[Bell Historians] St Bride's

Mark Humphreys mark.humphreys at ...
Fri Jun 17 08:34:00 BST 2005


I'm still wondering why it's thought that ASCY and SRCY would have to work
together. ;)

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com 
> [mailto:bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Richard Offen
> Sent: 17 June 2005 04:42
> To: bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Bell Historians] St Bride's
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> --- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, "Benjamin Kipling" <bdk at b...>
> wrote:
> > >St Bride's, Fleet Street...
> > 
> > Probably not the right mailing list for this, but isn't it about
> time this historic location in the history of the exercise 
> had a decent number of proper bells in it once more? If the 
> College Youths and Cumberlands worked together, perhaps 
> London could get its first sixteen - after all, London has to 
> be the only place in the world that should comfortably be 
> able to support sixteen bell ringing but which doesn't have a 
> sixteen bell tower. Cutting the extra rope holes in the 
> concrete floor might be a pain in the bum, but I take it that 
> the tower is a reasonable size (especially by London 
> standards!) and that fitting them in shouldn't be too problematic.
> > 
> > Ben Kipling
> 
> I ring at a sixteen bell tower on an almost daily basis, but 
> must admit that I'm still not convinced about the overall 
> musicality of 
> sixteen. What about a decent twelve instead?!
> 
> R
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