers to a William Wooding
> Starmer, it reports he lectured in campanology at Birmingham University,
it also
> states it was he who recommended John Taylor's foundry to George Cadbury
to
> produce the 22 bell 1906 carillon of which apparently only one bell
survives in the
> present 48 bell Bourneville instrument.

I think there is more than one Taylor bell left in the carillon - about
four, I think. The C immediately above the bass (Bb) is one.

David