[Bell Historians] Bell in a mausoleum

[Michael Royalton-Kisch]

Indeed! Actually I keep saying that when I move on, I will ask for my ashes 
to be thrown into the molten metal of a bell being cast. There is an old 
legend in a chinese temple (feature in a TV programme a while ago) where, 
when their bell was recast, a child was thrown into the molten metal. This 
apparently made it sound sweeter. Maybe you could try this at the 
foundry?!?

>From: "Andrew Higson" <andrew_higson at ...>
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>Subject: Re: [Bell Historians] Bell in a mausoleum
>Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:34:54 +0100
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>There must be a dead ringer joke in there somewhere!
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>From: "Michael Royalton-Kisch" <mfrk24 at ...>
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>Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 3:19 PM
>Subject: [Bell Historians] Bell in a mausoleum
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> > Passing through Brompton the other day I took a look at the Mausoleum in
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> > cemetery there, and in one of them there was a sizeable bell with 
>cannons
> > (about 12cwt) on the floor surrounded by the shelves with coffins. Does
> > anybody know anything about it? I thought perhaps there would be some
> > clues
> > in the plaque above, if there was a ringer in the family, but there
> > wasn't...
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