[Bell Historians] Big Ben

[Richard Offen]

> 
> It looks as though Warners were trying to get the bell as close as 
possible
> to the Houses of Parliament, and I do wonder why they would have 
wanted the
> bell to go to Cripplegate, when they didn't have room to cast it there
> themselves. 
> 
> Anne
>

I think it was lack of furnace capacity at Cripplegate that prevented 
the bell being cast there, rather than space.

I am inclined to agree with Stephen about Macdonald's book.   Having 
just re-read it, the book is rather repetitious in its use of facts (or 
non-facts as the case may be!) and language.   It is still an 
interesting account however.

Richard