[Bell Historians] transport

[David Bryant]

>When two of Dauntsey's bells were recast in 1858 they were taken to Wootton
>Bassett for onward transmission to Mears at Gloucester. Does anyone know
>whether they would have gone by canal or rail?

Probably rail by this date. It is reckoned that the first bells to be 
transported by rail were the 1840 Mears ring of thirteen for Leeds Parish 
Church.

David