[Bell Historians] Southwark cathedral

[David Bryant]

>I agree entirely. It's sad that it is no longer possible to quote nice,
>exact weights for all the bells, but the plain and simple truth is that the
>front six have not been weighed in their current form.

In fact, surely the weights of 8,9,10,11 aren't going to be correct any more 
either. Removal of the cast-in staple and drilling of a centre hole will 
have reduced the weight by a noticeable amount, specially with the larger 
bells. How many pounds would this remove from a bell as large as the 11th?

David